(9) 
less united at base, very unequal, the longer ones 6-7 mm. long 
corolla reddish, short and broad, 8-9 mm. lon 
Collected by C. G. Pringle on calcareous hills near Tehuacan, 
Puebla, August, 1897 (no. 7499, type), and by Henry E. Seaton 
near Esperanza in the same state, August 4, 1891 (no. 333@). 
Very similar to &. g/auca in habit, but with different flowers. 
Echeveria cuspidata Rose, sp. nov. 
Acaulescent; leaves in a dense rosette, sometimes a hundred or 
ovate leaves free at base and acute at each end; inflorescence a 
simple secund raceme, at first strongly nodding, about 15-flowered ; 
buds arranged in two rows, obtusish; lower pedicels elongated, ro 
mm. long or less; sepals ease all. much shorter than the corolla, 
ovate, acute; corolla I . long, purplish with ees slightly 
spreading acute tips, ae ipbes united for about one fourth their 
length; stamens 10, all inserted on the corolla- ane the 5 opposite 
the sepals inserted at the top of the tube, the other 5 inserted a 
little lower down on the tube; carpels erect, free to the base 
Common at Saltillo, Mexico. This description is Gian from 
specimens collected by Dr. E. Palmer in 1902, which flowered 
in Washington in February, 1903 (Rose, no. 509). 
Echeveria minutiflora Rose, sp. nov. 
Flowering stems glaucous, clothed with thick leaves. Basal 
leaves forming a rosette, 7-10 cm. long, oblong, obtuse, light 
green, glabrous, tapering at base into a short petiole; inflorescence 
composed of small cymes, single flowers and twinned flowers ar- 
ranged in a thick leafy spike; sepals longer than the corolla, some- 
what unequal; corolla-segments spreading, tas acute, separated 
nearly to the base, greenish yellow spotted with red. 
Collected by C. G. Pringle near Tehuacan, Puebla, August 1, 
1897 (no. 7500, type); by J. N. Rose and Walter Hough between 
Tepeaca and Santa Rosa, Puebla, June 27, 1899 (no. 4704); and 
perhaps also by E. W. Nelson at Huajuapam, Oaxaca, November 
16, 1894 (no. 1980). 
Habit and inflorescence of }/adia parviflora, but with larger 
flowers and acute corolla-lobes. 
EcHEVERIA ScHarrnert (S. Wats.) Rose. 
Cotyledon Schaffneri S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 354. 1882. 
Collected by C. G. Pringle on alkaline plains, Hacienda de An 
