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ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 261 



long, clawea . ciaw ""^'^^' '* , , , ,, r,f.f^u the eoioetalous ones inserted 

 Carpels a little shorter than the stamens, connate m the lower half, styles slenaer. 



Flowers September. Hardy. 



Habitat.— Himalayan region ; Yunnan. 



A little, mossy, pale-flowered Sedum of no horticultural interest. 

 My plants, which came from the Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeelmg 

 died off badly in autumn just before flowering, and proved difficult 

 to keep. The description of the floral parts given above is drawn 

 largely from Hamet's excellent account. 



Hooker and Thomson call the species annual, and Hamet 

 perennial. My plants persisted for three seasons, but, though barren 

 stems were present, ahnost the whole perished in early autumn, only 

 a few small buds— whether terminal or axiUary I cannot say- 

 remaining till spring, when they rooted and grew. 



127. Sedum Celiac Hamet (fig. 153) • 

 S. Celiac Hamet in Bullelin de Geographic Botanique, 23, 67, 1913. 



A minute, green, spiny-leaved species aUied to the well-known 

 Himalayan (and Chinese) S. muliicaule^^a.]l., and forming one of a quite 

 large group of small Hnear-leaved species of the Japonica section 

 now known to occur in China. None of its alhes except mulhcaule 

 and trulUpelalum are in cultivation. The first differs from it in 

 its stellate fruit, much larger leaves, &c., the second m its dense 

 inflorescence, whitish-yellow clawed petals, &c. 



Description.— Perennial, minute, glabrous, bright green creeping, about 

 2 inches Wgh S^^m creeping, slender, smooth, round, ^^^dish. barren and 

 flowering ones similar, each Vith many short ascending branches, their lower part 

 To^ely dothed with old leaves. Leaves alternate, crowded sf^^l«- /^"f [^^^ 

 <;Hphtlv taoering entire, acuminate, spine-pointed, thick (fig. 153. 0). t ij\cn 

 long by S^S^Se by ^V inch thick, at base colourless w^th a median purple 

 strile or blotch, spur shSrt. usually rounded, sometimes 3 -lobed (fig. I53. «. «). 

 oSonal^Tdeepl/s-lobed. Cymell.., of 2 or 3 sh ort w,d pr d g b^^^^^^^ 

 rnund a central flower, about i inch across, flat, leafy, with bracts lorming d 

 ^ough involucre round the base of the calyx of each fiower.Bu.is ovate acute. 

 ^x,hiH<5h with ereen ribs in the upper part, the corolla exceeded by the long, green, 

 Trecfsepl^s ^SoLrTsLsile. r^SierVeenish yellow, not opening widely about 

 linch Loss. Sepals lanceolate, acute, leaf-hke. scarcdy ^P"^^^/,^"^^-^; 

 Miphtlv exceeding the petals (or slightly shorter than them— R. Hamet). retais 

 y flow^vatelanyolatl acutV semlerLt. .\ inch long, with a dorsal rib^nding 

 fn a short apiculus behind and slightly exceedmg the tip (^f; /-f 'J^-j^^ i.^" 

 a little shorter than the petals, filaments tapermg, yellow, anthers red^dishpur^^^^^ 

 the epipetalous ones inserted about i from the base.Sca/.s yellow the lo^^^^^ 

 half broadly linear, twice as long as broad the upper ^f ,5°"" Jf b^^^^Stly 

 broader than long. Carpels slender, erect, free save at the very base, sngnuy 

 si orter than the ftamens^ pale green, tapering into ^^^^d^r er^^^^th^e fnner f ^^^ 

 attached to a small, semiglobular placenta placed near the base ^^^^^'^^^'^^l 

 of the carpel (fig. 153. d). Carpels erect in fruit, slightly exceeded oy ine 

 erect sepals. 



