Tas. 4986. 
ECHEVERIA cCANALICULATA. 
Channelled-leaved Echeveria. 
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Nat. Ord. CRASSULACEZ.—DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus ; laciniis foliiformibus, erectis. Corolla 
perigyna, quinquepartita ; laciniis erectis, crassis, rigidulis, nervo medio incrassato, 
basi subtrigonis acutis. Stamina 10, ime corollee inserta, inclusa. Squame 
hypogyne breves, obtuse. Ovaria 5, libera, unilocularia ; ovis ad suturam ven- 
tralem plurimis. Capsule folliculares, 5, in stylos subulatos attenuate, libere, 
intus longitudinaliter dehiscentes, polysperme.—Frutices Mexicani, carnosi ; 
foliis alternis, caulinis v. rosulatis suboppositis, integerrimis, enerviis ; floribus secus 
rachin v. secus cyne ramos sessilibus, coccineis v. flavis. Endl. 
Ecueveria canaliculata ; caule erecto crasso brevi, foliis rosulatis oblongis acu- 
minatis crassis carnosis glauco-rufescentibus superne canaliculatis, ramorum 
elongatorum floriferorum foliis remotis minoribus angustioribus basi gibbosis, 
racemis elongatis bracteatis, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis patenti-recurvis, corolla 
tubo brevissimo dilatato laciniis lineari-lanceolatis erectis apicibus subpaten- 
tibus. 
Among the Crassulaceous plants the species of Mcheveria, 
though straggling in habit when flowering, are eminently worth 
cultivating in our greenhouses. The flowers are often bright- 
coloured, and the leaves are very varied in form, thick and fleshy, 
more or less glaucous, and more or less tinged with red or purple. 
The present is not one of the least teresting, and makes a good 
appearance among its allies in the month of April in the succu- 
lent-house of the Royal Gardens of Kew. Plants of it were re- 
ceived from Mr. Staines from the Real del Monte mountains of 
Mexico, many years ago. I do not find any described species to 
correspond with it. Its nearest affinity is probably the 2. Scheertt 
of Dr. Lindley (Bot. Reg. vol. xxi. t. 27) ; but the rosulate leaves 
are widely different in the two, broadly spathulate in the latter, ob- 
long and tapering and deeply channelled in our present species. 
Drscr. Stem short, thick, between fleshy and woody, erect, 
marked with the scars of fallen leaves. When not in a flowering 
state, all the eaves are rosulate, crowded, patent, four to six inches 
long, oblong or somewhat strap-shaped, thick, fleshy, tapering 
JUNE Ist, 1857. 
