Refugiwn Botanicum.] [February, 1869. 
TAB. 68. 
26. C. cymosa (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis rosulatis oblongo-lanceo- 
latis, triplo longioribus quam latis, ex apice tertii inferioris ad 
apicem acutum sensim attenuatis, utrinque pallide glauco-viridibus, 
ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 20—30 in 
cymum ramis erecto-patentibus dispositis, bracteis lanceolatis, supe- 
rioribus pedicellis longis gracilibus erecto-patentibus squantibus, 
sepalis lanceolatis eequalibus ascendentibus corolla flava triplo bre- 
vioribus.—LHcheverta cymosa, “ Hort. Angl.” ; Lemaire, Illust. Hort. 
vol. x. Suppl. p. 79. 
Mexico. 
Glabrous, not at all or very shortly caulescent. The leaves 
twenty to thirty in a dense rosette, oblong-lanceolate, the largest 
four inches or more long by an inch broad a third of the way up, 
narrowed downwards to a broad base, and gradually upwards to 
an acute point, not more than a line thick in the centre, both 
sides a pale glaucous-green,’ faintly tinged with red when old. 
Flowering branch a foot or more long, with a few much-reduced 
leaves. Flowers twenty to thirty in a dichotomously-forked cyme 
with erecto-patent branches. Bracts lanceolate, three-eighths to 
three-fourths of an inch long. Ultimate pedicels erecto-patent, 
three to four lines long. Calyx under a quarter of an inch deep, 
the divisions equal, lanceolate, ascending. Corolla yellow, five- 
eighths of an inch deep, hardly at all pentagonal.—J. G. B. 
A dwarf species, of slow growth, requiring careful watering to 
keep it in health, to receive which the plant must be potted in 
light sandy loam and leaf-mould, and kept in small pots, placed 
near the light in a warm greenhouse. It may be increased by 
seeds. I obtained my plants in 1855, from the collection of 
Mons. L. Van Houtte at Ghent.—W. W. S. 
