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pale green until they open. Flowers \ inch across, equalling the pedicels. Sepals 
pale green, lanceolate, fleshy, acute, | the petals, tube very short. Petals ^ inch 
long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, wide-spreading, greenish white. Stamens spread- 
ing, equalling the petals, filaments white, anthers reddish, the epipetalous ones 
inserted \ way up the petal. Scales linear, twice as long as broad, retuse, greenish. 
Carpels erect, pink, equalling the petals, giving a pinkish colour to the flower ; 
styles short. 
Flowers September. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Japan, Manchuria, China, 
f. foliis medio- variegatis Kegel, " Gartenflora," tab. 709, fig. 6. 
A form with a white blotch in the centre of the leaf, occasionally 
seen in gardens. Like many variegated plants it is best grown in 
shade. Inclines to revert to type, and stems with green leaves need 
to be pulled off. 
f. foliis margine-variegatis. 
Leaves with a border of greenish-white. I received this from 
Ottawa and from the Tully Nursery in Co. Kildare, and there is a 
specimen of it in the Kew Herbarium from Hort. Justus Corderry, 
Oct. 14, 1904 " ; I find no published reference to it. It is a form of 
no great merit. 
27. Sedum pseudospectabile Praeger (figs. 36^, 42). 
S. pseudospectabile Vrsiegei in Journ. of Bot., 54, 40, 1917. 
Closely allied to the well-known 5. spectahile Boreau, from which 
it differs in its stems half as tall again, leaves green (not glaucous), 
rounded at the base (not cuneate) , and about as long as the internodes 
(not twice as long) , smaller inflorescence, and flowers with all the parts 
shorter by about one-third ; it flowers nearly a month earlier. 
Description. — An erect glabrous herbaceous perennial. Roots tuberous, 
carrot-like. Stems annual, few, erect, unbranched, smooth, round, green dotted 
red, 1-2 foot high. Leaves ternate or opposite (occasionally in fours), fleshy, 
sessile, clasping, entire or obscurely toothed, green with paler veins, lower broadly 
obovate, upper broadly ovate, i| to 2 inches long by i to ij broad, equalling 
the internodes, mostly concave, often margined and dotted with red. In- 
florescence a terminal compact flat panicled cyme, about 2 inches long and broad, 
sparingly leafy. Buds oval, bluntly pointed. Flowers -^^ inch long, \ inch across, 
on pedicels shorter than the flowers. Calyx cup-shaped, rather glaucous green, 
segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, thrice the tube, tipped red. Petals twice the 
sepals, ^ inch long, pink, ovate-lanceolate, acute, spreading but not patently. 
Stamens i\ times the petals, nearly erect, the epipetalous ones inserted near the 
base of the petals, filaments pink, anthers purple. Scales yellowish, curved 
upwards, quadrate-cuneate, i| timea as long as broad. Carpels erect, slender, 
pink, equalling the petals, styles slightly divergent. 
Flowers August-September. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Chinwangtao, on the coast east of Pekin (Prof. I. 
Bayley Balfour, 1910). 
Received first from Edinburgh as above ; when the plant flowered 
it proved to be identical with another received meanwhile from the 
University Botanic Garden at Sapporo under the name S. spectabile. 
