Refugium Botanicum.| [Mebruary, 1869. 
TAB. 56. 
6. C. Nopunosa (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis rosulatis, obovato- 
spathulatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, e basi tertii 
superioris deorsum spathulatim angustatis, utrinque subglauco- 
viridibus, infra et margine rubro-tinctis, ramorum  floriferorum 
numerosis, ascendentibus, floribus 4—6, laxe equilateraliter race- 
mosis, bracteis minimis, pedicellis brevibus, demum erecto-patenti- 
bus, sepalis patulis, linearibus, corolla rubro-straminea paulo bre- 
vioribus. 
Mexico. 
Stems naked, grayish brown, attaining a height of six or eight 
inches and a thickness of half an inch, tumid, gouty, the scars 
twice as broad as deep. Leaves obovate-spathulate, aggregated 
at the apex of the stem in a dense rosette, the largest two inches 
to two inches and a half long by three-fourths of an inch broad 
three-quarters of the way up, the apex subdeltoid with a mucro, 
the lower two-thirds spathulately narrowed to a base two to three 
lines broad, the colour a dull apple-green with a slight glaucous 
tinge, the under surface and edge more or less tinged with red. 
Flowering branches six to nine inches long, their leaves close and 
ascending, gradually diminishing upwards, but the lowest not 
much smaller than those of the rosette. lowers four to six in a 
lax raceme three to four inches long. Bracts linear, the lower ones 
not more than half an inch long. Pedicels finally erecto-patent, 
the lowest two to three lines long. Sepals three-eighths of an 
inch long, linear, spreading. Corolla half an inch long, decidedly 
pentagonal, straw-yellow tinged with red.—J. G. B. 
This species should be grown in a mixture of light sandy loam 
and leaf-mould, and during the winter months it requires but 
little water. A warm, dry, light greenhouse is found to be the 
most suitable for its healthy cultivation. The plant flowers 
freely, and may be increased by seeds or cuttings. I obtained it 
some years since, with other plants which I understood came 
from Mexico.—W. W.S. 
