82 PRAEGER—SoME ASIATIC SEDUMS. 
(2) Yunnan: On the Tong Shan in the Yangtze Bend. Lat. 
27° 20'N. Oct. 1913. Succulent plant of 6-8 inches. Flowers 
green. Ondry rocks. Forrest, No. 11,439. 
This plant was described by Hamet from incomplete specimens, 
wanting caudex and roots. These are present, though not in 
their entirety, on the two sheets referred to above, as also in the 
type specimen of var. Forresti, Hamet, described subseqdently to 
the species. They are puzzling and render difficult the placing 
of the species in any accepted section of the genus. One speci- 
men, apparently a young plant, has a bunch of straight roots, the 
main one tapered, recalling those of young plants in the sections 
Telephium and Aizoon. But mature plants show a sinuous un- 
branched rootstock some inches in length and % inch thick which 
each year produces a terminal flowering shoot, growth being con- 
tinued from a lateral point at the base of this, so that the caudex 
forms a rough zig-zag marked with scars of old shoots about % 
inch apart. This mode of growth is not found in any section of 
the genus. The leaves of the plant closely resemble those of 
section Telephium, being flat, very broad, entire. The large 
very unequal sepals recall those of the Japonica series and of 
many Mexican species, and are very far removed from those of 
Telephium. In Forrest 11,489 the leaves are subopposite or sub- 
ternate, not alternate as in the description. They are also de- 
scribed as oblong, but on both these sheets are broadly obovate, 
the upper ones alone approaching an oblong form. The absence of 
a perennial terminal bud producing scales from the axes of which > 
flowering shoots arise keeps the plant out of section Rhodicla, 
which in some respects it recalls. If the above observations are 
confirmed by more complete material, the plant may have to be 
placed in a new section. ° 
S. fastigiatum, H.f et T. 
Sikkim: Dzalep La. 14,000 ft. 4.7.13. ee among 
boulders and debris of scree. R.E. Cooper, No. 1 
S. filipes, Hemsley. 
Upper Burma: Kang-fang, E. flank of Imaw-Bum Range. 
Lat. 28° 20° Ny long. o8°° x0 Ale 6000 ft; ~45.0.10- 
Flower pure white, stamens brick red. Growing in beds of 
moss in a very dark situation beneath a big boulder in the forest. 
A charming little plant with the leaves almost membranous. 
F. Kingdon Ward, No. 3 
Well-preserved specimens in the Edinburgh herbarium, col- 
lected by E. H. Wilson in Hupeh in rgor and 1907, and others 
