half to three inches long by three-quarters of an inch broad 
three-quarters of the way up, the apex rounded and faintly apicu- 
late, both sides a bright light shining green, not at all glaucous, 
the old ones with a faint reddish tinge. LTlowering branch a foot 
and a half to two feet long, with a few much-reduced leaves. 
Flowers ten to twelve in lax drooping subsecund racemes which 
are either simple or branched at the base. Bracts oblanceolate- 
spathulate, the lower ones longer than the pedicels. Pedicels 
ascending, the lower ones bracteolate, three-eighths to half an 
inch long. Sepals linear, unequal, the longest about equalling 
the yellowish red corolla, which is decidedly pentagonal, under 
half an inch long. 
19. C. Scurertt (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis rosulatis, magnis, 
oblongo-spathulatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, utrinque 
elauco-viridibus, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, valde reductis, 
floribus 30—40 in racemis tribus secundis nutantibus dispositis, 
bracteis oblanceolatis pedicellis erecto-patentibus multo excedenti- 
bus, sepalis patulis, linearibus, ineequalibus, corolla saturate rubro- 
auriantiaca brevioribus. — Meheverta Scheerit, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 31, 
t. 27. 
Mexico. 
Caulescent, glabrous. Leaves rosulate, oblongo-spathulate, the 
largest six to seven inches long by more than two inches broad 
three-quarters of the way up, the point acute, the lower two- 
thirds spathulately narrowed, both sides glaucous-green. Leaves 
of the flowering branch numerous, but much reduced. Flowers 
ina trifid raceme with secund drooping branches six to eight 
inches long, with ten to twelve flowers each. Bracts half an inch 
to an inch jong, the upper ones imbricated. Pedicels erecto- 
patent, the lowest a quarter of an inch long. Sepals linear, 
spreading, very unequal, a quarter to three-eighths of an inch 
long. Corolla five-eighths to three-fourths of an inch long, red 
and yellow, decidedly pentagonal. 
We have not seen this, and have compiled the description from 
Lindley’s figure and notes.—d. G. B. 
