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Planta, ut videtur, pereunis, caudice lignoso subrepente 1-3 caules 
emittente, caulibus subpedalibiis erectis rigidulis teretibus glabcrriniis, 
foliis oppositis raembranaceis oblongis obtusisslniis sessilibus late con- 
nato-perfoliatis iritegerrimis glaberrimis crebre nigro- et pellucido-pujic- 
talis subtus glaucesceutibus 1^-2 poll, longis 6-7 lin. latis inconspicue 
coiivergcnti-iiervosis, nervis primariis utrinque 2-3, bracteis infimis 
(vel foliis ramealibus ad dicbotoraiarura bases) foliis" si milibus reliqnis 
niinutis subulatis, floribiis parvis (3-4 lin. diametro) in cymas laxius- 
culas plurifloras ramos oppositos terminantes ad caulis apicem cymam 
corymbiformem efformantes dispositis, sepalis oblongis obtusis alteniis 
majoribua iiigro-punctatis tenuiter neiTulosis margine integerrimis, 
petalis ellipticis flavis nervosis sparse nigro-punctatis sepalis subieqiii- 
longis, aiitlieris siibrotimdis glandula nigra apiculatis, capsula ovoidca 
vesiculis resinifcris ovalibus croceis tecta stvlis 3 brevissiuus coronata, 
seminibus numerosis pallidis botuliformibus longitudinaliter sulcatis 
transverse rugulosis. — On muddy river-banks, subject to overflows, 
near Lukpo, 100 miles west of Canton, rare. (T. Sampson, June, 
1865.) [Specimens of this and Nos. 3 and 4 have been deposited at 
the Brit. Museum. — Ed.] 
I believe I am correct in the section in which I have placed this 
remarkable and most distinct species, though it differs from its allies 
in its perfectly smooth-edged sepals ; the capsxde, though smaller, is, 
with the curious ovoid vesicles, quite like that of //. RocJielii, Griseb. 
and Schenk, Except in the connate leaves, it has no resemblance to 
H. caprifollum^ Boiss., or //. Naudinianum^ Coss. and Dll., which be- 
long to the Adenosepalnru group. The leaves are quite as connate as 
the upper ones of Lmicera CaprifbUiim, L., which, indeed, they are not 
unlike in shape. No species known to me from Europe, Western Asia, 
or India, approaches very near to our plant ; and, with the exception, 
I believe, of //. eredum^ Thbg., and //. altennaUm, Choisy, which 
belong to Eahyperlcam, Holosepalim, those from Eastern Asia are of 
quite different types, being referable to the sections Eremanllie, Nori/sca^ 
jRoscyna, and BratliyB, 
3. Sedum dri/marioides, n. sp.— Hei'bacenm, glanduloso-pilosulum, 
radicibus fibrosis, rhizomate nuUo, caulibus diffusis dcbilibus, foliis dis- 
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tantibus planis carnosis integerrimis lamina ovali obtusa in petiolum 
ea paulo breviorem spathulato-cuneata iucluso petiolo subbipoUicaribus 
oppositis vel rarius ternis quaterni^^ve, rynus (pseudoracemis) rnmos 
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