ADDISONIA 25 
(Plate 13) 
ECHEVERIA CARNICOLOR 
Flesh-colored Echeveria 
Native of eastern Mexico 
Family CRASSULACEAE ORPINE Family 
Cotyledon carnicolor Baker, in Saund. Ref. Bot. 3: pl. 199. 1870. 
Echeveria carnicolor E. Morren, Belg. Hort. 24: 158, 1874. 
A stemless plant, forming a small dense rosette of twenty or more 
leaves. ‘The leaves are highly colored, flat but fleshy, oblanceolate 
to spatulate, up to one and a half inches s long, half an inch broad, 
more or less glaucous, mise e flowering branches, at first 
spreading, then ascending, a x to eight inches long, and bear 
numerous narrow fleshy, mally” detected leaves. The six to twelve 
flowers are borne in the axils of small deciduous bracts. The pedi- 
cels are short, not more than half an inch long. ‘The five sepals are 
unequal, fleshy, spreading, acute. ‘The rigid, five-angled corolla is 
bright red, pointed, a half inch long, the five lobes acute and 
spreading at the tips. The ten stamens are included in the corolla- 
tube. ‘There are five carpels. 
When first cultivated and for a long time afterward the home of 
this species was not known, but J. G. Baker, who figured and first 
described it in 1870, suggested that it probably came from Mexico. 
In 1906 the plant was again introduced into cultivation by C. A. 
Purpus, who collected it at Barranca de Tenampa, Vera Cruz, where 
it grows on steep rocks; the plant in the New York Botanical Garden, 
which forms the basis of our illustration, came from this collection. 
This species is easily propagated, especially from the small 
leaves on the flowering stem, which, on falling to the ground, take 
root readily. 
J. N. Ross. 
EXPLANATION OF PLaTe. Fig. 1.—Plant. Fig. 2:—Flower, opened, showing 
stamens and pistil. 
