Tab. 7908. 

 SEDUM Stahlh. 



Native of Mexico. 



Nat. Ord. CkassulacEjE. 

 Genus Sedum, Linn.; {Benth, et Hoolc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 659.) 



Sedum Stahlii ; herba perennis, multicaulis, dense ramosa, caulibus vel ramis 

 florigeris erectis vel adscendentibus graciliusculis foliisqne primutn 

 minutissime puberulis 4-6 poll, longis, foliis oppositis vel suboppositis 

 sessilibuscrassis carnosis oblongo-ovoideis ellipticisve |-f poll. longis ambitu 

 circiter f poll, rubescentibus vel rubigiuosis, floribus pentameris luteis 

 7-9 lin. diametro in cymas terminates pauciramosas diopositis, cymaa 

 ramulis recnrvis, pedicellis brevissimis, sepalis puberulis snbcarnosis 

 ereetia lineari-oblongis obtusis petalis saltern dimidio brevioribus, petalis 

 lanceolatis dorso infra apicem corniculatis divaricatis, staminibus 10 

 erectis petalis brevioribus, disci squamis truncatis, carpellis 5 clavatis 

 glabris. 



S. Stablii, Solms ; Mehnelt in GartenivcM, 1902, p. 316, ex Wiener Illustrirte 

 Gartenzeitung, 1902, p. 220. 



This Sedum was sent by Professor Count H. von Solms 

 Laubach to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in May, 

 1900, for identification, with the information that it had 

 been collected in Mexico by a Mr. Stahl, of Jena, and 

 had been in cultivation several years without producing 

 flowers. He was informed that it was different from 

 anything at Kew, either in the herbarium or garden. 

 Thereupon he sent a living plant to Kew, with the name 

 8, Stahlii ; yet he does not appear to have published a 

 description of the plant. In an editorial paragraph in the 

 Wiener Gartenzeitung, cited above, it is stated that a Mr. 

 Rehnelt had described it in the Gartenwelt (1902, p. 316), 

 a publication to which I have not access at the present 

 time; therefore the description has been wholly drawn up 

 from the plant that flowered at Kew. Count Solms states, 

 in his original communication concerning this species, that 

 the leaves readily fall off, when a bud is soon formed at 

 the base and develops into an independent plant. I have 

 not been able to ascertain whether the foundation of this 

 bud is formed before the leaf falls, but I think it is quite 

 probable that it is. 8. Stahlii is a very rapid growing 

 species, speedily forming a carpet, planted out or in 



August 1st, 1903. 



