418 i^ni. CRAssuLACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Sedum. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 12,000-18,000 ft.; Yeumtong and Mt. Donkiah, J. B. R, 

 W. T. Blandford. Ktjmaon, alt. 12,000-17,000 ft., Chumpua and Niti Pass, Stracfmi 



^ Winterbottom. . • r»i 



Dried specimens are a ruddy chestnut colour. Stems 3-8 in. — Very like 8,Eho- 



diola, of which it may be a variety. 



** Cymes 1- fetc-Jloxvered {except S. tibeticum), or in fruit somewhat tor, 

 hranches not hearing leaves (though there may he bracts at their bases), 



4. S. tibeticum, H. / ^ T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 96 ; leaves 8uT)entire 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, cymes 4-20-flowered not very dense in fruit, flowers 

 often 5-merous, sepals on the fmit triangular-acuminate. 



Alpine Western Himalaya, alt. 12,000-16,000 ft.; Kunavtub (Werang Pass) 

 7; Thomson ; Lauul, JaeschJce, — Distrib. Cabul, Griffith, 



Glabrous. Stems 4-10 in. Leaves ^-\ in., loosely imbricate, the upper oblong 

 subacute, the lower often ovate. Petals rose or purple. Follicles and seeds as m 

 S, Rhodiola, 



Var. Stracheyi, H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 96 (sp.); leaves ovate often 

 tithed. Alpine Western Himalaya, alt. 12,000-17,000 ft., T. Thomson, Strachey ^ 

 Winterbottom, Dr. Render son, —Th^ leaves sometimes entire, and the upper oblong . 

 it then seems undistinguishable from S. tibeticum, 



5. S. quadrlfidum, Pall ; DC. Prodr, iii. 407 ; stems 2-6 in. i^^^^JJ^' 

 leaves approximate oblong subterete, cymes 5-1-flowered, flowers red oite 

 4-meroufl, sepals oblong. Ledeh. FL Ross, ii. 177 ; H.f-Sf T. in Journ. Linn, 

 Soc, ii. 07. S. coccineum, Royle IlL t. 48. 



Alpine Western Himalaya, alt. 11,000-18,000 ft., from Kumaon to KasSMT^ 

 frequent. Sikkim, alt. 16,000-18,000 ft., J". D. J?.— Distrib. Arctic Bussia ana 

 Siberia. \^ 



StcTUS and leaves fflabrous or nubfimlnns. T^paveR 4 in., sometimes very act 



Petals usually twice the sepals. Hypogynous scales subquadra 

 Follicles with short styles, recurved or sometimes erect, straight. 



) 



I 



«•* 



bract. 



Cymes lax^ branches beaiiing leaves, or thejiowers supported by a l^VV 



6. S. Himalense, Don Prodr, 212; leaves J-f in. loosely i^^^^^ 

 narrow-obovate or lanceolate often dentate towards the summit, ^T^^ ^3^ 

 leafy, sepals lanceolate-linear, petals deep purple twice the sepals, F^ T^ 

 mucli thickened under the fruit. DC Prodr. iii, 402 ; -ff. /. Sf T. ^/S 

 Linn, Soc, ii. 97. S. Himalayanum and S. hjTpericifolium, Wall. Cat, i^o , 

 7237, 



SiKKiM and NiPAL, alt. 12,000-17,000 ft., frequent ; Wallich, J. P. H., &c. j^^ 

 Stems 4-14 in., usually puberulous or pubescent, sometimes glabrous, 

 lanceolate. Hypogynous scales black-purple, broadly triangular (ex H. i- ^^^^ 

 Follicles i in. long, black-purple.— ^S. atropurpureum, Turcz. of Central Asia 

 among other things by its compact cyme. 



^ 7. S. bupleuroides, Wall. Cat. 7229 ; leaves ^-1^ in. long ^^^^^^\^ 



bricate ovate or ovate-oblong, base cordate or auriculate-bilobate, ^^, ^e 

 leafy, sepals lanceolate-linear, petals lanceolate small black-purple twic 

 sepals. H,f. Sf T,in Journ, Ltnn, Soc. ii. 98. - ,; 



NiPAx; GoBsain Than, Wallich. SiZKor, alt. 10,000-14,000 ft. ; Tungn, a^ 



^ L ^ 



f 





