Refugium Botanicum.] [ February, 1869. 
TAB. 63. 
20. C. stoLoniFERA (Baker). Breviter caulescens, glabra, valde stolo- 
nifera, foliis dense rosulatis obovato-spathulatis, duplo longioribus 
quam latis, apice subdeltoideis mucronatis, utrinque pallide nitide 
viridibus, ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 
4—6 in cymum confertum parvum dispositis, bracteis oblanceolatis 
pedicellis erectis brevibus multo excedentibus, sepalis linearibus 
insequalibus corolla rubro-aurantiaca brevioribus. 
Mexico. 
Glabrous, shortly caulescent, very copiously stoloniferous. 
Leaves thirty to forty in a dense rosette, obovate-spathulate, the 
largest two to two and a half inches long by about half as broad 
five-sixths of the way up, the apex rounded and decidedly apicu- 
late, the lower three-quarters spathulately narrowed to a broad 
base, both sides a pale bright green with a very slight glaucous 
tinge, the centre of the blade one-eighth of an inch thick. 
Flowering branches six to eight inches long, with a few oblong- 
spathulate leaves under an inch long. J lowers four to six in a 
close cyme, the bracts that subtend the main branches half an 
inch long. Ultimate pedicels a line and a half to two lines long. 
Sepals thick, linear, very unequal, usually shorter than the yel- 
lowish-red decidedly pentagonal corolla, which is half an inch 
long.—J. G. B. 
This species may be treated much in the same manner as the 
two foregoing during the winter, but I have not tried it out-of- 
doors during the summer, although I think it would then stand 
the open air, in dry situations, well. It throws out from near the 
base numerous shoots or stolons, from whence its name, and by 
these it may be easily increased. I received it from Mexico, 
a few years since.—W. W. S. 
