ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 295 



Flowers early June. Hardy. 



Habitat.— Southern Europe, from S.E. France to Crete. 

 Rare in cultivation. Has long maintained itself in the gardens of 

 the late Canon Ellacombe, and of Mr. E. A. Bowles. Sent to Wisley 



by Mr. Correvon. . . . u a 



A very woody little plant, and the old stems beanng the star-shaped 



fruits may often be seen standing up among the flowermg plants of 



the following season. The leaves are stated to be sometmies opposite 



or verticillate. i-i r -a. 



The specific name has reference to the star-like fruit. 



143. Sedum formosanum N. E. Brown (fig. 175)- 

 S. formosanum N. E. Brown in Card. Chron. 34, 134. 1885. 



A floriferous annual allied to the Japonica series, which in its 

 spathulate leaves and yeUow flowers recalls S. Alfredt Hance. It 

 may be distinguished from its aUies by its erect carpels, and very 

 large, loose inflorescence. 



Description —A glabrous annual, about 6 to 9 inches high. Stem procum- 

 ben?at bas" or' erect^peatedly forked di- or trichotomously. round smooth 



SJculent redLh ; branches divergent, ultimate ^^f^<^''^'^,fZll^''^^^^^S, 

 tetragonal with a groove down two opposite faces. Leaves alternate (occasionally 

 ?DOo£ bright Ireen. paler belowf softly succulent, recurved, pimply on face 

 ^d Sgls when foung. flat, spathulate. entire, very blunt, tapered _below but 

 sTarcelf stSed, Ldrib depressed on face, i inch long by nearly i inch wide. 

 Sminer ISve merging into similar bracts. Inflorescence very arge. loose. 

 Sff of iSny dShotomois or trichotomous branches with flowers m the forks, 

 id 4 ^eaT o? br^ct at each fork and below each flower. Buds ovate, blunt or 

 ^iculate Flowers i inch across, sessUe or nearly so. bright yellow. Sepals 

 sSeaSS green unequal, spathulate. shortly-stalked, leaf-like, slightly spurred. 

 Kfoblong iTnceolate mucronate. yellow. ^\ inch long, patent, ij times the 

 Sn^st sepal S the shorter one^. Stamens sUghtly shorter than the petals, 

 sprfading^ filaments yellow, anthers reddish. Scales pale yellow, cuneate. 

 Jounded^at the e^pex.^ Carpels greenish yellow, erect, equalling the stamens, 

 styles short, slightly recurved ; carpels erect in fruit. 



Flowers April-May-June, or September-October (sown in May). 



Not hardy. 



Habitat.— E. China, Formosa, Korean Archipelago. 



OriginaUy described from specimens raised at Kew from Formosa 

 seed in 1885. Grown at Kew, Edinburgh. Glasnevin, and Wisley in 

 1916 from seed kindly sent me by Mr. W. J. Tutcher, Superintendent 

 of the Forestry Department, Hong-Kong. 



N. E. Brown describes it as " exceedingly pretty," but, though 

 very floriferous, the blossoms are rather small and the plant stragghng, 

 and, though pleasing, it does not deserve such high praise. 



144. Sedum Someni Hamet (figs. 176, 177). 



S. Someni Hamet in Journ. oj BoL, 54, App. I., p. 18, 1916. 

 Synonym.— S. Mairei Praeger in Journ. of Bot., 57. 53. I9i9- 

 Allied to the Japonica series, but annual or biennial, somewhat 



resembUng, in its rosettes of leaves, the spathuli folium group from 



