fefugium Botanieum. | [February, 1869. 
Lebar iis 
29. C. rarinosa (Baker). Glabra, breviter vel segre caulescens, foliis 
‘ i ice crassis ligulato-le 1S, 6 u n- 
dense rosulatis, modice crassis ligulato-lanceolatis, quadruplo lon 
gioribus quam latis, acutis, basi dilatatis, utrinque primum omnino 
. Fi . . . . . 
: 1 glauco-viridibus, rat loriferorum numerosis 
farinosis, demum glauco-viridibus, ramorum floriferoruam numerosis, 
parvis, ovato-amplexicaulibus, floribus 20—30 im cymum copiose 
ramosum ramis scorpioideis patentibus dispositis, bracteis ovatis, 
parvis, pedicellis crassis, brevibus, erecto-patentibus, sepalis lanceo- 
1S, ibus, nti rolla flava ultr reviori- 
latis, eequalibus, ascendentibus, corolla flava ultra duplo brevior 
.— Kcheveria farinosa, Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. p. 292; 
bus Echeveria nosa, Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. 1 292 
Walp. Ann. u. p. 669. 
California. 
Glabrous, slightly rosulate. The leaves twenty to thirty in a 
dense rosette, ligulate-lanceolate, the longest two and a half to 
three inches long by five-eighths to three-quarters of an inch 
broad half-way up, hardly narrowed downwards, the base dilated, 
narrowed upwards to an acute point, the centre two lines thick, 
not at all coneave on the faee, both sides quite white-farinose 
when young, fading to a decidedly glaucous-green with a very 
faint reddish tinge. Flowering branch a foot high, stout, with 
numerous cordate-amplexicaul leaves under an inch long. 
Flowers twenty to thirty in a cyme, with scorpioid spreading 
main branches, the thick cordate-amplexicaul bracts two to three 
lines long. Pedicels thick, ascending, not more than one-eighth 
of an inch long. Sepals a quarter of an inch long, broad- 
lanceolate, equal, ascending. Corolla yellow, half to five-eighths 
of an inch long, searcely at all pentagonal. 
This and the three preceding nearly coincide in ealyx and 
eorolla:—F. G. DB: 
A delicate and beautiful species, the leaves of which are 
densely covered, when in good condition, with a white meal-like 
powder. It 1s most impatient of water, either at the roots or on 
the leaves, and requires much attention to keep it in health. 
I find it does well, grown in small well-drained pots, in a mixture 
of turfy loam, peat, sand and leaf-mould, and kept in a dry, airy, 
light greenhouse. It can be increased by cuttings and seeds. 
My plant came from the collection of Mons. L. V. Houtte at 
Ghent, in 1855, and was stated to be from California.—W. IV. S. 
