660 CRASSULACEiE. Echeveria. 



when dry ; stem erect, often with proliferous shoots ; cyme dicliotomous ; 

 flowers sessile, decandrous ; petals narrowly lanceolate, twice the length of 

 the calyx.— Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. l.p. 228. 



Oregon, on rocks, Douglas, Nutlall ! — (i) Stems a span high. Leaves 

 with scarious margins towards the base, thickened in the middle. 



* * Leaves terete. 



: 9. S. stenopetalum (Pursh) : glabrous, branching from the base ; stems 

 assurgent ; leaves crowded, compressed-subulate, closely sessile, acute ; 

 cymes 2-3-chotomous ; the flowers crowded on the short branches, nearly 

 sessile, decandrous; petals linear, acute, much longer than the calyx. — 

 Pursh, fl. l.'p. 234 ; DC. prodr. 3. p. 408; Hook.! fi. Bor.-Am. I. p. 228. 

 S. lanceolatum, Torr. .' in ann. lye. Neiv York, 2. p. 205. 



Along both sides of the Rocky Mountains. {Lewis, Dr. James ! Drum- 

 mond! NuttalU) — H Stems 4-6 inches high. Leaves short. Flowers 

 rather large, yellow. 



10. S. edide (Nutt. ! mss.) : "caespitose; leaves terete, subulate at the 

 apex, dilated at the base, glaucous; scape paniculately branched above, the 

 branches cymose ; flowers nearly sessile, decandrous ; petals lanceolate, 

 acute, about twice the length of the lanceolate sepals. 



"Edges of rocks and ravines, St. Diego, California. — li Scapes a foot 

 high, with a few short and distant subulate leaves ; the radical leaves 3-4 

 inches long, succulent. Flowers numerous, rather large. Scales at the 

 base of the carpels none. — A remarkable species, allied apparently to Eche- 

 veria teretifolia, but with white flowers tinged with green, the petals wholly 

 distinct, &c. The numerous scapes are gathered and eaten while young by 

 the savages." Nuttall. 



t Doubtful Species. 



11. ,S». hfematodes (Mill, diet.): stems erect, fleshy; leaves ovate, entire, 

 the uppermost clasping; corymb terminal. DC. prodr. 3. p. 404. 



Louisiana. — If Varies with white and purple flowers. DC. — Possibly 

 S. telephioides. 



3. ECHEVERIA. DC prodr. 3. p. 401, S^- mem. Crass, t. 5 4-6. 



Sepals 5, somewhat united at the base. Petals 5, erect, connivent, united 

 below, carinate. Stamens 10, shorter than the petals. Carpels 5, many- 

 seeded, tapering into subulate styles, with a short obtuse scale at the base 

 of each. — Shrubby or herbaceous (Mexican and Califomian) fleshy plants ; 

 the cauline leaves alternate or rosulate and somewhat opposite, entire. 

 Flowers scarlet and yellow. 



1. E. ccespitosa (DC): leaves rosulate-crowded, obscurely opposite, 

 tongue-shaped, very thick, glaucous ; corymb panicled ; the flowers nearly 

 sessile along the branches. DC. I. c. — Cotyledon cffispitosa, Haiwrth, misc. 

 p. 180. C.linguiformis, ^ii. Kew. {ed. 2) 3. p. 109. Sedum Cotyledon, 

 Jacq. eclog. 1. t. 17. 



California. — H Flowers yellow. 



2. E. pulverulenta (Nutt.! mss.): "leaves spatulate, acuminate, very 

 pulverulent; those of the leafy stem gradually diminishing to bracts, broadly 

 cordate, clasping ; panicle dichotomous, fastigiate ; the pedicels rather longer 

 than the (pale scarlet) flowers ; calyx about half the length of the connivent 

 petals. 



