Refugium Botantcum. | [february, 1869. 
TAB, 59. 
11. C. nurma (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis oblongo- 
ligulatis, triplo vel quadruplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, facie 
concavis, glauco-viridibus, plus minus luride purpureo tinctis, ra- 
morum floriferorum laxis, valde reductis, floribus 12—20 in race- 
mum erectum equilaterale deorsum lJaxum dispositis, bracteis 
parvis linearibus deciduis, pedicellis brevibus patentibus, sepalis 
linearibus horizontaliter patulis corolla rubra duplo brevioribus.— 
Echeveria lurida, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 27,t.1; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 259. 
Ei. racemosa, Schlecht. et Cham. Linn. v. p. 554; Bot. Mag. t. 
3570; Walp. Rep. i. p. 259. 
Mexico. 
Not at all caulescent, glabrous. The leaves fifteen to twenty 
in a dense rosette, ligulate-oblong, the largest three to four 
inches long by an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the 
face concave, the point acute, both sides glaucous-green, deeply 
tinged with dull purple, especially when old, the edge carti- 
laginous. lowering branches twelve to eighteen inches long, the 
leaves lax, ascending and much reduced. JS'lowers twelve to 
twenty in an erect equilateral raceme, lax in the lower half. 
Bracts small, linear-lanceolate, falling as the flowers expand. 
Pedicels two to three lines, spreading or the lowest cernuous. 
Sepals thick, linear, spreading horizontally, subequal, a quarter 
of an inch long. Corolla bright red, half to five-eighths of an 
inch deep, decidedly pentagonal.—J. G. B. 
This is a dull-coloured species, requiring a warm dry green- 
house treatment. It is most impatient of water in the winter 
season, and should be grown in sandy leaf-mould in well-drained 
small pots. It may be increased by offsets, seeds or leaves, 
treated as recommended under Cotyledon linguefolia. I am 
indebted to the Royal Gardens, Kew, for this interesting species. 
Wal. S. 
