Refugium Botanicum. | (April, 1870. 
TAB. 200. 
Natural Order CRASSULACEX. 
Genus CoTyLepon, Linn. 
C. prcipiens, Baker. Acaulis, glabra, foliis parvis pallide viridibus 
subteretibus obtusis basi auriculatis, ramorum sterilium nume- 
rosis densis, ramorum floriferorum laxioribus similibus erecto- 
patentibus, floribus 12—15 in corymbum densum ramis_scor- 
ploideis dispositis, pedicellis subnullis, sepalis linearibus equalibus 
ascendentibus corolla alba nullo modo pentagona duplo brevioribus, 
corolle segmentis falcato-patentibus tubo equantibus. 
A native of Peru. 
Barren shoots two to three inches long, often branched. Leaves 
numerous and densely aggregated, pale green, glabrous, the 
largest about half an inch long, subterete, more rounded on the 
back than the face, blunt, spurred at the base. lowering shoots 
arcuate, six to eight inches long, with moderately dense erecto- 
patent leaves just like those of the barren shoots, the upper ones 
smaller. Flowers twelve to fifteen in a close often trifid corymb 
with scorpioid branches. Pedicels scarcely any. Sepals two 
lines long, lanceolate, fleshy, subequal, adpressed to the corolla. 
Corolla pure white, not at all pentagonal, the campanulate tube 
equalling the calyx, the divisions the same length, lanceolate- 
deltoid, spreading falcately in the expanded flower. Outer row of 
stamens inserted low down in the tube. 
Of the American species the only one which this interesting 
novelty at all resembles is C. subulifolia (Monograph, No. 82). 
Till it flowers it has every appearance of a Sedum. In a classi- 
fication founded on characters it must be placed in close neigh- 
bourhood to the Pyrenean Umbilicus sedoides, D.C. 
Tab. 200.—1, single flower, entire; 2, segment of corolla with two 
stamens; 3, carpels and hypogynous scales: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
I obtained this interesting species, which has compactly-set 
leaves much resembling some species of Sedwm, from Peru, 
where it was collected by Mr. Farris. It grows and flowers 
freely, and requires the same treatment as that proposed for 
C. pubescens (Tab. 197).—W. W. S. 
