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ascending blunt, linear, terete, | inch to i inch long, pale often pinkish glaucous 

 ereen with a short blunt spur ; those of the flowering shoots larger, about 

 i inch bv i inch, linear-lanceolate, rather flattened. Inflorescence cymose. 

 oi 2 or ^ small, lax, leafy scorpioid branches, one of them usually longer than 

 Se other two. Buds slender, pointed. Flowers | inch across sub-sessile. 

 Sepals pale-green or pink, fleshy, linear-lanceolate, blunt, separate almost to the 



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Fig. 73. — S. potosinum Rose. 



base Petals white wide-spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, flushed red on 

 bSk. t;Sthr sepals. sJmens f fhe petals filaments -^ite anthers purple. 

 Scales small, white Carpels erect, equalling the stamens, white, styles pink. 



Flowers July (gentle heat) ; August (cold frame). Not hardy. 

 Habitat. — Mexico. . , , 1 



Received from Washington, New York, and Edmburgh ; also 

 from Haage and Schmidt, of Erfurt. 



The name is derived from San Luis Potosi, where the plant grows. 



