Some Asiatic Sedums in the Edinburgh Herbar- 
ium; with supplementary notes from Kew and 
the British Museum. 
BY 
R. LLOYD PRAEGER, B.A. 
With Plates cL.xx-CLxxIx and One Figure in the Text. 
THE majority of the sheets of the large collection of Asiatic 
Sedums preserved at Edinburgh have been examined by M. 
Hamet, and his determinations have been published in part.* 
The present notes deal with the remainder of the Asiatic sheets, 
including G. Forrest’s more recent collections in Yunnan made 
after 1913, and some interesting Chinese and Burmese plants 
obtained by F. Kingdon Ward and Reginald Farrer. It has been 
found necessary to review a few of M. Hamet’s determinations, 
in most cases because I regard as distinct a few plants which 
he had placed, in most cases tentatively, under species already 
described. A similar revision has been made in the case of a 
few of the plants of Forrest’s first expedition, as published by 
Diels. + 
An examination of the Sedums in the Léveillé Herbarium 
(now at Edinburgh) and of Hamet’s comments on these plants 
reveals the identity of some of Léveillé’s very inadequately de- 
scribed species, and furnishes other useful material. One of the 
Léveillian species (S. C haneti), which could not be identified 
from his description, proves to be identical with a plant subse- 
quently described by myself as S. pyramidale. My name is in 
consequence withdrawn, but my description will be found useful. 
The issue was confused in this case by the fact that (on Hamet’s 
determination, as the label on the specimen shows) Léveillé had 
withdrawn this species, identifying it with S. spinosum, Thun- 
berg, a quite difierent plant. Two other names of mine, S. 
Mairei and S. triphyllum, are also withdrawn, specimens in the 
Léveillé collection named by Hamet showing that they are 
identical with his S. Someni and S. Chauveaudi respectively. 
“ * Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin., v, 115; vili, 140. 
+ Ibid. vii. 
(N . 
R. Edin., No. LXII, August 1921.] F 
{rorp) Wt. 14883/161 g/at. 375 J.-P. G7 Se.B 
