spike about a foot long. Bracts lanceolate, the lower ones equal- 
ling the sepals, which are also lanceolate, thick, subequal, 
ascending, a quarter of an inch long. Corolla five-eighths of an 
inch deep, subpentagonal, urceolate, mixed red and yellow. 
Of this we have not seen either living or dried specimens, but 
judging from Schlechtendahl’s excellent figure and descriptions 
it seems a very well-marked species. 
§§ Racemose. 
5. C. quirensts (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis laxis, oblanceolatis, 
quadruplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis, obtuse apicu- 
latis, deorsum e basi tertii superioris subspathulatim angustatis, 
utrinque pallide nitide viridibus, demum rubro tinctis, ramorum 
floriferorum numerosis, paullulum reductis, floribus 4—8, equi- 
lateraliter racemosis, bracteis oblanceolato-spathulatis pedicellis 
erecto-patentibus longioribus, sepalis lanceolatis subsequalibus co- 
rolla flavo-rubra duplo brevioribus.—Sedum quitense, H. B. K. Nov. 
Gen. vi. p. 46. Hcheveria quitensis, Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. vii. 
p: 269. 
Andes of New Granada. 
Stem six to nine inches high, one-fourth of an inch thick, gray 
when mature, naked, light green when young, the scars roundish. 
Leaves twenty-five to thirty, spreading, not aggregated, ob- 
lanceolate, the largest an inch or rather more long by three- 
eighths of an inch broad five-sixths of the way up, the apex 
rounded with a slight point, the lower three-quarters slightly 
spathulately narrowed, the blade one-eighth of an inch thick, the 
colour a shining bright hght green, finally tinged with red. 
Flowering branches half a foot long, with several tolerably close 
erecto-patent leaves, like those of the stem, but smaller. Flowers 
four to eight in a tolerably close raceme an inch and a half to 
two inches long. Lower bracts oblanceolate, half an inch to five- 
eighths of an inch long. Pedicels erecto-patent, the lowest one- 
fourth to three-eighths of an inch long. Sepals lanceolate, 
ascending, slightly unequal, about half as long as the corolla, 
which is reddish yellow, half an inch deep, decidedly pentagonal. 
A very distinct species. 
