894: -CRASSULACEA, 
5. Sedum cupressoides, Hemsley, Diag. Pl. Nov. pars 1, p. 11. (Tab. XXI.) 
Suffrutescens, procumbens, humile, ramosum, ramis gracilibus, foliis incrassatis parvis ovato-. 
teretibus dense appresso-imbricatis, floribus solitariis vel paucis ageregatis. 
Suffrutex glaberrimus, ramosus, procumbens, 4-6-pollicaris, ramis gracilibus, dense foliosis. Folia 
incrassata, parva, sessilia, imbricata, ovato-teretia, obtusa, vix lineam longa, basi soluta et late 
expanso-gibbosa. Flores rosei, sessiles, ad 8 lineas diametro, in cymas parvas laterales 
dispositi, vel seepius solitarii et terminales ; calycis lobi subcarnosi, breves, ovato-oblongi ; petala 
rosea (Galeotti), lanceolata, acuta, calycis lobis quadruplo longiora; filamenta filiformia, petalis 
breviora ; squamulz parvee, truncatz vel retuse. Carpella angusta, stylis elongatis subulatis 
coronata. . 
SourH Muxico, rocks at 7000 feet in the Cordillera of Oaxaca (Galeotti, 2811), 
without exact locality (Jurgensen, 672). Hb. Kew. | ; 
A curious plant, reminding one of the South-African Crassula lycopodioides ; but it 
is of more slender habit. 
EXPLANATION OF TAB. XXI. 
The plants, natural size. 
Fig. 1, leaves in different positions; 2, portion of branch bearing a solitary terminal flower ; 3, a 
fully expanded flower ; 4, a flower from the specimen with lateral inflorescence ; 5, gyneectum : 
all enlarged. : 
6. Sedum dendroideum, Moc. et Sessé (char. emend.). 
Fruticosum, erectum, ramosum, glabrum, ramis crassis carnosis, foliis carnosis obovato-spathulatis 
vel fere rotundatis sessilibus basi solutis deorsum leviter productis, floribus cymoso-paniculatis 
sessilibus, calycis lobis late ovatis obtusis triplo quam petala brevioribus, petalis late lanceolatis 
acutis, squamulis parvis truncatis vix emarginatis. . . 
Frutex erectus, ramosus, glaberrimus, ramis crasso-carnosis, versus apices tantum foliosis. Folia 
sessilia, carnosa, obovato-spathulata vel fere rotundata, basi soluta, deorsum leviter producta, 
4-14 poll. longa, sparsa vel in ramis sterilibus rosulata. Flores pentameri, flavi, 5-6 lin. 
diametro vel ultra, sessiles, bracteati, secundi, cymoso-paniculati, paniculis amplis, densis ; 
calycis lobi late ovati, obtusi, breves; petala late lanceolata, acuta, ad 3 lin. longa; filamenta 
basi dilatata; squamule parve, truncate, leviter retuse. Carpella polysperma, stylis subulatis 
coronata.—Mog. et Sessé in DC. Mém. Crass. p. 37, t. 9. 
SoutH Mexico, Barranca, valley of Mexico (Bourgeau, 1421). Hb. Kew. 
De Candolle’s description of this species was made from a drawing, and is consequently 
incomplete. Bourgeau’s specimens correspond so well with the figure quoted above, 
that they may be regarded as typical, in conjunction with this fuller description. 
7. Sedum ebracteatum, Moc. et Sessé (char. emend.). 
Herbaceum, ramis sterilibus brevissimis foliis dense rosulatis, ramis floriferis erectis foliis distanti- 
bus, foliis carnosis albo-puberulis oblongis obtusiusculis, cymis patentibus, floribus sessilibus 
bracteatis, calycis lobis lanceolatis subcrassis glandulosis, petalis albo-flavescentibus duplo 
_. longioribus quam lobi calycis. 
Herba: rami steriles brevissimi, foltis dense rosulatis; floriferi erecti, pedales, foliis distanti- 
bus. Folia carnosa, albido-pubescentia, ovali-oblonga, 9-15 lineas longa, basi lata, ramorum 
floriferorum subamplexicaulia, omnia obtusiuscula. Flores pentameri, albo-flavescentes, 
