FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 75 



the place of stipules. The flowers are white, deliciously sweet 

 scented, and produced in small irregular corymbs on the ends of 

 peduncles considerably larger than the leaves. Their calyx 

 consists of 5 narrow smooth convex sepals, rolled backwards, 

 and much shorter than the tube of the corolla, with a very 

 shallow toothed glandular ring surrounding the base of the latter. 

 The corolla is about three quarters of an inch long, pure white, 

 salver-shaped, contracted in the middle of the tube, with a par- 

 tially spreading border, whose 5 divisions are wedge-shaped, 

 truncate, and twisted obliquely. The anthers are 5, arrow- 

 headed, placed just within the orifice of the tube, and separated 

 by 5 slightly elevated hairy lines. The ovary consists of 2 

 separate carpels, and is surrounded by 5 oblong green 

 emarginate hypogynous scales, which sometimes are 

 slightly united at the edge. 



The structure of this plant is not precisely that of the 

 genus Rhynchospermum as given by M. Alph. De 

 Candolle, for the scales beneath its ovary are not ex- 

 actly united into a cup. But they are partially so j and 

 as there is no other difference as far as can be ascer- 

 tained from the plant in a state of flowering only, it 

 may be referred to the genus. In habit it is more 

 like an Aganosma, but its corolla has not the tapering 

 lobes of that genus, nor do the nectary or stigma cor- 

 respond with it. 



Aug. 5, 1845. 



16. Sedum Kamtchaticum, Fischer and Meyer, hid. Semi- 

 num in Horto Petropolitano, Walpers' Repertorium, 

 ii. 262. 



Received from Dr. Fischer, in June, 1 844, and said to have 

 been collected by Dr. Schrenk on the Chinese limits of 

 the South of Soongaria. 



This is a handsome herbaceous plant, with bright yellow 

 flowers like those of Sedum Aizoon, which it much resembles in 

 habit. The leaves are obovate and toothed at the upper half only, 

 but they narrow in a wedge-shaped manner to the base. They 

 are red edged, and the stem has also a strong stain of that 

 colour ; most of them are alternate, a very few only near the 

 summit being opposite to each other. 



It is a hardy perennial, requiring a light soil and dry situation. 

 It is easily increased by cuttings any time during the summer or 

 autumn, and flowers from June to August. 



A. Hypogynous Scales and Pistil of Rhynchospermum jasminoides. 



