Refugium Botanicum.| (February, 1869. 
TAB. 69. 
27. C. casPirosa (Haworth, Misc. p. 180). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense 
rosulatis, ligulato-lanceolatis, triplo vel quadruplo longioribus quam 
latis, acutis, utrinque glauco-viridibus, ramorum floriferorum nume- 
rosis, valde reductis, ovato-amplexicaulibus, floribus 20—40 in 
cymum copiose ramosum ramis scorpioideis dispositis, bracteis 
ovatis pedicellis sequantibus, sepalis lanceolatis equalibus ascenden- 
tibus corolla straminea plus duplo brevioribus. — Sedum Cotyledon, 
Jacq. Eclog.1.t. 17. Echeveria cespitosa, D.C. Prodr. ii. p. 401. 
C. linguiformis, Ait. Hort. Kew, edit. 2, vol. ii. p. 109. CC. reflexa, 
Willd. Enum. Suppl. p. 24. 
Mexico and California. 
Glabrous, not at all caulescent. The leaves twenty to thirty in 
a dense rosette, ligulate-lanceolate, the largest two and a half to 
three inches long by three-quarters of an inch broad two-thirds of 
the way up, narrowed very slightly downwards, gradually upwards 
to an acute point, the centre of the blade one-eighth of an inch 
thick, both sides glaucous-green, faintly tinged with red when 
fading. lowering branch a foot or more long, with numerous 
ovate-amplexicaul spreading much-reduced leaves. [lowers twenty 
to thirty in a copiously-compound cyme with scorpioid branches, 
the lower ones horizontal. Bracts minute, the lower ones equal- 
ling the pedicels, which are two to three lines long. Sepals lan- 
ceolate, ascending, equal, two to two and a half lines long. 
Corolla pale straw-yellow, four and a half to five lines long, 
hardly at all pentagonal. 
So far as we can judge from the descriptions, EL. laxa, Lindl. 
Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. p. 292, H. campanulata, Kunze, Delect. Sem. 
Hort. Lips. adn. p.7, and EH. lanceolata, Nuttall in Torrey & 
Gray’s Flora N. Am. p. 561, do not differ from this materially.— 
Ji sD. 
This plant I find very impatient of moisture at the roots 
during the winter season, and requires great care in its culti- 
vation. It should be grown in small pots, and treated much in 
the same way as the last. I obtained the plant in 1855, at the 
nursery of Mons. L. Van Houtte at Ghent: it was reared from 
seeds received from California.—W, W. 8. 
