REDISCOVERY OF ECHEVERIA CARNICOLOR. 
By J. N. Rose. 
When Britton and Rose published their revision of the Crassu- 
laceae* they recognized 58 species of Echeveria. Most of these they 
described from living material. It is probable that no one had ever 
before had so full a representation of this genus, since only 4 known 
species were wanting from their collections, viz, /. canaliculata 
Hook., 2. carnicolor Baker, 2’. bifida Lindl, and F. teretifolia DC. 
It isa great gratification now to be able to announce the rediscovery 
of one of these. . 
In October, 1906, Dr. C. A. Purpus, the well-known Mexican col- 
lector, sent to the National Museum an Echeveria from the Barranca 
de Tenampa, in the State of Vera Cruz. The three specimens sent 
were at once planted, but did not flower until January, 1908, when 
they were found to be #. carnicolor. This species has heretofore 
been known only from the specimens in the conservatory of the late 
W. W. Saunders, upon the basis of which it was described and figured 
by Dr. J. G. Baker, in 1870, in Saunders’s Refugium Botanicum.? 
As stated by Doctor Baker, this species is nearest 2’. Jurida, but it is 
a much smaller plant with weaker flower stems and fewer flowers. 
The leaves have a decided bluish tinge with hints of pink, and, espe- 
cially when young, have a decided metallic sparkle, perhaps caused 
by the papilla-like plates which cover their surfaces. The flowers 
are sometimes more numerous than in the plant figured by Doctor 
Baker, and the inflorescence is often compound. The plant is 
easily propagated, since the small leaves of the flowering stems 
readily fall off, soon rooting and forming new plants. In some 
respects it is a more attractive plant than “’cheveria lurida, and it 
may prove a useful plant for formal bedding. 
The accompanying illustration will give a good idea of the habit 
of a plant in flower. A description of this species follows: 
Echeveria carnicolor Baker. PLATE XLVI. 
Leaves 20 or more, forming a dense rosette, thickish but flattened, oblance- 
olate-spatulate, 3 to 4 cm. long, acute, with a bluish metallic luster; flowering 
stems 2 or 3, at first spreading, the upper part ascending or erect, very leafy 
below; flowers 6 to 15; sepals ovate to lanceolate, spreading; corolla orange- 
red, 12 mm. long. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLVI.—A potted plant. Secale about 3. 
aN, A. Flora, Vol. XXII, Pt. 7, pp. 1-74. 03: pl. 199, 1870. 
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