Graptopetalum amethystinum (Rose) Walther

Pachyphytum amethystinum Rose, sp. nov
Shortly caulescent, perhaps 1 dm. high or more. Leaves scattered along the stem, very thick but flattened, oblanceolate, obtuse, about 4 cm. long, glaucous and with a beautiful amethyst tinge ; peduncles weak ; inflorescence somewhat compound, few-flowered ; pedicels slender ; calyx small, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, almost acute ; corolla bluish in herbarium specimens, small, about 8 mm. long, cleft to below the middle but with a tube longer than the calyx ; stamens not appendaged.
Collected by J. N. Rose on^the top of the high Sierra^Madre west of Bolanos, Jalisco, September 15 to 17, 1897 {no. 2993).
Mr. Rose sent back a flowering branch and a living plant of this species which he has had under observation for seven years. It resembles Pachyphytum bracteosum. in habit and foliage, but its flower-structure is so very different that it is referred to this genus with considerable hesitancy.

Graptopetalum amethystinum, also called jewel-leaf plant, is a plant belonging to the succulent genus Graptopetalum. It is native to Mexico.