ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS POtJNi) tN CULTIVATION. 251 , 



Not hardy. 



Habitat.— Cerro San Filipe, Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Material sent from Washington (under the n^r^eS d^vers^fohum 

 Rose), has grown freely but has never flowered, and the description 

 of the flower given above is quoted from Rose [loc. at). 



Derives its name from its habitat, Oaxaca. 



120. Sedum nudum Alton (fig. 147)- 

 S. nudum Alton. " Hort. Kew." ed. i. 2, 112. 1789. Lowe. " Flor. 

 Madeira," 1, 324- 



Illustration.— De CandoUe, " Plantes Grasses." tab. 155. 



The only one of several interesting endemic Madeiran species 

 which is in cultivation. The present plant has green, egg-shaped leaves 

 (Dale green in the plants I have seen), resembling those of short-leaved 

 forms of S. album, and few-flowered cymes of small greenish-yellow 

 flowers In nature it forms a low. tangled subshrub, but the culti- 

 vated plant has weak, sinuous stems which sprawl on the ground 

 It is closely aUied to S. lancerottense R. P. Murray, which is confined 

 to Teneriffe ; the differences between the two are discussed under 

 the latter species. 



Description —A small, glabrous evergreen. Stems sinuous, in nature woody 



""""ad ZtSici T^oiefLt I fmall l„-flowered cyme generally of .or 3 

 imole tonchra ^th i central flower, flowers about 4 to 10 in all, bracte 



SS r = ofa%r:r lotgi'ts^ts^^^^^^^^ 



anthers browS^h yellow.^ Sca/« orange, cuneate, notched, i the carpels. Carpels 

 drvergent e^n in bud, wide-spreading later, greenish yellow, styles slender . 

 steSe in frSJ. when they are surrounded by the very swollen, unequal sepals. 



FlowersMay(Kew, gentle heat); June (cold frame). Not hardy. 



Habitat.— Madeira. 



De Candolle states that it flowers in summer at Kew, in winter 

 at the Jardin des Plantes. It is a shy bloomer in cultivation, and 

 the flowers which I was fortunate enough to get at Kew were the first 

 that had been noticed on the plant, which has been long in culti- 

 vation there. De Candolle states that Masson, who discovered 

 it sent it to England in 1777. Aiton ("Hortus Kewensis") states 

 that it was received at Kew in that year. The plant, as cultivated 

 there now is quite possibly derived from the original stock. Lowe 

 says the leaves are generally bright full green, occasionally pale or 

 glaucous. The Kew plant is pale green, and produced as many as 

 sixteen flowers on the inflorescence, the three branches of which were 

 forked. 



