78 PRAEGER—SoOME ASIATIC SEDUMS. 
markable among Rhodiolas, the female plant is figured here, and 
the female flower described. 
Flos Q@ :—Sepala libera, linearia, obtusa, 4 mm. longa, .8 mm. 
lata. Petala libera, lineari-oblanceolata, obtusa, 4.5 mm. longa, 
1.2mm. lata. Stamina nulla. Squamae nectariferae quadratae, 
emarginatae, .75 mm. longae et latae. C st de 6.5 mm. longa, 
in stylos capitellatos divergentes angusta 
S. Cretini is closely related to S. cra eile, Wall., and two of 
the more obvious characters by which it is distin guished—its 
soboles and its dioecious flowers, are not unknown in abnormai 
forms of that species. But its candex appears never to become 
thick and aerial, each crown being short-lived; its flower-stems 
are much shorter, its leaves shorter and broader, and only the 
upper ones slightly toothed. Of flower characters it is not pos- 
sible to speak with certainty, as the floral parts in both species 
are variable in shape and relative length, and abundant material 
would be necessary for adequate comparison. 
There are two sheets of this species in Kew Herbarium. One, 
displaying the typical plant (9) is of J. D. Hooker’s collecting, 
from Lachen, Sikkim, 12,000-14,000 ft., June 20 and July 14 
1849. It is labelled by Hooker “‘S. tastes. Wall. rain 
junior)’’ and by C. B. Clarke “‘S. asiaticum, DC. FI. Ind. 11, 419” 
(which=crassipes, Wall., not astaticum, DC.) The other (also 
Q) is from ‘“Tongolo, Principauté de Kiala, Thibet Oriental,” 
J. A. Soulié, 1893 (No. 325). While possessing the slender 
branching rhizomes and unisexual flowers of S. Cretini, its stems 
are taller than in the type (8-16 cm. instead of 3—5 cm.), and its 
leaves longer and more toothed; in these respects it varies to- 
wards its close ally S. crassipes. This second plant, and the 
stoloniferous form of crassipes referred to above, suggest that S. 
Cretini might be more correctly placed under S. crassipes as a 
variety. 
S. discolor, Franchet. (Plate clxxiii). 
Four sheets in the Edinburgh herbarium and one at Kew are 
best placed here, but Franchet’s description must be amplified to 
receive them. His diagnosis, founded on two gatherings of 
Delavay (Nos. 3691, 3771) describes the plant as hermaphrodite, 
many-stemmed, leaves 2-3 mm. broad with a few teeth at the 
apex, and carpels 4 mm. long. ‘The gatherings which I have 
seen include both dioecious and hermaphrodite plants character- 
istically single-stemmed or at most 2—3-stemmed, with leaves 3-5 
mm. broad, toothed throughout their length or more rarely en- 
tire, and carpels (in the female and hermaphrodite plants) only 
1.5-2 mm. long, in fruit 3-4 mm. long. -In other features the 
