3. OC. RosEaTA (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis sublaxis, oblanceolato- 
spathulatis, triplo vel quadruplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, e 
basi tertii superioris spathulatim angustatis, utrinque glauco-viridi- 
bus, infra et margine rubro-tinctis, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, 
lanceolato-spathulatis, roseis, floribus 30—70 dense spicatis, brac- 
teis et sepalis linearibus roseis corolla pallide flavé equantibus. — 
Hicheveria rosea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 28, t. 22; Walp. Rep. i. p. 259. 
Courantia echeveroides, Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. vol. i. Suppl. p. 91. 
Mexico. 
Stem glabrous, pale green, slightly glaucous, a foot or more 
high, a quarter to half an inch thick, the scars roundish. Leaves 
twenty to thirty spread over three or four inches at the apex of 
the stem, oblanceolate-spathulate, the largest two and a half to 
three inches long by three-fourths of an inch broad three-quarters 
of the way up, the point acute, the lower part spathulately nar- 
rowed to a terete base, the lamina a line thick, both sides quite 
glabrous, glaucous-green with a reddish tinge at the edge and 
beneath, especially when old. Flowering branch a foot high, the 
leaves dense, spreading, lanceolate-spathulate, deeply tinged with 
red; the spike dense, 80- to 50- or even 70-flowered; the bracts 
rose-red, linear, equalling the flowers. Sepals linear, rose-red, 
equalling the corolla, which is pale yellow and but slightly penta- 
gonal. ilaments joined together from the base to the middle. 
A very well-marked species, not closely allied to any other. 
There is already a C. rosea of Lessing from Siberia. On account 
of the peculiar structure of the stamens Lemaire has proposed it 
as the type of a new genus. 
4. C. mucronata (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, an- 
guste obovato-spathulatis, triplo vel quadruplo longioribus quam 
latis, acutis, utrinque viridibus, ramorum floriferorum paucis re- 
ductis, floribus 20—30 laxe spicatis, bracteis lanceolatis, sepalis 
lanceolatis ascendentibus subequalibus corolla flavo-rubra ultra 
duplo brevioribus. — Hcheveria mucronata, Schlecht. Linn. xii. p. 
41h Hort. Hal. p.,19, t.)10; 
Mexico. 
Glabrous, not at all caulescent. Leaves in a dense rosette, 
narrowly obovate-spathulate, the largest three to four inches long 
by an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the point acute, 
both sides green. Flowering branch, including the raceme, a foot 
and a half to two feet long, with a few distant spreading reduced 
leaves in the lower half, the flowers twenty to thirty in a narrow 
