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■Sedum.'] ' Liii. CEASSULACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 421 



pubescent stem and sepals : but the only absolute distinction appears to lie in the 

 more acute petals. 



17. S. Griffithii, C. B. aarke-, stems 2-4 



cyme leafy corymlx); 



H.f. 



petals white elliptic lanceolate. 

 unn. Soc. ii. 101. 



Bhotan; Griffith. 



H. f. & T. probably joined this with S, adenotrichum because of the acute petals ; 

 T)ut in all other points, especially its weakness and glabrousness, it is nearer S, rosu* 

 latum. ^ It differs from both in the linear cauline leaves and particularly in the cyme, 

 which is corymbose and somewhat dense, with linear bracts like the cauline leaves, 



' 18. S. truUipetalum, H.f. 8f T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 102 ; glabrous, 



stems 2-4^ in., cauline leaves ^ in. imbricate lanceolate-linear acute, cymes 



dense, petals "white-yellow with a very long claw and ovate cordate or lanceolate 

 lunb. 



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Temperate and Alpine Himalaya from Sikkim to Kashmir, alt. 11,000-16,000 ft. 

 Eosulate leaves ^in. long, ovate-lanceolate. Sepals elliptic- lanceolate, acute. 



19. S. Jaescllkei, Ku7'z in Seem, Journ, Hot. v. 240; annual, leaves 

 spathulate-oblong acute often rosulate, flowers large golden solitary. 



liAHUL, in West Tibet ; JaeschJce. . 



Branches 4-5 in. or less, crowded, simple, or branched from the base. Lower 

 leaves generally densely rosulate ; cauline scattered, smaller, narrower, or crowded 

 towards the end of the branches. Flowers solitary at the end of the branches or 

 crowded in dwarf specimens, nearly ^ in. long. Calyx segments J-^ in. long, 

 fleshy, green, similar to and often larger than the leaves. Petals double the sepals, 

 ^nceolate, obtuse. Stamens less than half the length of the petals. 

 , The above is closely copied from Mr. Kurz, who evidently possessed better mate- 

 ■^als than certain scraps transmitted to Kew by Jaeschke and referred by Dr. 

 Thomson to S. asiaticuin, which has not the elongate leafy branches of the corymb. 



There are several points however in which Mr. Kurz* description does not fit the 

 lowering slips (3 in. long) at Kew ; Mr. Kurz says that the leaves are shorter than 

 ^^e sepals which are but 3 to 4 lines long ; in the Kew examples the leaves on the 

 ^rymb branches are ^ in. long and more. The Kew slips may however belong to 

 examples of S, asiaticum in its first year of fiowering. 



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20. S. Ewersil, Ledeh. Fl Alt. ii. 191; glabrous, stems 4-12 in., cauline 

 teaves ^-1 in. diam. remote obovate or orbicular opposite or some of the upper- 

 most alternate, cymes usually dense, flowers rose-j)urple. Ledeh. Fl Ross. ii. 

 182, and Ic. Fl. Boss. t. 58 ; H.f^Sf T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 102. S. Gerar- 

 Planum, Wall. Cat. 7235. S. azureum, Royle HI. t. 48. S. rubrum, Royle lU. 

 P* 222 ; Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 47. 



. Tempkrate and Alpine Himalaya from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 9000-1 7.000 ft. ; 

 Sequent.— DisTRiB. Alpine Siberia and Soongaria. 



Xcai-c^ fleshy, glaucous, entire or sinuate. Cyynes sometimes less dense, corymbose 

 ^th alternate branches. That the flowers are ever blue appears to rest wholly on 

 Kyle's figure. Seeds elliDSoid, somewhat obovoid, testa not loose. 



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Follicles 3-5, divaricate infiniit 



^ -^1- S. pallldixm, Bieh. Fl. Taur. Catw. i. 353 and in. 314 ; stems 1-5 m. 

 •"^^al solitary cvmose at too. carpels minutely squamose-tuberculate, seeds 



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