14. C. secunpa (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, obovato- 
cuneatis, egre duplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis con- 
spicue mucronatis, dimidio inferiore cuneatis, utrinque pallide viri- 
dibus, primum subglaucis, demum saturate rubro tinctis, ramorum 
floriferorum subnullis, floribus 12—15 in racemum secundum deor- 
sum laxum dispositis, bracteis oblongis pedicellis erecto-patentibus 
brevioribus, sepalis sequalibus lanceolatis ascendentibus corolla 
rubro-aurantiaca duplo brevioribus.—Hcheveria secunda, Lindl. Bot. 
Reg. xxiv. Suppl. p. 59, vol. xxvi. t.57; Schlecht. Hort. Hal. p. 
20. EH. spilota, Kunze, MSS. 
Mexico. 
Glabrous, not at all caulescent, stoloniferous from the crown 
of the root. The leaves fifty or more in a very dense rosette, 
the outer ones slightly ascending, broadly obovate-cuneate, an 
inch and a half to an inch and three-quarters long by an inch 
broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex rounded with a very 
distinct mucro, the lower two-thirds cuneately narrowed to a 
broad base, the colour a pale apple-green, with a slight glaucous 
tinge when young, the upper part of the old leaves deeply tinged 
with scarlet. lowering branch a foot high, slender, terete, 
pinkish glaucous, with only a few distant small bract-like leaves. 
Flowers twelve to fifteen in a secund raceme, which is finally four 
to six inches long. Bracts oblong, two to three lines long. 
Pedicels slender, erecto-patent, the lowest three to four lines 
long. Sepals lanceolate, equal, two lines long, at first spreading, 
finally ascending. Corolla three-eighths of an inch deep, hardly 
at all pentagonal, bright red downwards, bright yellow upwards 
and within. 
We have seen a single specimen with the lowest pedicel forked. 
Schlechtendahl (‘ Linnea,’ xii. p. 411) describes an Hcheveria 
bifida from Mexico which resembles this, but has a pair of 
secund racemes three to six inches long.—J. G. B. 
