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Carpels erect, yellow, equalling the stamens, narrowed rather abruptly into the 

 long slender styles, wide-spreading in fruit, when they are green or red. 



Flowers July-August. Hardy. 



Habitat. — J apan. 



This species is very poorly represented in herbaria. The only infor- 

 mation I have been able to glean as to its habitat is derived from a speci- 

 men (the only representative of the species in the British Museum) from 

 Hance's Herbarium, collected as kamischaticum at Hakodate, Japan, 

 by Maximowicz in 1861 ; so that the plant belongs to N.E. Asia, as 

 would be expected from its affinities. To judge from its wide dis- 

 tribution in gardens it is evidently long in cultivation. I have seen it 

 in, or received it from, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, 

 Sweden, Russia, Japan, and Canada, under the names of Aizoon, Selski- 

 anum, hyhridum, kamischaticum, spurium, serotinum, etc. Plants from 

 all these countries — from some twenty different sources in all — have 

 been grown in my garden. They show that the plant is remarkably 

 constant in character, though belonging to a group, several species of 

 which display much variation. The only divergence from the type 

 that I have observed is in a plant at Glasnevin, in which the flower- 

 branches are longer, making the inflorescence larger and laxer — 3 to 

 4 inches across. 



The only specimen in the Kew Herbarium is labelled " Sedum — , 

 Kew Gardens, Sept. 18, 1901. Legit N. E. Brown," which shows that 

 that botanist, who paid much attention to the Kew Sedums, had 

 noticed its peculiar characters. 



Dedicated to the memory of Canon H. N. Ellacombe, who first 

 urged me to undertake a revision of the cultivated Sedums. 



40. Sedum kamtschaticum Fisch. and Meyer (figs. 54c, 62). 



S. kamtschaticum Fischer and Meyer, " Index Seminum Hort. 

 Petropol.," 7, 54, 1841. Maximowicz in Bulletin Acad. Petersbourg, 

 29, 145, 1883. Masters in Card. Chron., 1878, ii. 463. 



Synonyms. — S. Brownii (or Braunii) and S. Lehmanni (all nomina nuda) of 

 some gardens. 



Illustration. — Wooster. "Alpine Plants," 2, pi. 22, 1874. 



A handsome plant, with dark-green foliage and large orange 

 flowers ; often confused with some of its allies of the Aizoon section, 

 but easily distinguished. From S. hyhridum, which it most resembles 

 in general appearance, it is separated by the absence of barren stems 

 and of creeping habit, laxer inflorescence, larger flowers, sepals broaden- 

 ing below (not linear), and stellate (not semi-erect) fruit. 5. Midden- 

 dorffianum differs in its unbranched " stems, narrower leaves, denser 

 inflorescence, and smaller flowers ; S. Ellacomhianum in its light-green 

 colour, broader leaves, unbranched stems, denser inflorescence, and 

 smaller flowers ; 5. floriferum in its linear sepals, smaller flowers, etc. 



Description. — A glabrous perennial without barren shoots. Rootstock 

 thick and woody, much branched upward, branches twiggy. Stems arising in 



