CRASSULACE. . 399 
Frutex glaber, ramis crassis, carnosis, junioribus farinaceis, ad apices tantum foliosis. Folia 
alterna, sessilia, carnosa, obovato-oblonga vel spathulata, maxima semipollicaria, basi soluta 
et deorsum brevissime producta, apice szpissime retusa, interdum rotundata. Flores albi, 
5-6 lineas diametro, dichotomo-cymosi, subsessiles, cymis paucifloris; sepala carnosa, lineari- 
oblonga, basi soluta, utrinque obtusa; petala lanceolato-oblonga, acuta, dorso supra medium 
carinata, sepalis fere duplo longiora; stamina petalis equilonga; squamule parvee, obovate. 
Carpella 6, subinflata, stylis elongatis rectis coronata. 
Norts Mexico, region of San Luis Potosi, 6000 to 8000 feet (Parry & Palmer, 239). 
Hb. Kew. 
21. Sedum tortuosum, Hemsley, Diag. Pl. Nov. pars 1, p. 10. 
Fruticosum, glabrum, ramosum, ramis crasso-carnosis tortuosis, foliis sparsis alternis spathulatis 
planis, venis (in siccis) conspicuis, floribus (albis?) pedicellatis, sepalis carnosis ineequalibus 
basi productis, petalis (erectis ?) lanceolatis. 
Frutez glaberrimus, ramosus, ramis crasso-carnosis, tortuosis. Folia sparsa, alterna, plana, 
spathulata, obtusa, ad pollicaria, basi soluta, deorsum producta, venis (in siccis) conspicuis. 
Flores (albi?) breviter pedicellati, ad 9 lineas diametro, in cymas parvas terminales dispositi ; 
sepala fere libera, carnosa, valde ineequalia, basi producta, oblonga, obtusa vel obovata ; petala 
(erecta?) lanceolata, acuta, sepalis duplo longiora; stamina 10, filamentis basi dilatatis ; 
squamule carnosz, breves, semiorbiculares. Carpella 5, polysperma, stylis subulatis coronata ; 
semina linearia, fere sesquilineam longa. 
Mexico, without locality (Parkinson). 
A remarkable species in its fleshy, very tortuous branches. 
22. Sedum wrightii. 
Herbaceum, perenne, glabrum, decumbens vel suberectum, foliis sparsis crasso-carnosis obovatis 
oblongisve, floribus amplis albis roseo tinctis. 
_ Herba perennis, glabra, decumbens vel suberecta, 6-9-pollicaris, ramis subcarnosis. Folia sparsa, 
crasso-carnosa, obovato-oblonga, 3-5 lin. longa. Flores albi, roseo tincti, ampli, numerosi, 
brevissime pedicellati, in cymas terminales bracteatas plurifurcatas dispositi, bracteis foliis 
simillimis ; calycis lobi oblongi, obtusi, 23-3 lin. longi, vix carnosi, trinerves ; petala 4—5 lin. 
longa, oblongo-spathulata, apiculata; stamina 10, filamentis dilatatis, petalis equilongis ; 
squamule parve, apice rotundate. Carpella 5, stylis subulatis arcuatis coronata—A. Gray, 
Pl. Wright. i. p. 76. Se 
New Mexico.—Norra Mexico, Mount Caruel, Chihuahua, and Puerto de Paysano, 
Sonora (Ligelow) ; Santa Cruz, Sonora (Wright). Hb. Kew. 
[DRosrRAcEa#.—Of this order we have seen no specimen or record of any species 
having been found in our territory ; but it is likely to occur, as there are several species 
in North America (two of them reaching California) and also several in South 
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