PRAEGER—SoME ASIATIC SEDUMS. 87 
M. Hamet’s description is full, and little can be added to it. 
{t is important to note that the caudex-leaves have the broad 
clasping base characteristic of Rhodiola, a critical point, to my 
mind of high diagnostic value, not previously mentioned. The 
leaves when dry are white at the tip, recalling those of S. 
limuloides, Praeger and S. spinosum, Thunberg. The petals 
are erect, concave, minutely beaded on the mid-rib, hooded at 
the apex, with a minute mucro behind and esheeding the tip. 
From the trace of colour remaining, they appear to be reddish. 
The carpels and scales in the specimen examined are considerably 
smaller than described by Hamet (carpels 1.5 mm. long instead of 
2.75, scales .5 mm. long instead of .75), and as I suspect that they 
are abnormal I have not figured them. 
In comparing the figure with that of S. primuloides (l.c.) it 
should be borne in mind that the latter is from a garden-grown 
plant. Collected specimens of S. primuloides are as dwarf and 
congested as in the figure of S. Leveilleanum, rendering the two 
very similar in appearance. 
S. lineare, Thunb. 
(1) Kwang-tung: Thai-yong, 60 miles W. of Swatow, July 
r9o1. J. M. Dalziel. 
(2) Kiangsi: Kew-Kiang Hills. 22.5.92. Sedum sp. Yel- 
low. W.R. Carles, No. 175. 
Sedum longistylum, Praeger, sp. nov. (Plate clxxv, 2). 
Species annua (vel biennis), inflorescentiis parvis ad apices 
ramorum longorum simplicium congestis, petalis oblongo-ovatis 
acuminatis purpureis, staminibus quinque, carpellis stylis longis 
coronatis distinguenda. 
Herba annua (vel biennis), glabra, 20-25 cm. alta. Caulis 
erectus, ramosus, ramis longis (ad 20 cm.) divergentibus simplici- 
bus floriferis. Folia alterna. Inflorescentia congesta, pseudo- 
umbellata, 1.0 cm. longa, 1.5 cm. lata, pedicellis quam flores 
brevioribus, bracteis paucis integris planis ovatis sessilibus brev- 
iter acuminatis 2- 3 mm. longis. Flores 10-20 (in quaque in- 
florescentia) purpurascentes. Calyx 3.5 mm. longus; pars con- 
creta 1.25 mm. longa; pars libera segmentis inaequalibus 5 ob- 
longo-deltoideis obtusis viridibus 1. 5-2.5 mm. longis, 1-1.25 
mm. hasi latis. Petala 5, oblongo-deltoidea acuta vel oblongo- 
ovata acuminata, 3.5-4.0 mm. longa, basi 1.25 mm. lata, parte 
Superiore purpurea. Stamina 5, episepala, 3 mm. longa, fila- 
mentis longissime deltoideis, antheris aureis. Squamae nectari- 
ferae minutae, emarginatae, paullo latiores quam longiores, .75 
