ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 107 
The figure (fig. 53) , such as it is, conveys an idea of the appearance 
of the plant, the barren shoots being drawn from the Uving plant, and 
the inflorescence added from the plate in " Gartenflora." 
Apparently the leaves are irregular in their arrangement. Rudolph 
and Maximowicz say they are alternate ; so does Ledebour [Ft. 
Rossica, 2, 182). Regel figures them as opposite, but says alternate 
in the accompanying description. In Miss Willmott's plant they 
are opposite. 
Named from the lilac-glaucous hue of the leaves. 
SECTION IV.— GIRALDIINA. 
[Section Giraldiina Diels in Engler's Bot. Jahrb., 36, 
Beibl. 82, p. 48, 1905. 
Founded to include two Chinese species — S. Scallanii Diels and 
another undescribed. Allied to section Telephium, but differing 
especially in possessing only five stamens. Neither species is in 
cultivation.] 
SECTION v.— AIZOON. 
Section Aizoon Koch, Synopsis, 259, 1836. 
Perennial. Rootstock thickened, roots slender. Stems annual 
(except 5. hyhridum). Leaves flat. Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-parted, 
bright yellow. Hardy East Asiatic plants. 
A small and compact group confined to N. and N.E. Asia. The 
species vary considerably in habit, from tall and erect to creeping, 
but the flowers, and in most cases the leaves, are very similar. Seven 
out of the nine species are in cultivation. The two not in cultivation 
are 5. Sikokianum Maxim., resembling a slender S. kamtschaiicum , 
and S. Yaheanum Makino, the only one of the section with entire 
leaves ; both are natives of Japan. 
Aizoon Linn. 
Selskianum Regel. 
Middendorffianum Maxim. 
Ellacombianum Praeger. 
kamtschaiicum Fisch. and Meyer. 
floriferum Praeger. 
hyhridum Linn. 
Maximowicz divided 5. hyhridum from the rest by its fruiting 
carpels " lanceolati basi connati erectopatuli," those of the others 
being " oblique ovati ad -J imam v. ultra connati indeque stellato- 
patentes." In fig. 54 the full-grown fruit of the species in cultivation 
has been drawn (excepting 5. Selskianum, of which good fruit was not 
available) , one carpel being removed to show the amount by which 
they are connate. It will be seen that the characters used by Maxi- 
mowicz are evident, but that they are not at all striking, a well-marked 
gradation being observable ; this gradation does not accord well with 
characters of flower, stem, and leaf. The group, indeed, does not 
