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flowering branch slender, about 45 cm. high, leafy, the leaves 3 cm. long, thickish, rounded 

 below, flattish above, scattered, acute ; inflorescence either a simple equilateral raceme 18 

 cm. long or a panicle of erect racemes; flowers 12-15, scattered, axillary; pedicles short, 

 2-4 mm. long ; bractlets similar to sepals but smaller ; sepals thick, linear, spreading, 

 somewhat unequal, 5-8 mm. long ; corolla pale reddish-yellow, 5-angled, 10 mm. long. 



Type locality : Cosiquiriaclii, Chihuahua, Mexico. 

 Distribution : Chihuahua and Durango. 



21. Echeveria platyphylla Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 7. 1903. 



Acaulescent, glabrous throughout. Basal leaves in a dense rosette, somewhat rhom- 

 boid in outline, thinnish, pale-green, acuminate, tipped with a slender cusp, 4-5 cm. long, 

 about 2 cm. broad ; flowering branch 2-3 dm. long, bearing small scattered leaves below ; 

 flowers 15-20, arranged in an equilateral raceme ; pedicels 3 mm. long or less ; sepals 

 green, thickish, linear, erect, subequal ; corolla reddish-yellow, lobes 9 mm. long, tips 

 spreading even in age, tube very short, 1-2 mm. long. 



Typ^ locality : Valley of Mexico, Mexico. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. K 



22. Echeveria tenuis Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 7. 1903. 



Acaulescent, glabrous throughout. Leaves fleshy, numerous, forming a flattened 

 rosette, oblong, 4-5 cm. long, much narrowed at base, acute ; flowering branches slender, 

 at first nodding or scorpioid, their leaves linear or at least narrow, with a small rounded 

 spur at base ; flowers sessile or nearly so ; sepals very unequal, broadly ovate to linear ; 

 corolla 9 mm. long, the segments in dry specimens keeled on the back, with scarious mar- 



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gins,' not connivent in age, united for about one-fourth their length. 



Type locality : Near Monte Kscobedo, Zacatecas, Mexico. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



23. Echeveria Peacockii Croucher, Gard. Chron. II, 1 : 674. 1874. 



Cotyledon Peacockii Baker,, Gard. Chron. II. 2 : 258. 1874. 



Echeveria Desmetiana L. de Smet ; Morren, Belg. Hortic. 24 : 159. 1874. 



Cotyledon Desmetiana Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 1 : 389. 1880. 



Acaulescent. Basal leaves about 50 in a close rosette, obovate-spatulate, 5-7 cm. long, 

 3-4 cm. broad, white-glaucous, slightly red towards the top, faintly keeled on the back ; 

 flowering branch about 3 dm. long ; inflorescence a scorpioid spike, the lower flowers some- 

 what distant ; bracts two-spurred at base ; sepals linear, very unequal, thick ; corolla bright- 

 red, 12 mm. long ; stamens and styles one-fourth shorter than the corolla. 



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Type locality : Said to have been collected in "New Mexico," also said to be " Californian," 

 but doubtless sent from central Mexico. 

 Distribution : Mexico. 



24. Echeveria strictiflora A. Gray, PL Wright. 1 : 76. 1852. 



Cotyledon strictifiora Baker, in Saund. Ref. Bot. 1 : sub pi. 62, no. 17. 1869. 



Acaulescent. Basal leaves spatulate-lanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, acuminate, glabrous, 

 pale-green and slightly glaucous, the upper part with bright-red margins ; flowering 

 branches 2-4 dm. long, either simple or two-forked ; branches of inflorescence each form- 

 ing a secnnd raceme 1-1.5 dm. long; pedicels very short; sepals unequal, oblong; corolla 

 twice as long, * * scarlet. ' ' 



Type locality : Mountains west of the pass of Ivimpia. 

 Distribution : Northern Mexico and western Texas. 



25. Echeveria subsessilis Rose, sp. nov. 



Acaulescent or nearly so. Leaves forming a very dense rosette, much thicker than in 

 E. glauca^ ovate or obovate, 3-4 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. broad, only slightly narrower at base, 

 often obtuse, keeled above, obtuse to truncate, strongly mucronately tipped somewhat back 

 of the margin, very glaucous, rosy-margined; flowering stem slender, 15 cm. tall, leafy- 

 bracted above ; raceme secund, at first hooked ; bracts broadly ovate, 2-3-spurred at base ; 



