Refugiunm Botanicum. | f August, 1868. 
TAB. 35. 
Natural Order CrAssuLACE®. 
Genus CoTyLepon, Linn. 
C. macutata (Salm-dyck. Obs. p. 5). Caulescens, foliis obovato-spathu- 
latis eegre duplo longioribus quam latis, glauco-viridibus semper 
brunneo-maculatis, deorsum faciebus utrinque paullulum convexis, 
floribus simpliciter racemosis, solitariis vel deorsum geminatis bre- 
viter pedicellatis, calycibus corollis quadruplo brevioribus, segmentis 
lanceolatis roseis decurvatis tubo quadruplo brevioribus. — D. C. 
Prodr. vol. iii. p. 398, C. hemispherica, Harv. Fl. Cap. u. p. 376, 
ex parte. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Caulescent; the stem often branched, four to six inches long, 
six to eight lines thick, below marked with the roundish scars of 
the fallen leaves, the old skin grayish. Leaves moderately close 
together in the upper part of the stem, ascending in various 
directions, obovate-spathulate, the largest two and a half to three 
inches long by an inch and a half broad, the colour a very 
glaucous-green, and both sides conspicuously spotted from the 
youngest stage with reddish brown, the edge horn-like, entire, 
with a very faint mucro at the apex, the lower part a quarter of 
an inch thick and both sides slightly convex, the upper half flat 
on the face. Scape fifteen to eighteen inches high including the 
flowering part, erect, terete, glaucous with a tinge of purple, 
without any leaves, and the raceme taking up its upper two-thirds. 
Flowers in a lax simple raceme a foot long, in the upper part 
solitary and near together, in the lower part slightly stalked, 
usually in pairs, with a space of about half an inch between them. 
Calyx between campanulate and tubular, about two lines deep, 
with lanceolate divisions reaching a third of the way down. 
Corolla quite tubular, about nine lines long, the tube green on 
the outside, the divisions lanceolate, reaching a quarter of the 
way down, rose-pink on both sides, finally rather decurved, the 
throat white, slightly spotted. Stamens in two sets, the longest 
just equalling the tube, the others very little shorter, and the 
carpels equalling the shorter filaments. Hypogynous scales broader 
than deep, the apex emarginate.—J. G. B. 
