Tas. 5602. 
COTYLEDON rascrcuaris. 
Glaucous-blue Cotyledon. 
Nat. Ord. Crassunacex.—Decanpris PENTAGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, corolle tubo xqualis v. brevior. Petala 
5, sepius ad medium connata, erecta v. patentia. Stamina 10, rarissime 5, 
petalis sepius breviora. Sguamule varie. Ovarii carpella 5, in stylos 
filiformes attenuata, stigmatibus parvis; ovula ce. Folliculi 5, 00-spermi.— 
Herbz v. frutices, raro annua, ramis foliisque sepius crassis, sed habitu 
valde varie. Folia opposita v. alterna, petiolata v. sessilia. 
Corrievon fascicularis ; glaberrima, pallide albo-virens, glauca, foliis spar- 
sis sessilibus cuneato-obovatis cuspidatis planiusculis crassis, pani- 
cule ramis elongatis scorpioideis, floribus magnis pedicellatis pendu- 
lis, calycis lobis brevibus late ovatis acutis, corolle tubo calyce multo 
longiore subcylindraceo, lobis reflexis lineari-oblongis acutis. 
So far as these plants can be determined by descriptions, 
‘this appears without doubt to be the Cotyledon fascicularis 
of Aiton, and it further agrees with an unnamed drawing 
made many years ago at Kew of a Cotyledon that existed in 
the Garden at the date of the publication of ‘ Hortus Kew- 
ensis.’ It is a beautiful plant, a native of South Africa, from 
- whence the specimen here figured was sent by Mr. Cooper, 
to our friend W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., of Reigate, in 
whose fine collection of succulent plants it flowered in May 
1865. The habitats assigned in Harvey and Sonder’s ‘ Flora 
Capensis’ are chiefly in the Karroo districts. 
Descr. A glaucous very pale green erect shrub, one to two 
feet high, quite glabrous. Leaves scattered, two to three 
inches long, sessile, broadly obovate-cuneate, cuspidate, fully 
one-third of an inch in thickness, slightly concave, very pale 
glaucous-green, with a yellowish margin. lower-stalk ten 
to. twenty inches high, stout, terete, erect, paniculately 
branched ; branches erecto-patent, with scorpioid inflorescence. 
Bracts on the stem few, small, half an inch long, oblong, 
OCTOBER Isr, 1866. 
