236 ox A NEW SPECIES OF SEDUM. 



13. X. plicata, Spreng. — Yellosia plicata, Mart. Nov. Gen. i., p. 

 16, t. 9. 



14. X. triquetra, Baker. — Yellosia triquetra, Pohl, Ic, i., 129. 



15. X. cinerascens, Roem. et Schult, vii., 292. — Yellosia cine- 

 rascens, Mart. 



16. X. ah'etina, Spreng. — Yellosia abietina, J/fl^r^. Nov. Gen., t. 6. 



17. X. tragacantha, Roem. et Schult., vii., 290. 



18. X. Selloi, Baker. — Yellosia Sellowi, Seub. in Mart. Fl. Bras., 

 vol. iii., p. 74. 



19. X. minima^ Baker. — Yellosia minima, Fohl. Ic. i. 119, t. 94. 



20. X. taxifolia, Roem. et Schult. vii. 291. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OE ^^7)J7^/ DieCOYERED BY THE 

 LATE JOHN STUART MILL IN ASIA MINOE. 



By J. G. Baker. 



Amongst the plants of the late J. S. Mill which have been pre- 

 sented by Miss Helen Taylor to the Kew Herbarium are full and com- 

 plete specimens of a very distinct species of Sedum, marked by him 

 ** Sedum, species nova," and gathered by himself between Brusa and 

 Gimlek, in Anatolia, in July, 1862. As it is not included in Boissier's 

 '* Flora Orientalis," and still remains unnamed and undescribed, I 

 wish now^to place it on record. 



Sedum Millii, Baker, n. sp. — Perennial. Stems half a foot to a 

 foot long, decumbent in the lower half, then assurgent, 1-1^ lines 

 thick, terete, clothed throughout not very thickly with short, spread- 

 ing, or deflexed whitish hairs. Internodes of the flowering stems an 

 inch to an inch and a half long. Leaves in opposite decussate pairs, 

 sessile, blunt, entire, oblong, with a cuneate base, obscurely ciliated 

 on the edges, 12 to 21 lines long, ^ to f inch broad at the middle. 

 Flowers in a very lax terminal cyme, with two to five, usually three, 

 scorpioid branches, which are mostly two or three inches long, and 

 bracteated at the base by leaves like those of the stem considerably 

 reduced. Flowers not more than 6-8 to the longest branches, so that 

 they are l-i^ inch apart, the lower on short thick pedicels, the 

 upper subsessile. Sepals lanceolate, glabrous, | inch deep. Petals 

 linear, acuminate, bright red, three times as long as the sepals. 

 Stamens half as long as the petals, the anthers oblong, red-purple. 

 Carpels glabrous, I inch long, the inner side distinctly angled just 

 above the base, and the carpel spreading almost horizontally 

 above this angle. Style half a line long, tipped with the minute 

 capitate stigma. 



The plant, by its general habit, spaced opposite blunt leaves and 

 showy bright red flowers, recalls at once S. oppositifolium, Sims (Bot. 

 Mag., t. 1807), and S. spurium, M. Bieb. (Bot. Mag., t. 2370), both of 

 which are common in cultivation. From both these it is separated at 



