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Seen at Edinburgh, where, among a number of male and female 
plants, were three of an interesting and undescribed hermaphrodite 
form, with very large flowers (comparatively) and scattered reflexed 
leaves, of which I give a figure and description. It may deserve 
varietal rank, but in the absence of better knowledge of this variable 
species I hesitate to create a new name. Grown also from seeds 
received from Yunnan from Rev. E. E. Mai re, both male and female 
plants. 
As in the many Rhodiolas, the colour of the parts of the flower 
is variable (see also Notes Roy. Bot. Gard., Edinh., 8, 139), and the 
leaves vary from green to reddish. 
SECTION III.— TELEPHIUM. 
Section Telephium S. F. Gray, "Nat. Arrang. Brit. Plants," 2, 
p. 539, 1821. 
Perennial. Rootstock short, with roots (fig. 35) usually thick. 
Fig. 35.— Roots of S. Telephium. 
branched, often of carrot-like tubers, summit without scales. Stems 
mostly annual, produced from buds arising generally in autumn 
from points beside or above the base of the stems of the previous year. 
Leaves usually broad. Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-parted, white, 
red, purple, or green. Hardy plants, mostly Eurasian. 
A group of about twenty-five perennials, often tall. The well- 
known Orpine, S. Telephium, is typical. They range across the 
temperate regions of the Old World from England to Japan, being 
