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125. Sedum multicaule Wallich (fig. 152). 



S. «>uUicaule WaUich. "Catalogue •' No. 7«2 H°f « " '^°^^ 

 in Tourn. Linn. Soc. Bot. 2, 102. Clarke in Hooker, I'lor. 

 Brit. India," 2. 422. Hamet in Bulletin Soc. Bot. France, 56, 47- 



A small, unattractive species, with leaves «=^* *°f °* *nt 

 rellexum group, and smaU dull yellow flowers. A common plant 

 In the nfmalayan region &c., not worth cultivation. Among the 

 Sedums in cultivation it comes nearest to S '««•?;'*«»■ '-""e 



^*elSw iw;d"petlirand S. Cel has not the stellate fruit 

 characteristic of multicaule. 



Dbsck:pxxon.-A small, glabrous perenmal (in cultivt-.J^g^ -^^^^^^ 

 Stems usually branched below branches ^^^^^^^^ '^^^^,,, 



round, leafy. Leavjs Meraa-te s^sil^ shor^y^ i^ch long by tV inch 



linear, very fleshy, flat on face rounded on back^^^^^^ |^^^^^^ wide-spreading 

 broad. Inflorescence f^fy. about 2 inch^ ac^^^^^ ^^^^^^, 



scorpioid branches, with a flower ^^JJ^.!^*;®''"^- , .^^^ very unequal, linear, 

 'sessile, I inch across 5.^a/sre^^^^^^^^ 



^r^-h^^:^^^ ^.SrSeTSr^^de-spLding . fruit stellate, 

 often crimson. 



Flowers July-August. Hardy. 



Habitat.— Himalayas, China, Japan. . 



Usuallv much branched below. Young plants were received from 

 Edinburgh Town from Himalayan seed), and seed received from 

 dS ng Botanic Garden. There is an excellent unpubhshed 

 Sd Igur: of the plant in the Kew collection of drawings, made 

 by Mrs. George GovAN, area 1823-32. 



Described by Hamet, who has made a special study of the 

 plaS 1) as perennial, but during a period of several years the 

 Snt in my garden, even when protected in winter, behaved as an 

 ^linua!. maling no barren shoots, dying in autumn, and sowing itself . 



'"''xiie name »„te«;^many-stemmed-refers to its branching 

 habit. 



126. Sedum trulllpetalum H. f. and T. 



S. trullipetalum Hooker fil. and Thorns., If ^^^^^f ^^.f ?f g ^21' 

 2, 102. 1858. C. B. Clarke in Hooker. Flor. Brit. India. 2, 421. 

 Hamet in Bulletin Soc. Bot. France. 56, 47- 



A small moss-like plant related to S. muUicaule "^-^^^^'^^^^ 

 Mampt fboth of which are described and figured in the present 

 pap") aid others If the Japonica group. It differs from mumcauU 

 fn Us leaves half as large with a three-lobed (not entire) spur petals 

 clawed oUus^^^^^^ nearly ^ inch long (instead of not clawed, 



