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flushed with red, wide-spreading, later sharply reflexed, oblong, acute, keeled, 
equalling or shorter than the longest sepal. Stamens nearly erect, equalling 
the petals, filaments whitish, anthers purple. Scales yellowish, quadrate. 
Carpels green, slightly spreading, equalling the stamens, tapering into erect 
styles ; the carpels become deep red in fruit. 
Flowers December (gentle heat). Not hardy at Dublin. 
Habitat. — Sierra Madre, Monterey, Mexico. 
Received from Washington, New York, and Edinburgh. 
The name refers to the red colour assumed by the fruit. 
91. Sedum longipes Rose (fig. 115). 
S. longipes Rose in Bulletin New York Boi. Garden, 3, 43, 1903. 
"N. Amer. Flora," 22, 70. 
A curious Sedum, easily recognized by its long, low-arching, leafy 
branches rooting at intervals, small bright-green leaves very convex 
above, and small few reddish flowers with large forked scales. 
Description. — Glabrous, bright-green, perennial. Roots fibrous. Stems 
smooth, round, green mottled red, long-arching or decumbent, rooting at 
intervals, often with purple aerial roots, branching at the rooting points or 
towards the ends, ends of branches erect, slender, bearing terminal flowers. 
Leaves alternate, rather distant, very fleshy, sessile, slightly spurred, obovate or 
spathulate, entire, very blunt, reflexed, very convex above, flattish below, up to 
I inch long by y\ broad, diminishing at ends of shoots to \ long. Inflorescence 
of several (usually 2) terminal flowers on long filiform pedicels. Buds broadly 
ellipsoid, blunt. Flowers reddish, few, inconspicuous, -^^ inch across. Sepals 
green, fleshy, wide-spreading, ovate-lanceolate, blunt, with a blunt spur. Petals 
ovate, blunt, patent, red in upper part, becoming silvery white near base. 
Stamens wide-spreading, nearly equalling the petals, filaments whitish, anthers 
orange. Scales very large, spreading, tips reflexed, coloured like the petals, 
forked in upper part, the branches widely divergent, each with 2 or 3 reflexed 
teeth. Carpels short, erect, green ; styles short, reddish, with spreading tips. 
Flowers January (gentle heat). Very sensitive to frost. 
Habitat. — Sierra de Tepoxtlan, Mexico. 
A very distinct plant, remarkable both on account of its habit 
and its flowers. Planted where frost is excluded, it soon forms a tangled 
mass several feet across, the shoots arching for half a foot or so, then 
rooting and branching, and the branches arching similarly. The 
shoots of the following year arise from ovoid buds produced near the 
base of the stem, or at other points of the stem, especially where 
roots are formed. In a cold frame the stems get killed off by frost, 
the buds alone remaining (as often happens with 5. sarmentosum in 
the open) . The young leaves have a pimpled surface ; the hypogynous 
scales are very remarkable and abnormal for the genus. Flowers 
solitary according to Rose ; in pairs in my plants ; in clusters of 
as many as six in a specimen of Pringle's in British Museum. 
The large forked and toothed scales are very unusual in the genus. 
One of them is shown in the figure (fig. 115, a) where the carpel is 
foreshortened to show the full size of the scale. 
In cultivation in Britain the flowers are very pale, no doubt Owing 
to the weakness of the winter sunlight ; but in dried Mexican specimens 
they are of a deep purple. 
Received from New York and Edinburgh. 
