Tab. 5358. 

 SEDUM Sieboldii. 



Siebold's Stonecrop. 



Nat. Ord. Crassulace^e. — Decandria Pentagynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx pentaphyllus, foliolis ovatis, saepius turgidis. Corolla pe- 

 tala 5, perigyna, plerumque patentia. Stamina 10, perigyna. Squamulm hypo- 

 gynee, integrae vel brevissime emarginatae. Ovaria 5, libera, unilocularia, ovulis 

 ad suturam ventralem plurimis. Capsula folliculares 5, liberae, intus longitu- 

 dinaliter dehiscentes, polyspermse. — Herbae vel suffrutices in temperatis totius 

 orbis, imprimis tamen Europa et Asia media crescentes ; foliis alternis, rariiis op- 

 positis, carnosis, teretibus vel plants, integerrimu aut rarius dentatis ; floribus 

 cymosis, albis purpureis vel c&ruleis ant fiavis, interdum tetra-heptapetalis, octo- 

 tetrudecandris ; squamulis hypogynis integris, tunc a Sempervivis distinguendis. 

 Endl. 



Sedum Sieboldii; suffruticosum, caulibus gracilibus subascendentibus foliosis, 

 foliis glaucis rubro-tinctis ternato-verticillatis orbiculari-cuneatis carnosis 

 concavis grosse sinuato-dentatis, floribus composite cymosis purpureis, fila- 

 mentis alternis brevioribus. 



Sedum Sieboldii. Sweet, Cat. 



A very interesting species of Stonecrop, and very unlike any 

 one known to me, which appears to have been introduced by 

 Messrs. Henderson, Pine-apple Place, from Japan, in 1838, into 

 our gardens, under the name of Sedum Sieboldii, of Sweet ; and 

 such a name is in garden catalogues, but I have failed to find 

 any character or description. Its affinity is perhaps with Sedum 

 ternatum of North America, and the habit is a good deal that 

 of S. Anacampseros. There is in Thunberg's ' Flora Japonica,' 

 p. 350, under "Plantae obscurae," a "Sedum, n. 2, foliis subro- 

 tundis crenatis. Caulis filiformis, flexuosus, erectus, uti planta 

 tota glaber. Folia opposita, sessilia, suborbiculata, crenata, un- 

 guicularia;" which, but for the "folia opposita," I might have 

 been disposed to consider the same as this. The leaves are 

 very beautiful, quite glaucous, with a deep tinge of purple-red, 

 and so concave that they resemble the half of a bivalve shell. 



JANUARY 1ST, 1863. 



