two feet high and an inch thick, marked with the round scars of 
the fallen leaves. Leaves obovate-spathulate, eight to twelve ag- 
sregated towards the apex of the stem in a lax rosette, the largest 
three to three and a half inches long by an inch and a half 
broad, spathulately narrowed from two-thirds of the way up, the 
point subacute, the base subterete, two to three lines thick, the 
lamina half as thick, the face concave, the colour a pale green, 
tinged with red when fading, and both sides so densely pubescent 
that in some lights they look nearly white. Flowering branches, 
including the spike, about a foot long, their leaves few and much 
reduced. Spike occupying about half the branch, composed of 
fifteen to twenty-five flowers, the upper part dense, the lower 
laxer. Bracts linear, the lower ones exceeding the flowers. 
Sepals linear, unequal, spreading, about as long as the corolla, 
which is subpentagonal, five-eighths of an inch deep, bright red 
on the outside, yellow in the throat within. 
2. C. cocoinga (Cav. Ic. i. p. 54, t. 170). Longe caulescens, griseo- 
pubescens, foliis aggregatis, oblanceolato-spathulatis, triple vel 
quadruplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, e basi tertii superioris 
spathulatim angustatis, utrinque pallide viridibus, ramorum flori- 
ferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 15—25, subdense spicatis, 
bracteis linearibus, inferioribus floribus excedentibus, sepalis lineari- 
bus patulis inzequalibus corolla flavo-rubra subsquantibus. — Bot. 
Mag. t. 2572; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 882; Echeveria coccinea, D.C. 
Prodr. ui. p. 401. 
Mexico. 
Stems grayish or reddish brown, finely gray-pubescent like the 
rest of the plant, often one or two feet long, and an inch thick, 
marked with round scars. eaves oblanceolate-spathulate, eight 
to twelve aggregated towards the apex of the stem, the largest 
three to four inches long by three-fourths of an inch to one inch 
broad, the point acute, the lower three-quarters spathulately nar- 
rowed to a terete base, the lamina an eighth of an inch thick, 
both sides gray-pubescent, when fading tinged with red. Flowering 
branches, including the spike, about a foot long, their leaves few 
and much reduced; the spike about half the length, of fifteen to 
twenty-five flowers. Sepals and corolla as in the last species. 
Very near the last, with which in general habit and the 
arrangement and character of the flowers it quite agrees, but the 
leaves considerably narrower and the pubescence finer. 
