292 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



most are only oblong. The flowers have but five stamens ; the 

 sepals are very short, and bordered witli long ramentaceous hairs 

 at the edge, althougli they are naked on the back. There are no 

 glands or setae on either calyx or flower-stalks. 



It is a dwarf evergreen shrub, requiring the same kind of 

 treatment as other species of Chinese Azalea, and easily increased 

 by cuttings in the usual way. It is very pretty and distinct, and 

 deserves general cultivation. 



March 20, 1849. 



27. ECHEVERIA LAXA.* 



Sent from woods near Monterey in California, in 1847, 

 by Hartweg. 



A succulent plant, with fleshy, concave, taper-pointed leaves, 

 which when young are very glaucous, but become yellowish- 

 green with age, and are collected in a sessile rosette. Stem weak, 

 dull purple, about two feet long, bearing a few sessile, trian- 

 gular, somewhat cordate scales. Flowers yellow, like those of 

 Sempervivum arboreum in appearance, arranged loosely on one 

 side of the long drooping arms of a racemose panicle. The sepals 

 are short, triangular, glaucous, not more than one-third the 

 length of tlie corolla. Instead of hypogynous scales, this species 

 has very short truncate glands, with a concave secreting end. 



The species is near E. casspitosa, from which its acuminate 

 leaves, and stalked, not sessile, flowers distinguish it 



It grows freely in a mixture of sandy loam and leaf-mould, and 

 is easily increased either from seeds or by cuttings. It grows 

 best when fully exposed, and kept rather dry in a cool green- 

 house. 



A very distinct-looking kind, but not one that is handsome. 



July 31, 1849. 



28. ECHEVERIA PARINOSA.f 



Rocks near Carmel Bay in California ; Hartweg. 



This has short succulent stems, bearing on the end a tuft of 

 leaves as white as if they had been powdered with flour. The 

 stem-leaves are fleshy, triangular, concave, sessile, and sagittate, 



* E. laxa ; cocspitosa, foliis rosulatis ovatis acumiriatis concavis juniori- 

 bus glaucis, floribus (luteis) laxe paniculato-racemosis secundis peduncu- 

 latis. — J. L. 



f E. farhiosa ; caulescens, nana, foliis linguiformibus acutis planis 

 candidis adultis viridibus, caule decumbente, racemis secundis corymboso- 

 paniculatis, floribus pedunculatis. — J. L. 



