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Description. — An herbaceous perennial, usually with stem and leaves 
somewhat rough. Rootstock thickened, elongate, armed with the bases of the 
old stem, and crowned with conspicuous scale- leaves. Stems arising from the axils 
of the older scales, erect, slender, round, usually reddish, leafy throughout, 
6-12 inches long, mostly rough with many transparent bead-like glands. Leaves 
alternate, sessile, loosely imbricate, flat, slightly fleshy, lanceolate to oblanceolate 
or obovate or oblong-oblanceolate, acute to apiculate, or obtuse, rounded at 
base, toothed near apex or entire, finely papillose especially on the edges, | to 
I inch long, y\ to -{^ inch broad, dark green, paler below, midrib rather prominent 
on under-side. Inflorescence leafy, not dense, usually small in cultivation. 
Buds almost globular. Flowers dark purple, J inch across, pedicels slender, 
thickened upwards, longer than the flowers. Male flower : — calyx lobes tapering 
from a broad base, rather acute, fleshy, purple, equalling the green 'cube ; 
petals oblong-lanceolate, blunt, patent, twice the calyx, red and yellowish inside 
(fading purple), deep red-purple outside ; stamens f the petals, ascending, filaments 
red or purple, anthers deep red ; scales large, broadly cuneate, rounded or 
emarginate above, recurved, deep purple ; carpels small, short, erect, purplish. 
Female flower r — sepals, petals, and scales as in male ; stamens absent ; carpels 
stout, erect, with very short diverging styles. 
Flowers May-June. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Widely spread along the Himalayas, 12,000-17,000 
feet. 
Very rare in cultivation. Through the good offices of the Botanical 
Survey of India, I received very fine collected rhizomes, a foot in 
length and nearly 3 inches in girth. Specimens from Edinburgh, 
labelled S. humile, were received there from Calcutta, and an unnamed 
plant at Edinburgh, collected by Captain Bailey on the Upper 
Brahmaputra, proved to be a female S. himalense — the only one I 
have seen. 
Named after its habitat. 
13. Sedum fastigiatum Hooker fil. and Thomson (fig. 19). 
S. fastigiatum H. f. and T. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., 2, 98, 1858. 
Clarke in Hooker, "Flor. Brit. India," 2, 419. 
A typical Himalayan Rhodiola, and like most of them variable 
in flower as regards size and colour of parts. Allied to S. himalense 
and 5. tibeticum, in both of which, however, the leaf is broader and 
much thinner in proportion to its length. In S. himalense, moreover, 
the leaves are usually rough, and in S. tibeticum usually glaucous ; 
the small, narrow, fleshy, dark green shining leaves of 5. fastigiatum 
will separate it from either at a glance. The leaves of 5. dumulosiim 
Franchet are somewhat similar to those of the present species, 
but dumulosum has erect petals forming white bell-shaped flowers. 
5. quadrifidum comes nearest to 5. fastigiatum, but has smaller flowers 
and fruit. 
Description. — An herbaceous glabrous perennial. Caudex elongate, thick, 
branched. Stems many, from the summit of the branches, simple, erect, leafy, 
smooth, round. 3-6 inches long, the old ones persistent. Leaves alternate, 
crowded, linear-oblong to lanceolate, blunt, sessile, dark green, smooth, shining, 
fleshy, rounded on face, flat or concave on back, inch long. Inflorescence 
smallish, compact, bearing leaves on the branches, f to i inch across. Buds 
ovate, blunt. Flowers \ inch long, \ inch across, exceeding the pedicels, 4- or 
5-parted, narrow, cup-shaped. Male flower : — sepals linear to long-triangular, 
blunt, tube short ; petals broadly lanceolate, blunt, i ^ times the sepals ; stamtns 
