TAB. 8822. 
COTYLEDON opposiITIFOLIA. 
Caucasus. 
CRASSULACEAE. 
CoryLepon, Linn., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659, 
Cotyledon oppositifolia, Ledeb. ex Nordm. in Bull. Acad. Sct. St. Pétersb. 
vol. ii. (1837) p. 313; herba perennis, foliis oppositis decussatis, floribus 
in paniculam laxam dispositis insignis. 
Herba perennis, glabra, basi prostrata, radicans. Caules glabri, erecti, 
15-25 em. longi. Jolia opposita, decussata, subcarnosa, breviter petiolata, 
elliptica vel ovato-elliptica, obtusa, crenata, 2°5-4°5 em. longa, 1°5-3 em, 
lata, planiuscula vel subconcava, glabra; petiolus circiter 1 cm. longus. 
Racemi ramosi, paniculam laxam formantes, multifiori ; bracteae lineares, 
acutae, 2 mm. longae. lores parvi, breviter pedicellati. Calyx 5- 
partitus ; lobi ovato-oblongi, subobtusi, 1 mm. longi. Corolla ellipsoidea, 
3-4 mm. longa, 5-fida, flavescens; lobi erecti, apiculati. Stamina 10; 
filamenta infra faucem corollae inserta. Carpella 5, 3 mm. longa; 
squamae nectariferae oblongae. Capsulae 5, apiculatae.—Umbilicus 
oppositifolius, Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 176; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. ii. 
p. 775.—R. A. Rours. 
The Crassulaceous plant here figured appears to be 
rather rare in collections as well as in nature. It was 
originally collected in woods on the Abkhasia Range in 
the Caucasus, at the base of Mount Hirtscha, by Nord- 
mann some eighty years ago, and Boissier has recorded 
its collection subsequently in the Caucasus by Owerin 
and by Radde. There is in the heibarium at Kew a 
specimen gathered by Nordmann and communicated by 
Ledebour, while there is another obtained in 1893 by 
Alboff, on alpine rocks on Mount Migaria. It is not 
certain how long it has been in cultivation in England 
or by whom it was first introduced ; the material for our 
plate was supplied by Miss Willmott, in whose garden 
at Warley Place it flowered in June, 1916. A graceful 
plant, with opposite decussate, somewhat crenate flattish 
leaves and small yellow flowers borne on branched spikes 
so as to form an open panicle, the species is somewhat 
OcroBpeR-DECEMBER, 1919. 
