ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 22$ 



stems with ascending branches, spathulate leaves in whorls of four, 

 and few-flowered cymes of yellow flowers distinguish it. The foUow- 

 ing account is condensed from the original description and figure. 



Description.— A small, glabrous, caespitose perennial. Roots &hTOus. 

 Stems creeping, with erect or ascending simple branches 2 to 5 inches high 

 round light green, purplish and rooting at base. Leaves 4- (occasionally 5-) 

 verticillate or the upper ones alternate, shorter than the intemodes. those of the 



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Fig. 128. — S. Zentaro-Tashiroi Makino. 



barren shoots and lower part of flowering shoots spathulate-obovate, obtuse or 



subretuse at apex, attenuated into a petiole, largest above, upper leaves of 



flowering shoots spathulate-linear, obtuse or acute, narrower below, i inch long. 



Inflorescence a 2- or 3-branched ifew-flowered cyme, branches 2- to 3-flowered, 



^H bracts linear, green. Flowers short-stalked, ^ inch diameter, yellow. Sepals un- 



i^B equal, linear to linear- lanceolate, blunt. Petals wide-spreading, ovate-lanceolate, 



^^H[ shortly acuminate. Stamens scarcely shorter than the petals, filaments yellow, 



^^K anthers reddish. Scales minute, spathulate-oblong, truncate-rounded at apex. 



^^B Carpels erect, lanceolate, connate below, greenish- yellow ; styles slender, | the 



^^K ovaries. Fruit spreading. 



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Flowers May. ? Hardy. 



Habitat. — Japan. Named after the finder, who obtained it 

 the province of Tsushima in 1909. 



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