SOME >EW SPECIES UE SEDUM 4?.'3 



but a fine flowering specimen was sent to me last September by 

 Mr, E. A. Bowles, from which the preceding description is drawn up- 

 Normally I think in autmnn, but in cultivation irregularly, the 

 linear leaves give way to a dense subglobular spiny bud recalling 

 the winter condition of Cotyledon sj^inosa L. ; after the resting- 

 stage this develops first into flat fleshy cuneate-spathulate spine- 

 ti})ped leaves, the edges of which in the upper portion of the leaf 

 are quite thin ; later into normal linear subterete leaves, as in the 

 description. Mr. Farrer writes that in nature the plant is perennial, 

 with plenty of barren rosettes and a growth-form resembling that of 

 tSaxifrcif/a Coit/ledon ; in cultivation it tends to be monocarpic. 



The plant appears to be related to *S*. Chaneti Leveille in Fedde, 

 Rep&rtorium. v. 99 (19U8) (from Pe-Tchi-Li), but that species is so 

 inatlequately described that all that can be said with certainty is that 

 the two species are distinct. 



S3dum griseum, sp. nov. 



Species mexicana suffruticosa ad *S'. Hovrfjcei Hemsley et ^S*. gua- 

 (lahijarcDium S. Watson spectans ; ab priore statura minore, habitu 

 compactiore, ramis griseis (nee rubris), foliis glaucescentibus (nee 

 viridibus), lineari-fusiformibus (nee linearibus), subteretibus (nee 

 supr.i planis), cyma compacta (nee laxa), floribus viridescenti-albis 

 (nee roseo-albis), squamis brevibus flavescentibus (nee purpureis ) 

 distinguitur ; S. c/iiadalajaranum valde graeilior est, atque foliis 

 tenuioribus, inflorescentia laxa, maximeque caudice incrassato radi- 

 cibus tuberosis obsito facile separandum. 



Suft'rutex erectus multiramosus glaucescens 14-18 cm. altus, ramis 

 diffusis rubro-griseis in parte superiore foliosis. liadices fibrata?. Folia 

 alterna. coarctata, })atentia vel reflexa, sessilia, Hneai-i-f usiformia, obtusa, 

 subteretia, glauca, 1-25 cm. longa, 2 mm, lata, 1-5 mm. crassa. Flores 

 1 •25 cm. diametro pedicellis longiores. Inflorescentia parva. densa, 

 foliosa, convexa, 2-^ cm, lata, Sepala paulo inaqualia, oblongo- 

 attenuata, obtusiuscula, valde carnosa, viridia, 3-4 mm, longa, in 

 calcar vix producta. Petala jiatentia vel reflexa, lanceolata, acuta, 

 carina viridescenti subtus pra:dita, 6-7 mm. longa. Stamina i:»etalis 

 tequiloDga, filamentis albis, antheris rubris. Squamae minutfe, quadrat*, 

 flavescentes. Carpella erecta demum recurvata, viridia, staminibus 

 breviora, stylis longis gracilibus coronata, in fi-uctu 6 mm. longa. 



Keceived from New York Botanic Garden labelled " >S', BoiirgcEi, 

 No. 2," but it is quite distinct from that species, though clearly 

 allied to it. Habitat not certainly known, but it undoubtedly 

 comes from Mexico. Eeceived also from Haage & Schmidt of 

 Erfurt as S. fariuosum. With *S'. farinositm Lowe, a Madeiran 

 species, the present plant has no affinity ; but the misnomer probably 

 arose owing to confusion with S. farinomcm liose = /S', helium Rose, 

 a Mexican j^lant of appearance quite different from the species under 

 Nconsideration, 



Sedum airecamecanrm, sp. nov. 



v^'pecies mexicana habitu suffruticoso, foliis oblanceolatis sub- 

 acutis viridibus, inflorescentia suborbiculari, floribus pallid e luteis, 

 squamis supra pulchre aureis, facile dignoscenda; 



J^lantn siiffrutesccns, glabra, 20-30 cm. alta, erecta, rnmis diJfusis. 



