shallow pans, and is suitable for a greenhouse. The 

 genus Sedum comprises about 150 species, spread all round 

 the northern hemisphere, and about thirty are known to 

 inhabit Mexico. They present great variety in habit and 

 aspect, from the lowly 8. cupressoides to 8. dendroid eum, 

 an erect, branching shrub. 



Descr. — A trailing, much-branched, succulent, obscurely 

 puberulous, perennial herb, with erect or ascending 

 flowering-stems, four to six inches high. Leaves opposite, 

 or sub-opposite, sessile, slightly flattened at the point of 

 attachment, longer than the internodes, thick, fleshy, 

 ovoid or ellipsoid in shape, a quarter of an inch to half an 

 inch long, and about three-quarters of an inch in girth, 

 becoming red-brown. Flowers yellow, pentamerous, seven 

 to nine lines in diameter, arranged in few-branched, 

 terminal cymes ; branches of the cymes recurved ; pedicels 

 very short. Sepals puberulous, somewhat fleshy, erect, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, scarcely half as long as the petals. 

 Petals lanceolate, with a short, dorsal, horn-like appendage 

 just below the apex, spreading horizontally from below 

 the middle. Stamens ten, erect, shorter than the petals. 

 Carpels clavate, glabrous. — W. B. H. 



Fig. l,a leaf; 2, a flower-bnd; 3, an expanded flower; 4 and 5, stamens; 

 6, disk and gynaeceum : — all enlarged. 



