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reddish, broader than long. Carpels crimson, erect, equalling the stamens ; 
spreading in fruit. 
Flowers June- July. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Asia Minor and Caucasus. Now found in most good 
collections. 
The specific name emphasizes the plant's resemblance to a 
Sempervivum. 
138. Sedum pilosum M. B. (fig. i66). 
5. pilosum Marschall von Bieberstein, " Flor. Taurico-Caucas. " 1, 352, 
1808. Boissier, "Flor. Orient.," 2, 786. Hamet in Trd. 
Bot. Sada (Tiflis), 8, pt. iii. 28. 
Synonym. — S. Regelii (a nomen nudum) of gardens. 
Illustrations. — M. von Bieb., " Cent. Plant." tab. 40. Bot. Mag., pi. 8503. 
Gard. Chron. 191 1, i. fig. 160. 
A remarkable and showy little biennial plant, with a wealth of 
rose-pink blossoms. The dense, hairy rosettes of the first year's 
growth closely resemble those of a Sempervivum, but in the second 
and final year the five-parted flowers with free petals and ten 
stamens, though in shape recalling those of a Crassula, show where 
its affinities lie. 
Description. — Biennial, forming in the first year a dense subglobular 
rosette of downy, incurved leaves. Flower-stem erect, 2 to 4 inches long, leafy, 
much branched above. Leaves of rosette linear-spathulate, bluntly pointed, 
hairy, sessile, very fleshy, dark green, densely imbricate, about J inch long ; 
those of the flowering stems larger, | inch long, ^ inch broad, oblong- 
obovate. Inflorescence a dense, much- branched, panicled cyme, i| to 3 inches 
across, surface convex. Flowers | inch long, J to f inch across, longer than the 
pedicels. Sepals erect, linear, acute, not contiguous, downy, dark green, separate 
nearly to the base. Petals erect below, wide-spreading above, oblong, acute, 
rose-coloured, downy on back, \ longer than the sepals. Stamens equalling 
the sepals, anthers reddish or yellowish. Scales minute, oblong, colourless. 
Carpels erect, green, equalling the stamens, styles red. Fruit stellate-patent. 
Flowers May- June. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Asia Minor, Caucasus. 
Though described as long ago as 1808, the plant only recently came 
into cultivation, and was unknown in our own country until 1910, when 
seeds were distributed by Kegel and Kesselring of Petrograd. The 
species is, unfortunately, only biennial, but the seeds germinate 
freely. A dry niche suits it well. 
The name pilosum refers to the hairy nature of the plant. 
139. Sedum indicum Hamet (figs. 167, 168). 
S. indicum w^r. genuinum Hamet in Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb., 5, 
115, 1912. 
Synonyms. — Crassula indicaDecdJisnQ in Jacquemont, " Voyage dans ITudo." 
4 (Botanique), p. 61, tab. 61, fig. i. Hooker fil. and Thompson in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. {Bot.), 2, 90. Clarke in Hooker, " Flora Brit. India," 2, 413. Sedum 
paniculatum Wallich Cat., No. 7227. 
Illustration. — Jacquemont, loc. cit. 
