Refugium Botanicum. | [ February, 1869. 
TAB. 62. 
16. C. pumins (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, oblan- 
ceolato-cuneatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, apice subdeltoideis, 
mucronatis, utrinque glaucis, demum rubro-tinctis, ramorum flori- 
ferorum subnullis, floribus 8—12 in racemum secundum deorsum 
laxum dispositis, bracteis lanceolatis, pedicellis erecto-patentibus 
eequantibus, sepalis eequalibus lanceolatis corolla saturate rubro- 
aurantiaca, duplo brevioribus.— Hcheveria pumila, ‘‘ Van Houtte, 
Cat. 1846 ;” Schlecht. Hort. Hal. p. 20. 
Mexico. 
Not at all caulescent, glabrous, copiously stoloniferous from 
the crown of the root. The leaves fifty to sixty in a very dense 
rosette, the outer ones spreading, an inch and a half to two 
inches long by six to seven lines broad five-sixths of the way up, 
the apex subdeltoid with a mucro, the lower three-quarters 
cuneately narrowed to a broad base, both sides a very pale 
glaucous-green, the old leaves tinged with red upwards. JL lower- 
ing branches six to nine inches long, slender, terete, pinkish 
glaucous, with only a few distant bract-like leaves. Raceme 8- to 
12-flowered, finally two to three inches long. Sracts lanceolate, 
about equalling the erecto-patent pedicels, the lowest of which 
are at last three lines long. Calyx and corolla of the two 
preceding. 
This and the two preceding are closely allied, and quite agree 
in general habit, calyx and corolla.—J. G. B. 
This species is very nearly allied to C. glauca, requiring the 
same treatment, and is a still more useful plant for edgings to 
borders during the summer months. It has much the same 
glaucous-green tint as the species just alluded to, but its leaves 
are longer, narrower, more pointed, and produced in such num- 
bers as to form a very regular compact rosette. This species, 
with the old C. secunda and C. glauca, have all the same habit. 
I received it from Mons. Van Houtte, of Ghent, many years 
since.—W. W. S. 
