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broadly ovate to linear; corolla 9 mm. long, the segments in dry 
specimens keeled o n the back, with scarious margins, not connivent 
in age, united for heat one fourth their length. 
Collected by J. N. Rose among rocks on top of mountains near 
Monte Escobedo, Zacatecas, Mexico, August 26, 1897 (no. 26404). 
This species resembles &. Desmetiana in its sessile flowers, but 
the leaves are of different shape, and the bracts are not two-spurred 
at base. 
Echeveria humilis Rose, sp. nov. 
Acaulescent, or with a short woody caudex, glabrous through- 
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lanceolate, very unequal, the longer 4-5 mm. long, acute; 
8-9 mm. long, its segments united for about one fourth their length. 
Collected by Parry and Palmer, State of San Luis Potosi, 1878 
(no. 233 in part, type), and in the same state by J. G. Schaffner, 
1879 (no. 769). 
Echeveria obtusifolia Rose, sp. nov. 
Acaulescent or perhaps sometimes shortly caulescent, i Sade 
throughout; leaves forming a spre ading rosette 2 dm. » ob- 
lanceolate, rounde d at apex, 3.5 cm. broad at widest ses ‘nar- 
rowed to 5 mm. at base, thinnish (at iG in herbarium specimens) ; ;: 
flowering branche es 2-3 dm. long (naked in herbarium specimens 
seen); inflorescence a one-sided (?) raceme, erect or at least be- 
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ing; sepals unequal, ovate; corolla reddish, 10-12 mm. lo ong, 
rather broad, not strongly angled (as far as indicated by dried 
specimens 
Collected by C. G. Pringle on bluffs of mountain cafion near 
Cuernavaca, Morelos, altitude 3,150 meters, September 1 7, 1899 (no. 
7734). This species seems very distinct from all others known to 
the writer. In foliage it suggests . mucronata, but the inflores- 
cence is secund, as in the Z. glauca type. 
Echeveria Be ie da Rose, sp. nov. 
