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the largest one attaining about 4 cm. in length ; the superior ones smaller, 

 loosely disposed, spathulate, narrowed below, with a notch at the apex. Cyme 

 1^-4 cm. a.cross ; branches 1-3, divaricate, short, simple or sometimes dichoto- 

 mous, laxly 1-5-fioriferous ; bracts leaf -like, green, linear-spa thnlate, obtuso- 

 emarginate. Flower about 9-10 mm. in diameter, very shortly pedicellate 

 but sessile in the superior ones. Sepals 5, unequal in size, oblong-linear, 

 but the largest one leaf-like and linear spathulate, obtuse. Petals 5, 

 spreading, slightly connate at the base, oblong-lanceolate, acute, yellow. 

 Stamens 10, shorter than the petals, oppositipetalous ones inserted to the 

 inframedia of petals, and oppositisepalous ones adherent to basal sides of 

 petals; filament fihform ; anther broadly ovate. Hypogynous scales 5, 

 minute, flat, rectangular-spathulate with a round-truncate apex. Ovaries 

 5, erect, connate at the base, lanceolate, sharply attenuated into a short and 

 more or less recurved styles ; stigma punctiform ; ovules many, narrowly 

 oblong, ascending. Follicles patulous, connate at the base, compressed 

 laterally, tapering upwards. Fl. April. 



Nom. Jap. YahayAi-mannengusa. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Karatani in Tokano-mura {T. Malcino\ Autumn 

 1884, April 1885). 



A rare species coming near Seduin subtile Miq.; it is distinguished by its 

 notched leaves. It grows in stony place at the foot of maintains. 



Sedum (Telephium) vMde Makino Rev. of some Jap. Sp. of Sedum 

 and Cotyledon, in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XL 1897, p. 430. 



Perennial, glabrous. Stem slender, erect, or ascending, attaining 

 about 40 cm. or more in height, terete, internodes longer or shorter than 

 the leaves and about 3^-6| cm. long. Leaves mostly opposite, or sometimes 

 3-verticillate, spreading, green, sometimes dispersedly nigro-punctate, elliptical, 

 2i- nearly 5 cm. long, 1^-3 cm. wide, obtuse at the both ends, more or less 

 irregularly repand-crenate, fleshy; lateral veins erect- patent, about 5-7 

 on each side ; veinlets copiously anastomosing ; petiole 5-10 mm. long. 

 Oorymb terminal, 3^-4 cm. across, flatly rounded at the top ; peduncles erect- 

 patent, bracteate ; pedicles usually slightly shorter than the flower. Flowers 

 dense, about 5 ram. in diameter, yellowish-green. Sepals 5, minute, ovato- 

 lanceolate, acutish, 1-nerved, herbaceous, green, about IJ mm. long. Petals 

 5, erect-patent, connate at the very base, oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire, 

 thin, 1-nerved, about 5i mm. long. Stamens 10, slightly shorter than the 

 petals, oppositipetalous ones inserted to the inframedia of petals ; filament 



