422 MI. CBASSTOACB^. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Sedivm. 



obovoid finely striate longitudinally. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 185 ; S. f. ^ T. in 

 Jmirn. Linn. Soc. ii. 102 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 790. S. Urvillei, JDC. Prodr. 

 iii. 408. 



Punjab Plain; Peshawur, Vicary; Hurroo and Hassababad, Aitchiaon, — Dis- 

 TBiB. Afghanistan and thence to Greece. 



Glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent. Leaves 1 in., oblong to linear. Flowers 

 5-nierous subsessile, white (or rose ex Boissier). Petals acute, thrice as long as the 

 triangular acute sepals. C^wse-branches minutely glandular, divaricate-recurved in 

 fruit. — A species that has been confounded with S. muUicaule ; it differs in its habitat 

 and is absolutely separate by the seed. 



22. S. multicaule, Wall. Cat. 7232 ; glabrous, stem 3-8 in. high usually 

 much divided from the base, carpels not tuberculate, seeds obovoid covered with 

 minute tubercles, jff. /. 4" T- *** Jbum. Linn. Soc. ii. 102. S. japonicum, 

 Sieb. Serb, in Miq. Ann. Mug. Sot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 156. 



Tbmpeeatb Himalaya, alt. 4000-7000 ft., from Kashmie to Bhotak ; frequent.^ 

 — DisTBiB. China and Japan. 



Leaves ^1 in. long, linear-oblong, acute. Flowers subsessile, petals yellow. Cyme 

 branches divaricate in fruit, usually elongate, subscorpioid. 



23. S. perpusiUum, S. f. 8r T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 103; glabrous, 

 stems 1-2 in. branching crowded, foUicles short oblong turgid small, seeds large 

 (therefore few in each carpel) obovoid hispid with elongate papillae. 



SiKKiM, alt. 12,000 ft., J. D.S. 



Leaves J in. long, sessile, oblong or linear. C}/me small, leafy. Flowers pedicellate, 

 erect. Sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals white, oblong, a little longer than the sepals. 

 FolUcles connected ^ their length. — The specimen referred here by H. f. & T. collected 

 in the "Western Himalaya has different seeds ; it is in too imperfect a state for 

 identification. 



7. SEMCPERVXVTTia, lAnn. 



Fleshy herbs, often sending up annual flower-stems jfrom a rosette of leaves 

 crowning the perennial rootstock. Leaves alternate. Cymes paniculate. Flowerg 

 in the Indian species 8-merous, more rarely 6-8-merou8. Calyx divided nearly 

 to the base. Petals free, or scarcely cohering at the base, oblong-lanceolate. 

 Stamens double the number of the petals, free. Hypogynous scales small, bifid, 

 imited in pairs. Carpels ec[ual in number with the petals, free or adnate to the 

 calyx, narrowed upwards into filiform styles ; ovules very numerous. Follicles 

 many-seeded. — Distkib. Species 40, extending from the Canary Islands across 

 South Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and the Western Himalaya. 



1. S. acuminatum, Dene, in Jaeq. Voy. Bot. t. 74 ; leaves mucronate 

 glabrous, pedicels and sepals glabrous or slightly ciliate, sepals oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate scarcely pubescent, H. f. S/- T. in. Jowm. lAnn. Soc. ii. 92. S. 

 himalayense, Klotiseh inReis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. t. 43. Sedum Moororoftianum, 

 Wall. Cat. 7228. 



Alpine Himalaya, from Kunawcr to Kashmie, alt. 10,000-15,000 ft.; West 

 Tibet, Strachey ^ Winterbottom, &e. 



Stems 4--8 in. high. Eosnlate leaves 1-2^ in. long, obovate-lanceolate or nearly 

 linear ; cauline ^-J in., sessile, oblong, acuminate, but little imbricate. Cyme some- 

 what lax. Petals glabrous, purple-rose, twice or thrice the sepals. Seeds narrow 

 obovoid, striate longitudinally. 



