Refugium Botanicum. } (April, 1870. 
TAB. 197. 
Natural Order CRASSULACES. 
Genus CotynEpon, Linn. 
Section Ecurveris, D.C. 
C. puBEscENS (Baker, Mon. No.1). Longe caulescens, dense griseo- 
pubescens, foliis aggregatis, obovato-spathulatis, acutis, duplo lon- 
gioribus quam latis, e basi tertii superioris spathulatim angustatis, 
utrinque pallide viridibus, ramorum floriferorum plus minus reductis, 
floribus 15—25 subdense spicatis, bracteis linearibus, inferioribus 
floribus excedentibus, sepalis linearibus inzequalibus patulis, corolla 
flavo-rubra subeequantibus. — Echeveria pubescens, Schlecht. Linn. 
xiii. 411; Hort. Hal. t.9; Walp. Rep. ii. 295. 
A native of Mexico. 
Stems grayish or reddish brown, like the rest of the plant 
between shaggy and velvety with gray pubescence, often one or 
two feet high and an inch thick, marked with the round scars of 
the fallen leaves. Leaves obovate-spathulate, eight to twelve 
aggregated towards the apex of the stem in a lax rosette, the 
largest three to three and a half inches long by an inch and 
a half broad, spathulately narrowed from two-thirds of the way 
up, the point subacute, the base subterete, two to three lines 
thick, the blade half as thick, the face concave, the colour a pale 
green, tinged with red in fading, and both sides so densely 
pubescent that in some lights they look nearly white. Flowering 
branch, including the spike, a foot high, the leaves numerous, in 
shape like those of the'rosette, but growing smaller gradually as 
we ascend. Spike occupying about half the branch, composed of 
fifteen to twenty-five flowers, the upper ones dense, the lower 
ones moderately so. Bracts linear, the lower ones exceeding the 
flowers. Sepals linear, very fleshy, unequal, spreading, the 
longest equalling the corolla, which is distinctly pentagonal, five- 
eighths of an inch deep, bright red on the outside when mature, 
yellow within, the acute lanceolate-spathulate divisions reaching 
half-way down. 
Tab. 197. — 1, an entire flower; 2, its carpels and hypogynous scales : 
both magnified.—J. G. B. 
