ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 295 
Flowers early June. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Southern Europe, from S.E. France to Crete. 
Rare in cultivation. Has long maintained itself in the gardens of 
the late Canon Ellacombe, and of Mr. E. A. Bowles. Sent to Wisley 
by Mr. Correvon. 
A very woody little plant, and the old stems bearing the star-shaped 
fruits may often be seen standing up among the flowering plants of 
the following season. The leaves are stated to be sometimes opposite 
or verticillate. 
The specific name has reference to the star-like fruit. 
143. Sedum formosanum N. E. Brown (fig. 175). 
5. formosanum N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 34, 134, 1885. 
A fioriferous annual alUed to the Japonica series, which in its 
spathulate leaves and yellow flowers recalls S. Alfredi Hance. It 
may be distinguished from its allies by its erect carpels, and very 
large, loose inflorescence. 
Description. — A glabrous annual, about 6 to 9 inches high. Stem procum- 
bent at base or erect, repeatedly forked di- or trichotomously, round, smooth, 
succulent, reddish ; branches divergent, ultimate branches recurved, indistinctly 
tetragonal with a groove down two opposite faces. Leaves alternate (occasionally 
opposite), bright green, paler below, softly succulent, recurved, pimply on face 
and edges when young, flat, spathulate, entire, very blunt, tapered below but 
scarcely stalked, midrib depressed on face, i inch long by nearly ^ inch wide, 
smaller above, merging into similar bracts. Inflorescence very large, loose, 
leafy, of many dichotomous or trichotomous branches with flowers in the forks, 
and a leaf or bract at each fork and below each flower. Buds ovate, blunt or 
apiculate. Flowers \ inch across, sessile or nearly so, bright yellow. Sepals 
spreading, green, unequal, spathulate, shortly-stalked, leaf-like, slightly spurred. 
Petals oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, yellow, y\ inch long, patent, i ^ times the 
longest sepal, twice the shorter ones. Stamens slightly shorter than the petals, 
spreading, filaments yellow, anthers reddish. Scales pale yellow, cuneate, 
rounded at the apex. Carpels greenish yellow, erect, equalling the stamens, 
styles short, slightly recurved ; carpels erect in fruit. 
Flowers April-May- June, or September-October (sown in May). 
Not hardy. 
Habitat. — E. China, Formosa, Korean Archipelago. 
Originally described from specimens raised at Kew from Formosa 
seed in 1885. Grown at Kew, Edinburgh, Glasnevin, and Wisley in 
1916 from seed kindly sent me by Mr. W. J. Tutcher, Superintendent 
of the Forestry Department, Hong-Kong. 
N. E. Brown describes it as " exceedingly pretty," but, though 
very floriferous, the blossoms are rather small and the plant straggling, 
and, though pleasing, it does not deserve such high praise. 
144. Sedum Someni Hamet (figs. 176, 177). 
S. Someni Hamet in Journ. oj Bot., 54, App. I., p. 18, 1916. 
Synonym. — S. Mairei Praeger in Journ. of Bot., bl, 53, 1919. 
Allied to the Japonica series, but annual or biennial, somewhat 
resembhng, in its rosettes of leaves, the spaihrtlifolinvi group from 
