Refugium Botanicum.} | Hebruary, 1869. 
TAB. 57. 
¥Y. C. nupa (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis obovato-spathulatis, sub- 
laxis, duplo longioribus quam latis, sursum rotundatis, apice mu- 
cronatis, deorsum e basi tertii superioris spathulatim angustatis, 
pallide glauco-viridibus, paullulum rubro-tinctis, ramorum florifero- 
rum numerosis ascendentibus, floribus 10—1L5, subdense eequila- 
teraliter racemosis, pedicellis brevibus, erecto-patentibus, sepalis 
crassis, linearibus, patulis, ineequalibus, corolla flavo-rubra sequan- 
tibus. 
Mexico. 
Stems glabrous, glaucous-green, attaining a height of six or 
eight inches and a thickness of three-eighths of an inch, the 
scars roundish. eaves obovate-spathulate, twelve to fifteen ag- 
sregated towards the apex of the stem, the largest above two inches 
long by an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex 
rounded and mucronate, the lower two-thirds spathulately nar- 
rowed to a roundish base. Flowering branch six to twelve inches 
long, its leaves numerous and ascending. Raceme 12- to 20- 
flowered, moderately dense, more than an inch in thickness. 
Bracts linear, falling as the flowers expand, three to four lines 
long. Pedicels one-eighth of an inch long, at first spreading, 
finally erecto-patent. Sepals thick, linear, unequal, spreading 
horizontally, the longest equalling the corolla, which is under 
half an inch long, decidedly pentagonal, pink in the lower part, 
straw-coloured upwards and within.—/J. G. B. 
This species does well, treated and grown in a similar manner 
to the foregoing. I have had the plant for some years, but have 
no information as to its origin. —W. |W. 8. 
