348 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 
furfuraceo-tomentella. Columna circ. 2 mm. longa, vix 2 mm. 
lata basi in pedem 3 mm. longum producta. 
Nigeria :—Exact locality as yet unknown. Sent to the 
Royal Botanic Garden by Mr. Kenneth Hamilton in 1913, and 
flowered in July 1914. The flowers are of a greenish yellow ; 
the trilobed labellum is traversed longitudinally by a narrow 
strip of whitish scaly tomentum. 
SPECIES HIMALENSIS. 
Sedum Praegerianum, W. W.Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species ex affinitate S. linearifolii, Royle ; foliis floribusque 
minoribus, petalis erectis apice approximatis haudquaquam 
patentibus inter alia recedit; haud remota a Sedo Hobsoniz, 
Hamet quod foliis ovatis differt. 
Planta perennis radicibus crassiusculis. Caudex erectus 
crassus. Caules floriferi 7-12 cm. longi graciliusculi simplices 
glabri rubri, in cultura certe + prostrati, in speciminibus siccis 
ut videtur nonnunquam suberecti.. Folia alterna, infra inser- 
tionem in calcar non producta, 8-9 mm. longa, circ. 3 mm. lata, 
lineari-oblonga apice obtusiuscula, vix petiolata, integerrima, 
glabra, apice marginibusque rubro-tincta. Inflorescentia sub- 
_corymbiformis 3~7-flora; bracteae foliis subsimiles vel multo 
minores lineares; pedicelli calyce multo breviores vel non- 
nunquam subaequantes. Calyx circ. 4 mm. longus, glaber, 
fere ad imum fissus in lobos lineari-lanceolatos acuminatos, 
pallido-viridis roseo-suffusus. Corolla circ. 6 mm. longa glabra 
rosea ; petala basi paululo concreta, lineari-lanceolata, acumi- 
nata, brevissime apiculata, erectissima. Stamina Io glabra, 
filamentis 4-5 mm. longis roseis. Carpella 5, circ. 5 mm. longa ; 
squamae subquadratae, I mm. longae, brunneo-rubridae. 
East Himalaya :—In the Chumbi Valley, Tibet, at Tarkarpo, 
at an elevation of 12,000 ft. Rohmoo Lepcha, No. 137 in Herb. 
Calc. et Herb. Edin. Also in cultivation in the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, where it flowered July 1914. A Sedum of 
very distinct appearance; the rose-coloured petals remain so 
erect, even approximate, that the flower has quite the semblance 
of an Erica. 
The specific name is in honour of R. Lloyd Praeger, Esq., B.A., 
who has devoted much attention to the elucidation of the 
nomenclature of the species of this genus which are in cultivation. 
