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Hab. In Himalaya occidentali subalpina. Kumaon ! et Garwhal ! alt. 



10,000-12,000 ped. ! Edgeworth, Strachey Sf Winterbottom. (fl. Aug.) 

 Sepala subulato-lanceolata, submembranacea, petalis triente breviora, 



dense glandulosa. Petala basi connata, lineari-laneeolata, aristata, 



carina dense glanduloso-pilosa. Stamina sub 16, FoUiculi sub 6, 



stylo filiformi breviusculo. 



3. Sempervivum sedoides (Dene in Plant. Jacq. t. 74. f. 2). Foliis 

 radiealibus rosulatis lineari-oblongis obtusis tenuissime glanduloso- 

 [)ilosis, caulinis lineari-obovatis, sepalis obovatis obtusis, petalis (sub 8) 

 calycem staminaque superantibus ovatis lanceolatisve aeutiuseulis, 

 ovariis attenuatis tenuissime glanduloso-pilosis. 



Hab. Himalaya occidentali alpina. Kunawur et Kashmir, Jacquemont. 



4. Sempervivum album {Edgew. in Linn. Trans, xx. 49). Foliis 

 ciliatis radiealibus rosulatis obcuneatis carnosis, caulinis confertis 

 imbricatis ovatis, sepalis pubescentibus petalis duplo brevioribus, 

 petalis ovatis ciliatis albis. — An var. S. sedoidis foliis caulinis ma- 

 joribus ? 



Hab. In Himalaya occidentali tenaperata. Kumaon, alt. 7000-8000 

 ped. ! Edgeworth. 



Gen. VII. Sebum, L. 



The Sedwns are most abundant in the alpine, subalpine, and 

 temperate regions of the Himalaya ; in the former they are a 

 very conspicuous feature of the vegetation of rocky, stony, or 

 otherwise very barren places, where those of the Mhodiola section 

 especially form large rounded patches of a deep green colour in 

 spring, becoming a bright or lurid red or purple in autumn ; some 

 of them attain 18,000 feet of elevation, which is almost the limit 

 of vegetable life. Though a few species are found as low as 4000 

 feet in the Western Himalaya, and 6000 in the Eastern, not one 

 has been found in the Khasia Mountains, or in any part of India 

 south of the Himalaya. The genus Saxifraga is the only other 

 Himalayan one containing a great number of species which oflers 

 at all a parallel case to this, only one of its species being found 

 in the Khasia, and none elsewhere in India. 



The following sketch of the Himalayan Sedums requires more 

 indulgence than even the Saxifrages, from the extreme difficulty 

 of limiting the species in a living state, and the still greater one 

 of detecting the characters of the dried ones. We have found it 

 difficult to indicate any one organ as affording good characters 

 throughout large suites of species, or of specimens of a species. 

 Nevertheless they all resolve themselves into very natural groups, 



