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THE RETUSE ECHEVERRIA. 
(ECHEVERRIA RETUSA.) 
A handsome winter-flowering Greenhouse Succulent Plant, from MEXICO, belonging to the Order of 
HOoUSELEEKS. 
Specific Character. 
HE RETUSE Caulescent. L bovate, | ECHEVERRIA RETUSA; caulescens, foliis obovato-spathu- 
spathulate, finally scattered, glaucous, when old retuse latis demum sparsis glaucis ; vetustis retusi nulatis ; 
and somewhat ated ; those of the stem linear-oblong, caulinis lineari-oblongis integerrimis basi solutis, panieulà 
entire, free at the base. Panicle small, dense, divaricating, parva densa divarieatà sub-corymbosá ramis paucifloris, 
somewhat corymbose, with few-flowered branches, Sepals sepalis angusté ovatis acutis ineequalibus corolla multd 
narrowly ovate, acute, unequal, much shorter than the brevioribus, petalis carinatis acutis basi gibbosis. 
corolla. Petals acute, keeled, gibbous at the base. 
Echeverria retusa: Lindley, in Journ. of the Hort. Soc., vol. ii., p. 306. 
Tuts is by no means so well-known a plant as its usefulness should have rendered it, seeing that 
it was published almost five years since in the Journal of the Horticultural Society, with 
the following account :— 
“Tt was raised from seeds, received from Mr. Hartweg in February, 1846, and said to have 
been collected on rocks near Anganguco, in Mexico. A dwarf species, not unlike a contracted 
form of E. Scheerii. Its leaves are originally closely imbricated, but are never truly rosulate, and 
by degrees separate as the stem lengthens; they are broad at the point, but acute when young ; 
when old become extremely blunt, and irregularly crenated, as well as bordered with purple. The 
flower-stem is from nine inches to more than a foot high, and bears at the very summit a compact panicle 
of handsome crimson flowers, covered with a delicate bloom, and orange-coloured inside. It is a pretty 
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