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125. Sedum multicaule Wallich (fig. 152). 



S. multicaule Wallich, "Catalogue " No. 7232. Hooker fil. and Thorns, 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. 2, 102. Clarke in Hooker, "Flor. 

 Brit. India," 2, 422. Hamet in Bulletin Soc. Bot. France, 56, 47. 



A small, unattractive species, with leaves resembUng those of the 

 reflexum group, and small dull yellow flowers. A common plant 

 in the Himalayan region &c., not worth cultivation. Among the 

 Sedums in cultivation it comes nearest to S. trullipetalum H. f. and T. 

 and 5. Celiac Hamet, but these have leaves only half as large 

 (J inch long, not \ inch). 5. trullipetalum has, moreover, whitish- 

 yellow clawed petals, and 5. Celiac has not the stellate fruit 

 characteristic of multicaule. 



Description. — A small, glabrous perennial (in cultivation, often annual). 

 Stems usually branched below, branches ascending, 3 to 4 inches high, smooth, 

 round, leafy. Leaves alternate, sessile, shortly and bluntly spurred, apiculate, 

 linear, very fleshy, flat on face, rounded on back, about | inch long by yV inch 

 broad. Inflorescence leafy, about 2 inches across, of several wide-spreading 

 scorpioid branches, with a flower in the centre. Buds ovate, acute. Flowers 

 sessile, | inch across. Sepals resembling the leaves, very unequal, linear, 

 apiculate, fleshy, green, the shortest equalling the petals, separate nearly to the 

 base. Petals yellow, ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, inconspicuous. Stamens 

 slightly shorter than the petals, filaments green, anthers yellow. Scales whitish, 

 emarginate. Carpels green, at first erect, later wide-spreading ; fruit stellate, 

 often crimson. 



Flowers July-August. Hardy. 



Habitat. — Himalayas, China, Japan. 



Usually much branched below. Young plants were received from 

 Edinburgh (grown from Himalayan seed), and seed received from 

 Darjeehng Botanic Garden. There is an excellent unpubUshed 

 coloured figure of the plant in the Kew collection of drawings, made 

 by Mrs. George Govan, circa 1823-32. 



Described by Hamet, who has made a special study of the 

 plant [loc. cit.), as perennial, but during a period of several years the 

 plant in my garden, even when protected in winter, behaved as an 

 annual, making no barren shoots, dying in autumn, and sowing itself 

 freely 



The name multicaule — many-stemmed — refers to its branching 

 habit. 



126. Sedum trullipetalum H. f. and T. 



S. trullipetalum Hooker fil. and Thoms., in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., 

 2, 102, 1858. C. B. Clarke in Hooker, " Flor. Brit. India," 2, 421. 

 Hamet in Bulletin Soc. Bot. France, 56, 47. 



A small moss-like plant related to S. multicaule Wallich, S. Celiac 

 Hamet (both of which are described and figured in the present 

 paper) and others of the Japonica group. It differs from multicaule 

 in its leaves half as large with a three-lobed (not entire) spur, petals 

 clawed, obtuse, mucronate, nearly -^ inch long (instead of not clawed, 



