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f. roseo-variegatum. 
Synonym. — Var. hittoniense hort. 
Variegated forms are so rare in Sedum that mention may be made 
of an interesting form which originated in the garden of the late Canon 
Eilacombe. In this the young stems and leaves are of a bright pink 
colour, but on approaching maturity they turn green. It is now 
in several gardens. 
A curious unisexual (female) form of purpureum is at Glasnevin, 
derived from a garden source. In this (see fig. 366') the sepals are 
normal ; the petals small, only ij times as long as the sepals, ovate- 
oblong, very concave, very blunt, whitish flecked with rose on back, 
almost erect ; carpels ij to 2 times the petals, not contiguous on 
the inner face, but having a central space in many cases as large as 
a carpel ; very irregular as regards position, and varying in number 
from 3 to 6, deep rose-coloured above ; styles very short, spreading 
widely (instead of erect or slightly spreading as in the type). Occasion- 
ally a single filament without an anther is present. The cause of 
the irregularity of position of the carpels and of the central hollow is 
their abnormal width : they are 2 mm. across (instead of ij mm.) 
and are remarkably flat on both inner and outer faces. 
25. Sedum Taquetii Praeger (figs. 36c, 40). 
S. Taquetii Praeger in Journ. of Bot., 56, 151, 1818. 
Allied to S. Telephium, S. maximum, S. pseudospectabile, and 
S. alboroseum, from all of which it is separable by its larger green 
and purple flowers, and especially by its remarkably large carpels 
with divergent tips. It comes nearest to maximum and alboroseum. 
resembling the former (not the latter) in having its leaves opposite 
and sessile, and the latter in having red pigment in the carpels, but 
not in the petals. Its habit is that of alboroseum, but it lacks the 
pale-green colour of that species, the leaves being of a deep-green shade, 
as in Telephium, but of the shape of those of pseudospectabile. 
Description. — A glabrous herbaceous perennial. Rootstock fleshy, with 
spindle-shaped tuberous roots as in 5. Telephium. Stems annual, erect, \ foot 
high, moderately stout, smooth, round, thickened below the nodes, mostly with 
some ascending axillary branches in the upper third. Leaves opposite, equalling 
or longer than the intemodes, sessile, elliptic, rounded at apex and base, slightly 
and bluntly toothed, fleshy, dark green more or less dotted with purple, about 
2\ inches long by ij inch broad, edges upturned in lower half so that the leaf 
appears to clasp the stem. Inflorescence of terminal and lateral rather dense 
rounded corymbs, 1-2 inches across, the lateral ones falling short of the terminal. 
Buds elliptic, blunt, green, J-f inch long, on pedicels of the same length. Flowers 
up to I inch across, | inch long, rather irregular in size. Sepals dark green, 
lanceolate or deltoid, blunt, fleshy, twice as long as the tube. Petals four times 
the sepals, up to f inch long, linear-oblanceolate, rather blunt, pale green, whitish 
near the base, wide-spreading. Stamens equalling the petals, the epipetalous 
ones adnate in the lower third, filaments whitish, anthers ovate, pale red. Scales 
strap-shaped, straight, four times as long as broad, emarginate, whitish, yellow 
at the apex. Carpels long, slender, erect with spreading tips, tapered below, 
merging into short styles above, equalling or slightly exceeding the petals, green 
streaked with purple, purple on the upper part of the inner face. 
