80 PRAEGER—SoOME ASIATIC SEDUMS. 
lata, parte superiore erecta. Petala ovato-oblonga, sub-acuta, per- 
concava, patentia vel deflexa, 2.25 mm. longa (3 mm. longa ex 
Franchet), 1 mm. lata. Stamina 8, 2 mm. longa, epipetala 
brevissime adnata. Squamae nectariferae spathulato-cuneatae, 
integrae, .5 mm. longae et latae. Carpella erecta, 1.25 mm. 
longa (4 mm. longa ex Franchet), stylis incurvatis. Flos fem- 
minus :—Sepala deltoidea, obtusa, I-2.5 mm. longa, .6-I.0 mm. 
lata. Petala oblonga, obtusa, 2-4 mm. longa, 1.25 mm. 
lata. Stamina nulla. Squamae nectariferae cuneato-oblongae, 
integrae, .6 mm. longae, .5 mm. latae. Carpella 2 mm. longa, 
crassa, erecta, stylis Yintadiis divergentibus. Folliculi erecti, 
3-4 mm. longi. 
(1) Yunnan : Eastern flank of the Lichiang Range. Lat. 27° 
20’N. Alt. go00-10,500 feet. June 1906. Plant of 9-12 inches. 
Flowers reddish-brown, anthers green Dry, stony, open situa- 
tions, ledges of cliffs, ete. G. Forrest, No. 2441. (Male plant. 
Recorded as ‘‘S. bupleuroides?’’ in Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 
Vii, I3I). 
(2) Yunnan: Eastern flank of the Lichiang Range. Lat. 27° 
15’ N. Alt. 12,000 feet. June 1910. Plant of 4-8 inches. 
Flowers deep ruddy-green. Open mountain pasture. For- 
rest, No. “5690. (Female and hermaphrodite plants. Re- 
corded as S. bupleuroides in Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. viii, 
40). 
(3) Sikkim: Changu. Alt. 12,500 feet. 2.7.13. On turf 
among mossy boulders. R. E. Cooper, No. 128. 
(4) Sikkim: Changu. Alt. 12,500 feet. 28.6.13. Amongst 
mossy boulders old river bed. R.E. Cooper, No. 26. 
(The last two not very characteristic—leaves entire and nearly 
sessile, only slightly glaucous below, and caudex, though horiz- 
ontal, somewhat thickened). 
Wilson’s No. 3623 (‘‘Rocks, 12,000 feet. 7/04’’) in the herb- 
arium at Kew and the British Museum, belongs here—a dwarf 
plant with unusually broad, ovate leaves (9 x ‘S mm.) only 
slightly glaucous below. Wilson’s No. 3623a ‘‘10,750 feet. 
6.04”? at Kew is a taller form with longer leaves of the same 
‘breadth as the last. 
Undoubtedly this species and S. purpureoviride are near the 
Himalayan S. bupleuroides, but that species is especially dis- 
tinguished by its very broad entire glabrous leaves, which are 
‘constant in these characters. In view of the sanbaleekaliiy of 
floral features in the Rhodiolae, leaf-characters possess an added 
importance, and even if the difefences of flower between the 
three prove with further material to be slight, the leaf-characters 
are well marked ; the slender, creeping caudex of S. discolor be- 
sides separates it from the other two, just as the characteristic 
