Sedmn.] liii, CBASSULACBa. • (0. B. Clarke.) 421 



pubescent stem and sepals : but the only absolute distinction appears to lie in the 

 more acute petals, 



17. S. Griffltlillj^ C. B. Clarke; stems 2-4 in. very weak glalDrous, 

 Pauline leaves |-J in. linear, cyme leafy corymbose, sepals narrow oUong, 

 petals white elliptic lanceolate. S. adenotrichum, Var. (3., H.f. ^ T. inJowm, 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 101. 



Bhoian; Griffith. 



H. f. & T. probably joined this with S. adenotrichtlm because of the acute petals ; 

 but in all other points, especially its weakness 'Snd glabrousness, it is nearer S. rosu- 

 latwm. _ It diflfers from both in the linear cauline leaves and particularly in the cyme, 

 which is coiymboee and somewhat dense, with linear bracts like the cauline leaves. 



18. S. trullipetalum, S.f. ^ T. inJown. Idrm. Soc. ii. 102 ; glabrous, 

 stems 2-4J in., cauline leaves ^ in. imbricate lanceolate-linear acute, cymes 

 dense, petals white-yellow with a very long claw and ovate cordate or lanceolate 

 limb. 



TKirPEaA.TB and Alpinb Himalaya from Sikkim to KaShmie, alt. 11,000-16,000 ft. 

 Eosulate leaves ^in. long, ovate-lanceolate. Sepals elliptic-lanceolate, acute. 



19. S. Jaesclifcel, Kwz in Seem. Joum. JBot. v. 240; annual, leaves 

 spathnlate-oblong acute often rosulate, flowers large golden solitary. 



IiAHXTL, in West Tibet ; Jaesohke. 



Branches 4-5 in. or less, crowded, simple, or branched from the base. Lower 

 leaves generally densely rosulate ; cauline scattered, smaller, narrower, or crowded 

 towards the end of the branches. Flowers solitary at the end of the branches or 

 crowded in dwarf specimens, nearly ^ in. long. Calyx segments |-J in. long, 

 fleshy, green, similar to and often larger than the leaves. Petals double the sepals, 

 lanceolate, obtuse. Stamens less than half the length of the petals. 



The above is closely copied from Mr. Kurz, who evidently possessed better mate- 

 rials than certain scraps transmitted to Kew by Jaeschke and referred by Dr. 

 Thomson to S. asiaticum, which has not the elongate leafy branches of the corymb. 



There are several points however in which Mr. Kurz' description does not fit the 

 flowering slips (3 in. long) at Kew ; Mr. Kurz says that the leaves are shorter than 

 the sepals which are but 3 to 4 lines long ; in the Kew examples the leaves on the 

 corymb branches are ^ in. long and more. The Kew slips may however belong to 

 examples of S. asiaticv/m in its first year of flowering. 



20. S. Ewersii, Ledeh. Fl. Alt. ii. 191; glabrous, stems 4-12 in., cauline 

 leaves ^-1 in. diam. remote obovate or orbicular opposite or some of the upper- 

 most alternate, cymes usually dense, flowers rose-purple. Ledeh. Fl. Moss. ii. 

 182, and Ic Fl. Boss. t. 58 ; S.f. 8r T. in Joum. lArni. Soc. ii. 102. S. Gerar- 

 ■dianum, WaU. Cat. 7235. S. azureum, JRoyle III. t. 48. S. rubrum, Royle III. 

 ^. 222 ; Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 47. 



Tbmpiseate and Alpine Himalaya from Ktjmaon to Kashmir, alt. 9000-17,000 ft. ; 

 frequent. — Disteib. Alpine Siberia a^d Soongaria. 



Leaves fieshy, glaucous, entire or sinuate. Cymes sometimes less dense, corymbose 

 with alternate branches. That the flowers are ever blue appears to rest wholly on 

 Eoyle's flgure. Seeds ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid, testa not loose. 



** Follicles 3-5, divaricate in fruit. 



21. S. pallidum, JBieb. Fl. Taw. Cam. i. 353 and iii. 314; stems 1-5 in. 

 annual solitary cymose at top, carpels minutely squamose-tuberculate, seeds 



