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Carpels erect, yellow, equalling the stamens, narrowed rather abruptly into the 
long slender styles, wide-spreading in fruit, when they are green or red. 
Flowers July-August. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Japan. 
This species is very poorly represented in herbaria. The only infor- 
mation I have been able to glean as to its habitat is derived from a speci- 
men (the only representative of the species in the British Museum) from 
Hance's Herbarium, collected as kamtschaticum at Hakodate, Japan, 
by Maximowicz in 1861 ; so that the plant belongs to N.E. Asia, as 
would be expected from its affinities. To judge from its wide dis- 
tribution in gardens it is evidently long in cultivation. I have seen it 
in, or received it from, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, 
Sweden, Russia, Japan, and Canada, under the names of Aizoon, Selski- 
anum, hyhridum, kamtschaticum, spurium, serotinum, etc. Plants from 
all these countries — from some twenty different sources in all — have 
been grown in my garden. They show that the plant is remarkably 
constant in character, though belonging to a group, several species of 
which display much variation. The only divergence from the type 
that I have observed is in a plant at Glasnevin, in which the flower- 
branches are longer, making the inflorescence larger and laxer — 3 to 
4 inches across. 
The only specimen in the Kew Herbarium is labelled " Sedum — , 
Kew Gardens, Sept. 18, 1901. Legit N. E. Brown," which shows that 
that botanist, who paid much attention to the Kew Sedums, had 
noticed its peculiar characters. 
Dedicated to the memory of Canon H. N. Ellacombe, who first 
urged me to undertake a revision of the cultivated Sedums. 
40. Sedum kamtschaticum Fisch. and Meyer (figs. 54c, 62). 
5. kamtschaticum Fischer and Meyer, " Index Seminum Hort. 
PetropoL," 7, 54, 1841. Maximowicz in Bulletin Acad. Petersbourg, 
29, 145, 1883. Masters in Gard. Chron., 1878, ii. 463. 
Synonyms. — 5. Brownii (or Braunii) and 5. Lehmanni (all nomina nuda) of 
some gardens. 
Illustration, — Wooster, " Alpine Plants," 2, pi. 22, 1874. 
A handsome plant, with dark-green foliage and large orange 
flowers ; often confused with some of its alHes of the Aizoon section, 
but easily distinguished. From S. hyhridum, which it most resembles 
in general appearance, it is separated by the absence of barren stems 
and of creeping habit, laxer inflorescence, larger flowers, sepals broaden- 
ing below (not linear), and stellate (not semi-erect) fruit. 5. Midden- 
dorffianum differs in its unbranched stems, narrower leaves, denser 
inflorescence, and smaller flowers ; 5. Ellacomhianum in its light-green 
colour, broader leaves, unbranched stems, denser inflorescence, and 
smaller flowers ; S. jloriferum in its linear sepals, smaller flowers, etc. 
Description. — A glabrous perennial without barren shoots. Rootstock 
thick and woody, much branched upward, branches twiggy. Stems arising in 
