40 THE JurE>"AL or BOTAIVV 



heniiaphrodita. Khizoma crassum, erectum, caulium vetustorum 

 reliqiiiis liaud cinctiim. Caules erecti, l.j-30 cm. alti, basi 8 min. 

 lati, teretes, dense glanduloso-pubescentes. Folia alterna. numerosa, 

 sessilia, 2*5-3 cm. longa. 3-4 mm. lata, anguste oblongo-lanceolata, 

 apice acutiuscula, basi rotiindata, plana, margine obsolete dentata et 

 sfepe reiiexa, subtus glanduloso-pubescentia nervo valde prominente 

 perglanduloso notata. Flores cT plennnque 5-meri, 3 mm. longi, 

 9 mm. lati. longe pedicellati, in cymas terminales umbellatas multi- 

 floras dcnsiiisculas foliosas 2 cm. longas, 4 cm. latas dispositi. Sepala 

 oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa, carnosa, viridia, 2'0 mm. longa, Petala 

 lineari-lanceolata, patentia, 4 mm. longa, apice obtusa perconcava, 

 viridia, basi ])urpurea. Stamina 3*6 mm. Tonga, filamentis pur- 

 pureis, antlieris pallide aureo-rubris. Squamae amplsB, duplo longiores 

 quam latiores, convexo-arcuata?, emarginatse, purpurese. Carpella 

 erecta, atroviridia, 25 mm. longa. Flores : — sepala, petala, stamina, 

 squamse eis fl. masculinae similia ; carpella erecta, viridia, staminibus 

 paulo breviora ; styli erecti, filiformes, 1'5 mm. longi. 



Described (excepting the bennapbrodite flower) from specimens 

 flowered in 1916 from roots received from Edinburgh with the label 

 " Sedum s]). Yunnan, Forrest." No further information regarding 

 these roots is available. Prof. I. Bayley Balfour has kindly sub- 

 mitted four sheets, representing three gatherings, from the Edinburgh 

 Herbariimi, which prove to be the same sj)ecies. The labels read : — 

 "N.W.Yunnan, Pere Mombeig, no. 115." " Tsekou, Mombeig " (no 

 nmuber or date). " On rocks, &c., shrub and forest, 13-14,000 ft,, 

 Doker-la, July 1913, F. K. Ward, no. 744." These specimens, ten in 

 number, are all, like the living plant, male, "Nvitli the exception of one 

 of the Tsekou plants, which is hermaphrodite. In the Kew Herbarium 

 there is also a male specimen, bearing the label " South-w^st China. 

 Sedtim . coll. Pere Mombeig. Received 1908." 



Sednm (§ TELEPHirisr) pseudospectabile, sp. nov. 



Species *S'. speciahili Boreau valde afiinis sed caule altiore, inter- 

 nodiis longioribus, foliis viridibus (nee glaucis) minoribus inter- 

 nodia fequantibus (nee sesquilongioribus), inflorescentia floribusque 

 minoribus facile distinguenda. 



Planta perennis glabra, surculos steriles non edens. Caules annui 

 erecti baud numerosi 30-GO cm. alti, lati 5 mm. basi, simplices. 

 Folia tcmata (nonnunquam opposita aut 4-verticillata), 3'5-5 cm. 

 longa, circ. 3 cm. lata, internodia fecpiantia aut breviora, sessilia, 

 amplexicaulia, inferioi-a obovata, superiora ovata, margine integerrima 

 vel obscure dentata, carnosa, viridia. Inflorescentia terminalis, com- 

 pacta, ])lana, circa 5 cm. longa, 5 cm. lata. Flores rosei, 8 mm. 

 longi, G mm. lati. Sejjala glaucescenti- viridia, apice rubra, ovato- 

 lanceolata, acuta, 2-5 mm. longa, segmentis parte eoncreta triple 

 longioribus. Petala 4'5 mm. longa, ovato-Ianceolata, acutii, erecto- 

 patentia, rosea. Stamina petalis sesquilongiora. Squanueflavescentes, 

 quadratic, incurvata>, paulo cuneata?, sesquilongiores q\iam latiores. 

 Carpella erecta gracilia vii-idia petalis sub;rqui longa. stylis pauluni 

 recurvatis coronata. 



Grown at Edinburgh from seeds I'ollected by i^rof. I. Bayley 

 Balfour in 1910 at Chinwangtao, on the sea -coast due east of 



