Echeveria racemosa Cham. & Schltdl.

Echeveria lurida Haw. in Tayl. Phil. Mag. 10: 418. 1831
Cotyledon lurida Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. 1 : pi. 59. 1869.
Acaulescent, glabrous. Leaves forming a flat, rather open rosette, narrowly oblong, 5-10 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm, broad, somewhat glaucous, acute, tinged with purple, especially when old ; flowering branches 3-5 cm. long, 12-20-flowered ; flowers axillary ; bracts linearlanceolate; pedicels 4-6 mm. long, spreading or the lowest recurved; sepals thick, spreading or even reflexed ; corolla bright-red, 12-15 mm, long.
Only known from garden material, but undoubtedly from Mexico.

Echeveria racemosa Schlecht. & Cham. I^innaea 5 : 554. 1830
Stemless, glabrous and even glaucous. Basal leaves numerous, forming a dense rosette, deep-purple, concave, broad and rather thin or somewhat fleshy, 5 cm, long or less ; flowering branches 1 to several, from the axils of the lower leaves, 2-3 dm. high, ascending, leafy-bracted (the leaves falling off at the merest touch even in growing plants) ; inflorescence a single equilateral raceme, 20-40-flowered ; flowers strictly axillary ; pedicels 2-4 mm. long ; sepals somewhat unequal, acute, ascending ; corolla yellowish, strongly 5angled, 11-12 mm. long, the lobes erect.
Type locality : Jalapa, Mexico. Distribution : Jalapa.