Refugium Botanicum. | [Pebruary, 1869. 
TAB. 70. 
28. C. catirornica (Baker).  Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, 
ligulato-lanceolatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, utrinque 
glauco-farinosis, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, valde reductis, 
ovato-amplexicaulibus, floribus 12—20 in cymum ramis geminatis 
vel tribus racemosis dispositis, bracteis ovatis pedicellis subpatenti- 
bus zquantibus, sepalis lanceolato-deltoideis eequalibus corolla stra- 
minea triplo brevioribus.—Heheveria californica, Hort. 
California. 
Not caulescent or very slightly so. The leaves twenty to thirty 
in a dense rosette, ligulate-lanceolate, the largest two to two and 
a half inches long by three-fourths to seven-eighths of an inch 
broad three-quarters of the way up, narrowed from this to an acute 
point and downwards to a broad base, the blade one-eighth of an 
inch thick in the middle, both sides very glaucous, still so when 
old, with a very faint reddish tinge. Flowering branch a foot 
long, the stem glaucous and deeply tinged with red, the leaves 
numerous, ovate-amplexicaul, under an inch long. Flowers 
twelve to twenty in a bifid or trifid raceme, the bracts thick, 
ovate, one-fourth to three-eighths of an inch long, the pedicels 
spreading, short, thick, two to three lines long. Corolla two to 
two and a half lines long, the divisions lJanceolate-deltoid, equal, 
adpressed to the pale straw-yellow corolla, which is five-eighths 
of an inch deep, the divisions hardly at all pentagonal. 
Midway between cespitosa and farinosa.—J. G. B. 
A very pretty dwarf species, easily increased by offsets and 
seeds. It is not difficult of cultivation, grown in small well- 
drained pots, filled with sandy loam and peat, in an ordinary 
greenhouse. ‘This is another species I obtained from M. L. Van 
Houtte, of Ghent, in 1855, who gives California as its native 
country.—W. W. S. 
