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spreading, twice the sepals ; scales conspicuous, quadrate, more or less retuse 
carpels nearly equalling the petals, slender, erect, slightly divergent above. 
Female flower : — sepals long-triangular to oblong, blunt, tube short ; pelals 
linear, blunt, times the sepals ; scales § the sepals, strap-shaped, emarginate, 
reflexed ; carpels very erect, slightly longer than the petals. 
Flowers May-June. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Himalayan region ; western Yunnan. 
The flowers vary in colour. My male plant is a white-flowered 
form — sepals dark purple with a green tube, petals and filaments 
white, anthers purple, scales orange, carpels green — a very bright 
little flower. Dried specimens at Kew appear to have the same 
coloration, but purple throughout the flower seems to be more 
usual. My female plant has flowers of a deep red-purple, the 
carpels and scales of a deeper tint than the petals, the sepals green. 
Plants collected in Yunnan by Forrest had pale lemon-yellow flowers, 
others greenish. 
Not recorded as in cultivation. The male plant came to me from 
Lissadell nursery as 5. quadrifidum, where it was raised from Darjeeling 
seed. The female was sent to Kew from Hexham-on-Tyne, where 
it grows in a school garden, and is supposed to have been found wild 
in Cornwall or Scotland ! 
Series II. Crassipedes. 
14. Sedum crassipes Wallich (figs. 20, 21). 
S. crassipes, Wallich Catalogue, No. 7234, 1828. Hooker fil. and 
Thomson in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., 2, 99. 
Synonyms. — S. asiaticum Clarke ex Hooker, " Flor. Brit. India," 2, 
41Q. Masters in Gard. Chron., 1878, ii. 267. (Not of De Candolle, 
*' Prodromus," 3, 401, 1828.) 5. Wallichianum Hooker, " Icon. Plant.," tab. 604. 
Illustration. — Hooker, loc. cit. 
A very distinct plant, at once recognized among the Rhodiolas 
by its linear toothed bright-green leaves and greenish-white flowers. 
Description. — A smooth herbaceous perennial. Rootstock thick, elongate, 
branched, aerial, J-f inch diameter, bearing withered bases of old stems. 
Stems several from each crown, smooth, round, erect, unbranched, 6-12 inches 
high. Leaves many, alternate, bright green, glabrous, ^-f inch long by 
inch broad, fiat, fleshy, linear to lanceolate, sessile, pointed at both ends, 
with I to 3 remote teeth on either side in the upper half. Inflorescence terminal, 
dense, flattish, an inch across, leafy with leaf -like bracts. Buds oblong, bluntly 
pointed, tVt^ i^^^h long. Flowers \ inch across when wide open, 5-parted, 
hermaphrodite. Sepals green or purple, subulate, blunt, wide-spreading. 
Petals yellowish-white to greenish, linear, acute or blunt, boat-shaped, mostly 
wide-spreading or reflexed, times the sepals. Stamens slightly exceeding 
the petals, spreading, filaments greenish, anthers yellow. Scales quadrate, 
orange, slightly notched. Carpels green, erect, slender, equalling or shorter 
than the stamens ; in fruit erect, and | inch long. 
Flowers June, and often again later. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Widely spread in the Himalayas, 11,000-16,000 feet ; 
central China ; Yunnan. 
This is the plant usually grown under the name of S. asiaticum 
DC. or sometimes 5. Wallichianum Hooker ; but as pointed out 
by Maximowicz {Bull. Acad. Petersb., 29, 126) De CandoUe's plant 
