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125. Sedum multicaule Wallich (fig. 152). 
S. multicaule Wallich, "Catalogue " No. 7232. Hooker fil. and Thorns, 
in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. 2, 102. Clarke in Hooker, "Flor. 
Brit. India," 2, 422. Hamet in Bulletin Soc. Bot. France, 56, 47, 
A small, unattractive species, with leaves resembling those of the 
reflexum group, and small dull yellow flowers. A common plant 
in the Himalayan region &c., not worth cultivation. Among the 
Sedums in cultivation it comes nearest to S. trullipetalum H. f. and T. 
and S. Celiac Hamet, but these have leaves only half as large 
(J inch long, not J inch). 5. trullipetalum has, moreover, whitish- 
yellow clawed petals, and 5. Celiac has not the stellate fruit 
characteristic of multicaule. 
Description. — A small, glabrous perennial (in cultivation, often annual). 
Stems usually branched below, branches ascending, 3 to 4 inches high, smooth, 
round, leafy. Leaves alternate, sessile, shortly and bluntly spurred, apiculate, 
linear, very fleshy, flat on face, rounded on back, about ^ inch long by -Jg inch 
broad. Inflorescence leafy, about 2 inches across, of several wide-spreading 
scorpioid branches, with a flower in the centre. Buds ovate, acute. Flowers 
sessile, f inch across. Sepals resembling the leaves, very unequal, linear, 
apiculate, fleshy, green, the shortest equalling the petals, separate nearly to the 
base. Petals yellow, ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, inconspicuous. Stamens 
slightly shorter than the petals, filaments green, anthers yellow. Scales whitish, 
emarginate. Carpels green, at first erect, later wide-spreading ; fruit stellate, 
often crimson. 
Flowers July-August. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Himalayas, China, Japan. 
Usually much branched below. Young plants were received from 
Edinburgh (grown from Himalayan seed), and seed received from 
Darjeeling Botanic Garden. There is an excellent unpublished 
coloured figure of the plant in the Kew collection of drawings, made 
by Mrs. George Govan, circa 1823-32. 
Described by Hamet, who has made a special study of the 
plant (loc. cit.), as perennial, but during a period of several years the 
plant in my garden, even when protected in winter, behaved as an 
annual, making no barren shoots, dying in autumn, and sowing itself 
freely. 
The name multicaule — many-stemmed — refers to its branching 
habit. 
126. Sedum trullipetalum H. f. and T. 
S. trullipetalum Hooker fil. and Thoms., in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., 
2, 102, 1858. C. B. Clarke in Hooker, " Flor. Brit. India," 2, 421. 
Hamet in Bulletin Soc. Bot. France, 56, 47. 
A small moss-like plant related to S. multicaule Wallich, S. Celiac 
Hamet (both of which are described and figured in the present 
paper) and others of the Japonica group. It differs from multicaule 
in its leaves half as large with a three-lobed (not entire) spur, petals 
clawed, obtuse, mucronate, nearly -f^ inch long (instead of not clawed, 
