Refugium Botanicum.] [ February, 1869. 
TAB. 64. 
21. C. rutcrens (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis rosulatis obovato- 
spathulatis, ultra duplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis 
apiculatis, utrinque glauco-viridibus, demum margine egre crispatis, 
ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 15—20 in 
paniculam cymosam ramis paucis nutantibus racemosis dispositis, 
bracteis pedicellis erecto-patentibus multo longioribus, sepalis lan- 
ceolatis inzequalibus corolla saturate rubra multo brevioribus. — 
Lcheveria fulgens, Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 244. 
Mexico. 
Glabrous. The stems attaining a height of four to six inches. 
The leaves eight to twelve in a rosette at the apex, the largest 
about four inches long by an inch and a half to an inch and 
three-quarters broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex 
rounded and slightly pointed, the lower three-quarters spathu- 
lately narrowed to a broad base, the centre of the blade one- 
eighth of an inch thick, both sides a pale glaucous-green, the 
edge only slightly crisped when old. Flowering branches twelve 
to eighteen inches long, with several ascending lanceolate-spathu- 
late leaves an inch or more long. Flowers twelve to twenty in 
an irregular panicle, with nutant racemose branches two to three 
inches long, the flowers of which do not reach down to the base. 
Main bracts oblanceolate-spathulate, three-quarters of an inch to° 
an inch long. Pedicels erecto-patent, three to four lnes long. 
Sepals lanceolate, very unequal, spreading or slightly ascending, 
considerably shorter than the pentagonal corolla, which is bright 
coral-red on the outside, yellow in the throat, half to five-eighths 
of an inch long. 
Very near C. retusa, but shortly caulescent; the leaves nar- 
rower and more glaucous, hardly at all crisped at the edge; and 
the cyme not so close.—J. G. B. 
A beautiful species, producing, when well-grown, many coral- 
red flowers at the same time, which are of long duration. It 
requires a warm greenhouse treatment, and should be potted in 
rich light loam and leaf-mould, the pots well drained. It is freely 
increased by seeds, cuttings, or by the leaves, inserted in sand. 
The source from whence my plants were obtained is doubtful.— 
W.W.S. 
