Cotyledon. | L, CRASSULACEH (BRITTEN), 399 
which easily rubs off, 1-2 in. long. Pedunele scapiform, with two pairs 
of oblong-lanceolate bracts, one at the base, the other above the middle, 
glabrous, powdery. Infloreseence a spreading terminal cyme, flowers 
deflexed, nodding, the lowest pendulous. Calyx not exceeding 2 lines 
long, lobes deltoid, subacute, glabrous, powdery. Corolla tubular- 
campanulate, ‘internally and externally of a bright rose colour” ; tube 
cylindrical, }—3 in. long, limb-segments broadly linear, acute, spreading, 
recurved, nearly as long as the tube. Stamens inserted at the base of 
the corolla-tube, the 5 alternate with the corolla-lobes being longer 
than the rest ; filaments bearded and broader at the base. Carpels 5, 
green, conical-cylindrical, Squamule short, broadly linear, trun- 
cate, emarginate, whitish-yellow.—DC. Pl. Grasses, t. 76; Bot. Mag. 
t. 82; Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 371. 
Lower Guinea. Benguela, Mossamedes, Welwitsch! 
Also at the Cape. 
3. C. simensis, Britten. Stem branched from the base, branches 
spreading, prostrate, almost creeping, thick, 8-5 in. long, naked below, 
somewhat ascending above, terminating in a rosette of leaves. Leaves 
narrow spathulate, 1-14 in. long, obtuse or subacute, thick ciliate at: 
the margins with cartilaginous teeth, otherwise glabrous. Scape 
simple, erect, 1-2 in. high, glabrous, bearing 2-7 or more flowers on 
slender densely glandular-pubescent pedicels. Bracts resembling the 
leaves but smaller, Tmcclats or slightly spathulate. Calyx 6-par- 
tite, segments lanceolate, acute, } in. Jong, glandular-pubescent exter- 
nally. Corolla purplish, tubular-campanulate, segments 6, united for 
3 of their length, oblong-lanceolate obtuse, with a reflexed mucro, 
glabrous or externally slightly pubescent. Stamens 12. Carpels 6, 
one smaller than the rest, scarcely tapering.—Sempervivum  simense, 
Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. Umbilicus semiensis, J. Gay in A. Rich. 
Fl. Abyss. i. 308. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
6. SEDUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 659. 
Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, free. Stamens 10, perigynous, the alter- 
nate ones often adnate to the petals; filaments filiform; anthers didy- 
mous. Squamule entire or emarginate. Carpels 5, free, narrowed 
into the style; ovules many. Follicles 5, free, many-seeded.—Glabrous 
herbs, fleshy, decumbent or ciwspitose. Leaves entire, opposite or 
alternate. Flowers cymose, yellow. 
A genus of about 130 species, abundant in temperate and frigid regions of the 
orthern hemisphere, rare in America. The Tropical African species are endemic. 
Stems leafy at the base (only?). . . . . . . . . . « « 1. S& Epidendrum. 
Stems leafy throughout. ...-.-. - se et ee el eh 
1. S. Epidendrum, Hochst.; A. Rich Fl. Abyss. i. 314. Cespitose, 
stem “erect” or spreading, much branched, glabrous, thick, somewhat 
