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erect, spreading at tips, united only at base ; tlie stamens opposite the petals attached near 

 the base, the alternate 5 free or nearly so; carpels 5, erect, distinct to the base or nearly so. 



Type locality : Mexico. 

 Distribution : Mexico. 

 Illustration : Baker, loc. cii. 



6. Echeveria pulvinata Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 5. S 1903. 



Cotyledon pulvinata Hook. f. Bot. Mag. pi. 7918. O 1903. 



Caulescent, 12 cm. high, naked below, somewhat branching. Young branches, leaves 

 and sepals covered with a dense white velvety pubescence ; leaves clustered in a rosette at 

 the top, obovate, tapering to a narrow base, 2.5-3 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, rounded at apex 

 and apiculate, 5-6 mm. thick ; flowers in a leafy raceme ; pedicels 10-12 mm. long, bracteo- 

 late ; sepals ovate, acute, unequal, the longest about half the length of the corolla ; corolla 

 scarlet, sharply 5-kngled, 18-20 mm. long, pubescent without, the lobes apiculate. 



Type locality : Tomellin Canon, Oaxaca, Mexico. 

 Distribution : Oaxaca. 



Illustration : Hook. f. loc. cit. 



7. Echeveria Pringlei (S. Wats.) Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



3: 6. 1903. 



Cotyledon Pringlei S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 25 : 148. 1890. 



Caulescent, decumbent, about 3 dm. long, pubescent throughout. Leaves oblanceolate, 

 5-10 cm. long, acute ; inflorescence an equilateral raceme ; pedicels 4-8 mm. long ; sepals 

 lanceolate, acimiinate, 12-16 mm. long ; petals about as long as sepals, free nearly to base, 



pubescent without ; stamens a third shorter than petals. 



Type locality : Dry shaded ledges of the barranca near Guadalajara, Mexico. 

 Distribution : Only known from a resticted region about Guadalajara. 



8. Echeveria nuda I^ind. Gard. Chron. 1856 : 280. 1856. 



Cotyledon nuda Baker in Saund. Ref . Bot. 1 : pi. 57. 1869. 



Stems about 1 dm. high. Iveaves glabrous, slightly glaucous-green, obovate-spatulate, 

 4-6 cm. long, mucronate, scattered towards the apex of the stem ; flowering branch 1-3 dm. 

 long, leafy below ; inflorescence an equilateral raceme, slightly compound below, 12-25- 

 flowered ; pedicels 1-3 mm. long ; sepals very unequal, terete or nearly so, acute, widely 

 spreading, very unequal, the longest about as long as the corolla ; corolla 10-12 mm. long, 

 decidedly 5-angled, pink below, yellowish above, the lobes acute and spreading. 



The type was collected by Botteri, who sent specimens to the lyondon Horticultural Society. 

 It has recently been collected by Dr. Purpus and Frank N. Meyer. Dr. Purpus's plant has recently 

 flowered and has been used in drawing up the description ; Pringle's no. 6779 from Tehuacan, 

 Puebla, has also been referred here. 



Type locality : Orizaba. 

 Distribution : Central Mexico. 

 Illustration : Baker, loc. cii. 



9. Echeveria montana Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 6. 1903. 



Caulescent. Leaves in a dense rosette at the top of the stem, orbicular or obovate, 

 somewhat narrowed below, glabrous, 5-6 cm. long; flowering stems somewhat granular- 

 roughened above, rather densely leafy-bracted below, 2-3 dm. long, many-flowered ; inflor- 

 escence an equilateral raceme ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long ; corolla 1 cm, long. 



. Type locality : Sierra de San Felipe, Mexico. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



10. Echeveria multicaulis Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 294. 1905. 



Caulescent, the lower part of stem roughened, naked, crowned near the top by a rosette 

 of obovate or spatulate leaves, the whole plant, including flowering branches, 2 dm. high 

 in cultivation, but said to reach 9-12 dm. high in the wild state. Leaves ^-^ cm. long, 

 12-20 mm. broad at -widest point, flattened, mucronate-tipped, glabrous, the margin ctnd 

 face more or less brightly colored ; flowering branches rose-colored, bearing scattered 



