igo JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
83. Sedum gracile C. A. Meyer (fig. 107). 
S. gracile C.AMeyev, " Enum. Plant. Cauc," 151, 1831. Bossier, "Flora 
Orientalis," 2, 781. Hamet in Trd. Bot. Sada (Tiflis) , 8, pt. iii. 25. 
A small linear-leaved plant, having, when not in flower, some re- 
semblance to S. sexangulare, but smaller and more tufted, not creeping. 
The flowers are white, not yellow as in sexangulare. Closely allied 
to S. Alberti, and almost identical in flower, but Alherti has a creeping 
habit and stems not quite so slender ; the branches of the inflorescence 
Fig. 107. — S. gracile C. A. Meyer. 
are semi-erect and forked, and the flowers are slightly smaller, while 
gracile, as already stated, does not creep, and the cyme-branches are 
not forked, and spread almost horizontally. 
Description. — A small evergreen glabrous perennial, bright-green in colour. 
Stems procumbent below but not creeping, much branched, terete, red, shining, 
clothed with old leaves save at the very base, with many ascending short, densely 
leafy shoots, the flowering ones i^ to 2 inches long, with leaves not so dense as on 
the barren shoots, which are shorter. Leaves linear-oblong, blunt, up to 
inch long on the flowering shoots, rather smaller on the barren shoots, flattish 
on face, much rounded on back, red-dotted, tips minutely papillose, sessile, 
prolonged into a short, blunt spur. Inflorescence usually of two, occasionally 
three or four simple patent branches with a flower in the fork, leafy throughout, 
the bracts identical with the leaves ; branches each \ inch long and each bearing 
six or seven flowers. Buds ovate, acute. Flowers inch across, subsessile. 
Sepals elliptic, rather acute, fleshy, green, resembling the leaves and 
bracts, free almost to the base. Petals broadly lanceolate, thrice the sepals, 
acute to acuminate, patent, slightly keeled, white ; on back often dotted red, 
with a greenish nerve. Stamens shorter than the petals, filaments white, anthers 
red-purple. Scales small, cuneate, retuse or emarginate, orange. Carpels pale 
