17. C. srrictirritora (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis rosulatis, oblan- 
ceolato-spathulatis triplo longioribus quam latis, apice acutis, 
deorsum e basi tertii superioris spathulatim attenuatis, ramorum 
floriferorum valde reductis, floribus 15—20 in racemum elongatum 
laxum secundum demum omnino erectum dispositis, pedicellis bre- 
vibus erecto-patentibus, sepalis equalibus lanceolatis ascendentibus 
corolla rubra duplo brevioribus. — Hcheveria strictifiora, A. Gray, 
Plant. Wright, i. p. 76. 

Gathered by Mr. C. Wright in an expedition from Western 
Texas to New Mexico, and in the United States’ survey of the 
Mexican boundary under Major W. H. Emory. 
Not at all caulescent, glabrous. The leaves in a sparse (?) 
rosette, oblanceolate-spathulate, the largest in dried specimens 
three inches long by an inch broad two-thirds of the way up, nar- 
rowed gradually to an acute point and spathulately downwards 
to a narrow base. Flowering branch a foot and a half to two feet 
long, its leaves few and bract-like. lowers fifteen to twenty in 
a secund raceme, which is finally a foot long and quite erect. 
The pedicels much shorter and stouter than the three preceding. 
Calyx ascending, the divisions lanceolate, equal, about half as 
long as the red corolla, which is five-eighths of an inch long. 
Studied upon dried specimens only. Allied to the three pre- 
ceding, but the leaves quite a different shape, the flowering 
branch stronger and more rigid and pedicels shorter. 
S888 Gibbiflore. 
18. C. BracrEoLata (Baker). Longe caulescens, glabra, foliis sparsis, 
oblanceolato-spathulatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotun- 
datis, egre apiculatis, utrinque pallide nitide viridibus, ramorum 
floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus in racemis laxis sub- 
secundis 10—12-floris simplicibus vel ad basin furcatis dispo- 
sitis, bracteis oblanceolatis pedicellis erecto-patentibus longioribus, 
sepalis linearibus ineequalibus corolla flavo-rubra sequantibus. — 
E'cheverta bracteolata, Link, Klotzsch et Otto Ic. Plant. ii. t. 68; 
Walp. Rep. i. p. 259; Lemaire, Illust. Hort. vol. x. Suppl. p. 78. 
Andes of New Granada, introduced in 1840. 
Glabrous; the stems attaining a height of a foot and a thick- 
ness of three-eighths of an inch, bright green, the scars roundish. 
Leaves oblanceolate-spathulate, not rosulate, twenty to thirty, the 
lower ones decurved, the upper horizontal, the largest two and a 
