sea-level, S. pilosum is quite hardy in this country when 
grown in well-drained, sunny situations in a stony soil. 
The plant from which our figure has been prepared is one 
which was received at Kew from the Burton Hardy Plant 
Company early in 1911. It had been raised, as were other 
plants already in cultivation but not yet in flower at Kew 
when this plant arrived, from seed sent to England in 1910 
by Messrs. Regel & Kesselring of St. Petersburg. 
Descriprion.—Herb, succulent, 2-3 in. high, glandular- 
pubescent. Leaves 4-2 in. long, ~,-} in. wide, oblong or 
oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, radical densely rosulate, cau- 
line alternate, spreading, rather close together. Flowers 
clustered in a corymbose cyme 3-14 in. across; pedicels 
qy-} in. long. Sepals erect, 1} in. long, oblong, subacute 
or obtuse. Petals erect with recurved tips, + in. long, 
yo-t in. wide, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 
narrowed below into a broad claw, glabrous, rose-pink. 
Stamens 1-1 in. long, glabrous; anthers red. Carpels } in. 
long, below compressed-ovoid, narrowed upwards into the 
short style. 
Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, a flower; 3,a petal; 4,a stamen; 5, carpels with h ous 
glands :—all enlarged. cual ie se aia 
