400 L., CRASSULACEH (BRITTEN). [ Sedum. 
tetragonous ; leaves few, very thick, glabrous, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
obtuse, 1-2 in. long, mode of attachment in our specimens uncertain. 
Flowers erect or ascending, in few-flowered compact rounded cymes, on - 
slender peduncles. Calyx persistent, segments lanceolate, acute, about 
1 line long. Petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, spreading, three times as 
long as the calyx. Carpels oblong, glabrous, acuminate, normally 5 
but often fewer by abortion. Squamulee membranous, linear, truncate, 
about as long as the calyx. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, upon trees, Schimper ! 
The leaves have almost all fallen away from the specimens I have seen. ’ 
2. S. Schimperi, Britten. Cwspitose; stems spreading, much 
branched, glabrous, thick, leafy to the inflorescence; leaves opposite, 
entire, oblanceolate-spathulate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rather 
thick, much narrowed below. Flowers in terminal branched rather 
dense rounded cymes. Calyx-segments deltoid-lanceolate, obtuse, 1 line 
long. Petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, twice as long as the calyx. 
Squamulz linear-lanceolate, as long as the calyx. Carpels as in S. 
Epidendrum. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Much resembles the preceding in the flowers, but the leaves are quite different. 
7. SEMPERVIVUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 660. 
Calyx 6—10-fid or partite. Petals 6-10, lanceolate, free or connate 
at the base and united with the filaments, acute. Stamens twice as 
many as the petals, free or united with the petals, filaments filiform or 
dilated at the base ; anthers ovate or didymous. Squamulz square or 
linear, dentate or subentire. Carpels as many as the petals, immersed 
at the base in the calyx-tube, lengthened into slender styles, with capi- 
tellate stigmas. Ovules many. Follicles many-seeded.—Herbs or 
shrubs, thick, fleshy, often acaulescent, emitting leafy branches, or with 
leafy stems. Leaves alternate, thick, fleshy. Cymes paniculate, often 
dense. Flowers white or yellow. 
An Old World genus, of about 40 species, represented in Central and South Europe, 
the Canary Isles, Asia Minor, and the Himalayas. The African species are endemic. 
Stem thick, suffruticose. Flowers usually 8-merous . . . . . 1. S. carysanthum. 
Stem slender, herbaceous. Flowers 10—12-merous. 
Wine cams SOluly Villa i938, Bele. 
Whole plant glabrous aoe. 3. S. abyssinicum. 
1. S. chrysanthum, Hochst. Stem thick, suffruticose, 1-2 ft. high; 
leaves pectinate-ciliate, on barren shoots rosulate, roundish-ovate 
stem-leaves obovate-oblong, rounded above, apiculate. Inflorescence ® 
thyrsoid corymb, peduncles long, glabrous, ascending. Flowers sub-8- 
merous. Calyx hypocrateriform, with short triangular teeth. Petals 
yellow, linear-lanceolate. Filaments dilated at the base, united above 
in a tube with the petals; anthers roundish-ovate. Squamul square, 
with two teeth. Carpels glabrous, erect, immersed at the base in the 
