ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 22$ 
Stems with ascending branches, spathulate leaves in whorls of four, 
and few-fiowered cymes of yellow flowers distinguish it. The follow- 
ing account is condensed from the original description and figure. 
Description. — A small, glabrous, caespitose perennial. Roots fibrous. 
Stems creeping, with erect or ascending simple branches 2 to 5 inches high, 
round, light green, purplish and rooting at base. Leaves 4- (occasionally 5-) 
verticillate, or the upper ones alternate, shorter than the intemodes, those of the 
Fig. 128. — S. Zentaro-Tashiroi Makino. 
barren shoots and lower part of flowering shoots spathulate- obovate, obtuse or 
subretuse at apex, attenuated into a petiole, largest above, upper leaves of 
flowering shoots spathulate-linear, obtuse or acute, narrower below, \ inch long. 
Inflorescence a 2- or 3 -branched few-flowered cyme, branches 2- to 3 -flowered, 
bracts linear, green. F/ote/^ys 'short-stalked, \ inch diameter, yellow. Sepals un- 
equal, linear to linear- lanceolate, blunt. Petals wide-spreading, ovate- lanceolate, 
shortly acuminate. Stamens scarcely Tshorter than the petals, filaments yellow, 
anthers reddish. Scales minute, spathulate-oblong, truncate-rounded at apex. 
Carpels erect, lanceolate, connate below, greenish- yellow ; styles slender, \ the 
ovaries. Fruit spreading. . 
Flowers May. ? Hardy. 
Habitat. — Japan. Named after the finder, who obtained it in 
the province of Tsushima in 1909. 
