422 LIII. CKASSULACE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Sedum. 



obovoid finely striate longitudinally. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 185 ; H. f. fy T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 102 : JBoiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 790. S. Urvillei, DC. Prodr. 

 iii. 408. 



PUNJAB PLAIN; Peshawur, Vicary; Hurroo and Hassababad, Aitchison. Dis- 

 TRIB. Afghanistan and thence to Greece. 



Glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent. Leaves 1 in., oblong to linear. Flowers 

 5-merous subsessile, white (or rose ex Boissier). Petals acute, thrice as long as the 

 triangular acute sepals. <7y?rc-branches minutely glandular, divaricate-recurved in 

 fruit. A species that has been confounded with S. multicaule ; it differs in its habitat 

 and is absolutely separate by the seed. 



22. S. multicaule, Wall. Cat. 7232 ; glabrous, stem 3-8 in. high usually 

 much divided from the base, carpels not tuberculate, seeds obovoid covered with 

 minute tubercles. H. f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 102. S. japonicum, 

 Sieb. Herb, in Miq. Ann. Mus. Sot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 156. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4000-7000 ft., from KASHMIR to BHOTAN ; frequent. 

 DISTRIB. China and Japan. 



Leaves | 1 in. long, linear-oblong, acute. Flowers subsessile, petals yellow. Cyme 

 branches divaricate in fruit, usually elongate, subscorpioid. 



23. S. perpusillum, IT. f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 103 ; glabrous, 

 stems 1-2 in. branching crowded, follicles short oblong turgid small, seeds large 

 (therefore few in each carpel) obovoid hispid with elongate papillae. 



SIKKIM, alt. 12,000 ft., J. D.H. 



Leaves in. long, sessile, oblong or linear. Cyme small, leafy. Flowers pedicellate, 

 erect. Sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals white, oblong, a little longer than the sepals. 

 Follicles connected their length. The specimen referred here by H. f. & T. collected 

 in the "Western Himalaya has different seeds; it is in too imperfect a state for 

 identification. 



7. SEIKFERVXVUBI, Linn. 



Fleshy herbs, often sending up annual flower-stems from a rosette of leaves 

 crowning the perennial rootstock. Leaves alternate. Cymes paniculate. Flowers 

 in the Indian species 8-merous, more rarely 6-8-merous. Calyx divided nearly 

 to the base. Petals free, or scarcely cohering at the base, oblong-lanceolate. 

 Stamens double the number of the petals, free. Hypogynous scales small, bifid, 

 united in pairs. Carpels equal in number with the petals, free or adnate to the 

 calyx, narrowed upwards into filiform styles ; ovules very numerous. Follicles 

 many-seeded. DISTKIB. Species 40, extending from the Canary Islands across 

 South Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and the Western Himalaya. 



1. S. acuminatum, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Sot. t. 74; leaves mucronate 

 glabrous, pedicels and sepals glabrous or slightly ciliate, sepals oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate scarcely pubescent, H. f. fy T. in. Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 92. S. 

 himalayense, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. t. 43. Sedum Moorcroftianum, 

 Wall. Cat, 7228. 



HIMALAYA, from KUNAWUR to KASHMIR, alt. 10,000-15,000 ft.; WEST 

 TIBET, StracTiey $ Winterbottom, &c. 



Stems 4-8 in. high. Kosulate leaves 1-2J in. long, obovate-lanceolate or nearly 

 linear ; cauline ^ f in., sessile, oblong, acuminate, but little imbricate. Cyme some- 

 what lax. Petals glabrous, purple-rose, twice or thrice the sepals. Seeds narrow 

 obovoid, striate longitudinally. 



