268 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



and flowerinpf in August. Though not showy, its fine foliage 

 renders it well adapted for shrubberies, coarse rockwork, and 

 flower borders, devoted to the cultivation of the rougher kind of 

 perennials. 



5. TiLLANBsiA STRicTA. Botunical Magazine, t, 1529. 



Received from Miss Croker, of Chiswick, February 23rd, 

 1852, said to be from Rio. 



This is a small Pine Apple-like plant, about 6 inches high 

 when in flower. The leaves are very narrow, channelled, mealy, 

 stiff, terminating in a long drawn-out point, and curved back- 

 wards till their ends are below the base of the plant. The 

 flowering stems are shorter than the leaves, curved downwards, 

 clothed with small green leaves resembling those below them. 

 The flowers are collected into oblong cones, formed of shining, 

 naked, roundish ovate, convex, imbricated bracts, the lower of 

 which have a leafy point. Two varieties were observed, one 

 with bright rose-coloured bracts and blue flowers, the other with 

 greenish bracts and white flowers. 



Among the less important inhabitants of the stove this may be 

 regarded as a useful little plant, growing best in a warm moist 

 air, attached to a block of wood, where it flowers in August. 



6. EcHEVERiA QuiTENsis* — Sedum quitense. Humboldt, 

 Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. and Sp., pi. 6, 46. 



Received from Isaac Anderson, Esq., of Edinburgh, in 

 August, 1851. 



A bright green smooth succulent plant, forming stiff" erect 

 stems about 6 inches high, clothed by imbricated spathulate 

 leaves, with an almost circular base attached to the stem only by 

 one bundle of fibro-vascular tissue. The flowers are in stiff close 

 erect racemes, shorter than the lower bracts, which resemble in 

 form the leaves, but taper less to the base. Sepals 5, longer 

 than the pedicel, equal, linear, acuminate, rather shorter than 

 the corolla, which forms a scarlet five-sided pyramid, opening 

 very slightly at the end into 5 acuminate lobes. Of the 10 

 stamens, 5 stand in furrows of the petals, and 5 are distinct. 



This is evidently an Echeveria, as De Candolle surmised, 

 and not a Sedum. During the summer it does very well on 

 rockwork out of doors, but it is probable that it should be treated 



* E. quitensis; omnibus partibus nuda, caulibus imbi-icatim foliosis, foliis 

 spathulatis apiculatis, sepalis lincaribus aciitissimis aiqualibus suberectis 

 corolla subclavisJi brcvioribus. — J. L. 



