Echeveria cuspidata Rose ex Britton & Rose

Echeveria cuspidata
Add: Illustration: Monats. Kakt. 17: 185.
22. Insert:
36a. Echeveria subalpina Rose & Purpus, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 45. 1910.
Acaulescent. Basal leaves arranged in open rosettes, linear-oblanceolate, with reddish
. attenuate tips, 7-10 cm. long, glaucous; flowering stem usually simple; inflorescence a
secund raceme, 8-10 flowered; pedicels very short; sepals ascending; corolla 12 mm. long,
red without, yellowish within; petals blunt.
Type locality: Subalpine regions of Orizaba, Mexico. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Echeveria cuspidata Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 9. 1903
Acaulescent. Leaves in a dense rosette, sometimes a hundred or more, very glaucouson both sides, somewhat tinged with red, obovate in outline, about 6 cm. long, often 3.5 cm. broad at widest point, cuspidate ; flowering stalk 2-A dm. long, glabrous and pale, sometimes rose-colored, bearing throughout its length scattered small ovate leaves free at base and acute at each end ; inflorescence a simple secund raceme, at first strongly nodding, about 15-flowered; buds arranged in two rows, obtusish ; lower pedicels elongated, 10 mm. long or less; sepals unequal, all much shorter than the corolla, ovate, acute; corolla 1 cm. long, ptirplish with yellowish slightly spreading acute tips, the lobes united for about one-fourth their length ; stamens 10, all inserted on the corolla-tube, the 5 opposite the sepals inserted at the top of the tube, the other 5 inserted a little lower down on the tube ; carpels erect, free to the base.
Type locality : Saltillo, Mexico.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.