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pale f^Tccn until tlicv npfn. Flowers \ inch across, equalling the pedicels. Sepals 

 pale green, lanceolate, lleshy, acute, J the petals, tube very short. Petals { inch 

 long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, wide-spreading, greenish white. Stamens spread- 

 ing, equalling the petals, filaments white, anthers reddish, the epipetalous ones 

 inserted J way up the petal. Scales linear, twice as long as broad, retuse, greenish 

 Carpels erect, pink, equalling the petals, giving a pinkish colour to the flower ; 

 styles short. 



Flowers September. Hardy- 

 Habit.'VT. — Japan, Manchuria, China. 



f. foliis medio-variegatis Kegel, " Gartenflora," tab. 709, fig. 6. 



A form with a white blotch in the centre of the leaf, occasionally 

 seen in gardens. Like many variegated plants it is best grown in 

 shade. Inclines to revert to type, and stems with green leaves need 

 to be pulled off. 



f. foliis margine-variegatis. 



Leaves with a border of greenish-white. I received this from 

 Ottawa and from the Tully Nursery in Co. Kildare, and there is a 

 specimen of it in the Kew Herbarium from " Hort. Justus Corderry, 

 Oct. 14, 1904 " ; I find no published reference to it. It is a form of 

 no great merit. 



27. Sedum pseudospectabile Praeger (figs. 36^, 42). 



S. pseudospeciabile IPrsiegeT in Journ. of BoL, 54, 40, 1917. 



Closely allied to the well-known S. spectabile Boreau, from which 

 it differs in its stems half as tall again, leaves green (not glaucous), 

 rounded at the base (not cuneate), and about as long as the internodes 

 (not twice as long) , smaller inflorescence, and flowers with all the parts 

 shorter by about one-third ; it flowers nearly a month earlier. 



Description. — An erect glabrous herbaceous perennial. Roots tuberous, 

 carrot-like. Stems annual, few, erect, unbranched, smooth, round, green dotted 

 red, 1-2 foot high. Leaves ternate or opposite (occasionally in fours), fleshy, 

 sessile, clasping, entire or obscurely toothed, green with paler veins, lower broadly 

 obovate, upper broadly ovate, li to 2 inches long by i to ij broad, equalling 

 the internodes, niostly concave, often margined and dotted with red. 7m- 

 florescence a terminal coifipact flat panicled cyme, about 2 inches long and broad, 

 sparingly leafy. Buds oval, bluntly pointed. Flowers -^ inch long, J inch across, 

 on pedicels shorter than the flowers. Calyx cup-shaped, rather glaucous green, 

 segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, thrice the tube, tipped red. Petals twice the 

 sepals, f\ inch long, pink, ovate-lanceolate, acute, spreading but not patently. 

 Stamens ij times the petals, nearly erect, the epipetalous ones inserted near the 

 base of the petals, filaments pink, anthers purple. Scales yellowish, curved 

 upwards, quadrate-cuneate, ij times as long as broad. Carpels erect, slender, 

 pink, equalling the petals, styles slightly divergent. 



Flowers August-September. Hardy. 



Habitat. — Chinwangtao, on the coast east of Pekin (Prof. I. 

 Bayley Balfour, 1910). 



Received first from Edinburgh as above ; when the plant flowered 

 it proved to be identical with another received meanwhile from the 

 University Botanic Garden at Sapporo under the name S. spectabile. 



