60 : GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
inter se insequalibus, petiolatis, grosse serratis, ciliatis, supra sparsim pubescentibus, subtus nervoso-hirsutissimis ; 
ram lo 
inches long, and from one and a half to three inches broad; the flowers are bell-shaped, pendulous, three inches long, and 
nearly two inches in diameter, woolly outside, smooth inside. There are now twelve species of this well-limited genus, 
and of these one half come from the West India islands—one is from Brazil, two from Peru, one from Columbia, and 
the corolla, yellowish or greenish, and spotted with dark red purple. The fifth pollen cell, which M. Von Martius 
supposes, in his description of the genus, to be abortive, is absent from all the species which I have had the opportunity of 
examining.— Klotzsch, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Jan. 17, 1852. 
531. ECHEVERIA BRACTEOSA. (alias Pachyphytum bracteosum Link, Klotzsch, & Otto.) A 
glaucous succulent undershrub. Native of Mexico. Flowers green and red. Belongs to the Order 
of Houseleeks. Blossoms in January and February. (Fig. 261.) 
This very fine species was sent to the Royal Botanic Garden, Berlin, in 1838, from Mexico, by Mr. Charles 
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bloom. The leaves rose t the end of a 
short stem flat, obovate, obtuse, almost a 
an inch thick, Fro; em rises a 
erect, united at the base into a short cup, rather unequal, 
and considerably longer than the dull red petals, It 
probably exists in our gardens among the Mexican 
Echeverias that have not yet flowered. 
532. STROBILORACHIS GLABRA. Link, 
Klotzsch, & Otto. (alias Strob. prismatica 
Nees; aliàs Ruellia prismatica 7 ellozo ; aliàs 
Harrachia macrothyrsus Martius ; aliàs Justicia 
imbricata Po.) A hothouse shrub, with green 
cones of bracts and pale yellow flowers. Native 
of Brazil. Belongs to Acanthads. (Fig. 262.) 
This plant has something the habit of an Aphelandra. 
Theleaves are oblon g-lanceolate,acuminate, convex, wavy 
bright green. The flowers are arranged in four-cornered, i 
cones, four or five inches long, formed of strongly keeled, T 
ovate, green bracts, from within w ich appear pale yellow bilabiate corollas, having a truncate two-lobed upper lip, and 
a three-lobed lower lip, the middle lobe of which is broader and more blunt than the laterals. The species is by no 
means infrequent in continental gardens, to which it was introduced from Be 
shady places on the Coreovado Mo , and in many similar places near Rio Janeiro. We are at a loss to 
understand upon what principle the name first given to the plant by Dr. Klotzsch was altered by Professor Nees von 
