422 



Lni. CKASSULACE^. (C. B, Clarke.) 



ISedum. 



Flowers 



obovoii. finely striate longitudinally. Zedeb. FL Boss. ii. 185 ; H. f. 8f T. %n 

 Jmirn, Linn. Soc. ii. 102; Boiss. FL Onent ii. 790. S. Urvillei, DC. Prodn 

 iii. 408. ■ 



Punjab Plain; Peshawur, Vicary; Hxirroo and Hassababad, AitcMson, — Dis- 

 TRiB. Affghanistan and thence to Greece. 



Glabrous or minutely glandular -pubescent. Leaves 1 in., oblong to linear. 

 5-merous subsessile, white (or rose ex Boissier). Petals acute, thrice as long as the 

 triangular acute sepals. Cy??;€-branches minutely glandular, divaricate-recurved in 

 fruit. — A species that has been confounded with S, muUicatde ; it differs in its habitat 

 and is absolutely separate by the seed. 



22. S. multlcaule, Wall Cat. 7232 ; glabrous, stem 3-8 in. high usuallv 

 much divided from the base, carpels not tuberculate, seeds obovoid covered with 

 minute tubercles. H. f. ^ T. in Jown. Linn. Soc. ii. 102. S. japomcum, 

 Sieb. Serb, in Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.^Bat. ii. 156. 



Temperate Hoiaiata, alt. 4000-7000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan; frequent. 

 — DisTRiB. China and Japan, _ 



Leaves i-1 in. long, linear-oblong, acute. Flowers subsessile, petals yellow. CyTM 



branches divaricate in fruit, usually elongate, subscorpioid. 



23. S. perpusUlum, H. f. 8^- T. in Joutm. Linn. Soc. ii. 103; glabrous, 

 stems 1-2 in. branching crowded, follicles short oblong turgid small, seeds large 

 (therefore few in each carpel) obovoid hispid with elongate papillse. 



SiKKiM, alt. 12,000 ft., J. D.H. ' 



Leaves ^ in. long, sessile, oblong or linear. Cyme small, leafy. Flowers pedicellate, 

 erect. Sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals white, oblong, a little longer than the sepa^ 

 Follicles connected \ their length.— The specimen referred here by H. f. & T. collectea 

 in the "Western Himalaya has different seeds ; it is in too imperfect a state tor 

 identification. 



7. SBMPS&VXVUIMC, Linn 



FliAcei 



Fleshy herbs, often sending up annual flower-stems from a rosette 

 'wning the perennial rootstock. Leaves alternate. Cymes paniculate. Floioei-B 

 the Indian species 8-merous, more rarely 6-8-merous. Calyx divided n^r^ 

 the base. Petals free, or sp.arpplv nnbarino- nf +Tia bnsft. oblonfiT-lanceolate. 



Stamens double the number of the petals, free. Hypogynous scales small, bina, 

 united in pairs. Carpels equal in number with the petals, free or adnate to tne 

 calyx, narrowed upwards into filiform styles ; ovules very numerous. FolUci^ 

 many-seeded.— DisTRiB. Species 40, extending from the Canary Islands across 

 South Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and the Western Himalaya. 



acuxnlnatum 



inate 



acuminate scarcely pubescent, M. f. 4- T. in. Joum 

 himalayense, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. t. 43. 

 Wall. Cat. 7228. 



Alpine Himalaya, from Kukawur to Kashmir, alt. 10,000-li 

 Tibet, Strachey ^ Winterbottom , &c. 



Stems 4-8 in. high. Kosulate leaves l-2i in. long, obovate-lanc 

 linear ; cauline ^ in., sessile, oblong, acuminate, but little imbrical 

 what lax. Petals glabrous, purple-rose, twice or thrice the sepals 

 obovoidi striate longitudinally. 



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