ADDISONIA 33 
(Plate 57) 
SEDUM BOURGAEI 
Bourgeau’s Sedum 
Native of Mexico 
Family CRASSULACEAE OrPINE Family 
Sedum Bourgaet Hemsl. Diag. Pl. Nov. 1: 11. 1878. 
A shrubby much-branched plant two to ten inches high, the 
branches slender, reddish, and very leafy. The alternate leaves 
are narrow, terete, about a quarter of an inch long, and usually 
at right angles to the branches. The few subsessile flowers are 
arranged on one side of the terminal branches. The calyx-lobes 
are five, green, somewhat unequal, an eighth of an inch long or 
less. ‘The petals are five, spreading, lanceolate, red to pale pink, 
obtuse to acute. The stamens are ten, and the carpels five, the 
latter at first erect. 
This species is common in the valley of Mexico, and is sometimes 
cultivated by the Mexicans. It is rather inconspicuous, but has 
pretty flowers; it does not much resemble the ordinary species of 
Sedum usually seen in cultivation. 
The illustration was made from a plant obtained by J. N. Rose 
in central Mexico in 1903. It has flowered repeatedly in the 
conservatories of the New York Botanical Garden. 
J. N. Rose. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1.—Flowering stem. Fig. 2.—Flower, X 2. 
