THREE NEW SPECIES OF CRASSULACEAE FROM 
GUATEMALA. 
By J. N. Roser. 
In 1906 Mr. Wilham R. Maxon was sent to Guatemala by the 
United States Department of Agriculture. At my request he col- 
lected and sent to Washington living and herbarium specimens of all 
the Crassulaceae he could find. Three of these proved to be unde- 
scribed. They have all flowered here in Washington, and small 
plants are available for distribution. One of the illustrations here 
used was made from a photograph taken in Guatemala, while the 
other was taken from a potted plant in Washington. 
Echeveria guatemalensis Rose, sp. nov. PLATE XLVII. 
Stems branching especially at base, resembling somewhat both in habit and 
foliage Sedum prealtum, 10 to 15 em. high; leaves equally distributed on the 
stem, alternate, spreading nearly at right angles to the stem, fleshy but flattened 
and thinner than in most species of this genus, 2 to 4 em. long, 2 em. or Jess 
broad, spatulate, with a flat surface above, rounded at apex but with » decided 
mucro, rounded below into a broad petiole, pale green, slightly glaucous, the 
margius sometimes tinged reddish; flowering branch 20 to 30 em. long, from the 
axil of a leaf near the middle of the stem, reddish, bearing numerous reddish 
leaves: inflorescence an equilateral raceme bearing 20 or more flowers : pedicels 
3 to 4 mm. long; sepals linear, acute, spreading nearly at right angles to the 
pedicels; corolla buds broadly ovoid, acute, the corolla when open 10 mm, long 
and broad in) proportion, pinkish below, yellowish above, the lobes acute; 
stamens 10, shorter than the corolla. 
Collected by Mr. William R. Maxon, on Volean de Agua, at an altitude of 
2,700 to 8,000 meters, Guatemala, March 22, 1905 (no, 3726) and flowered in 
Washington, May, 1907, 
U. S. National Herbarium no. 3997158. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLVII.—A potted plant. Scale about 3. 
Echeveria maxonii Rose, sp. nov. PLATE XLVITI, 
Stems glabrous, frutescent, at first erect, becoming decumbent, 60 to SO em. 
long, naked below, very leafy near tips; leaves on young or slowly growing 
plants massed near the top but in vigorous shoots rather distant, standing at 
right angles to the stem, 3 to 10 em. long, spatulate, narrowed at base into a 
more or less definite petiole, rounded below, decidedly trowel-shaped above, 
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