Refugiim Botanicum.] 
[Septemher, 1870. 
TAB. 221. 
Natural Order Crassulace^. 
Genus Sedum, Linn. 
S. EBEACTEATUM [Moc. et Sess. in D. C. Prodr. iii. 409). Foliis dense 
rosulatis obovatis subacutis crassis pallide viridibus glabris, ramorum 
floriferorum similibus patulis cordato-amplexicaulibus, cyrais dis- 
tantibus elongatis 5 — 6-floris bracteatis spicatis, lateralibus simpli- 
cibus, terminalibus furcatis, pedunculis glandulosis, sepalis glandu- 
losis lanceolatis basi connatis, petalis lanceolatis albidis calyce 
dupJo longioribus flore expanse falcatis, staminibus petalis paulo 
brevioribus exterioribus supra basin petalorum insertis. 
A native of Mexico. 
Leaves a dozen or more in a dense sessile rosette, obovate, 
pale green, glabrous. Flowering stems erect, about a foot high, 
glabrous, green mottled with red, the lower leaves like those of 
the rosettes, spreading, cordate-amplexicaul, an inch long, the 
upper growing gradually smaller. Flowers in a few distant 
elongated spicate cymes, with about half a dozen flowers in each, 
the lateral ones simple, on short erecto -patent peduncles, the 
terminal one dichotomously forked with two equal branches. 
Peduncles and calyx finely glandular. Sepals lanceolate, connate 
at the very base. Petals whitish, twice as long as the calyx, 
recurved, the fully-expanded flower a quarter of an inch across. 
Stamens subequal, nearly as long as the petals, the outer row 
attached a little above their base. Hypogynous scales Ungulate. 
Tab. 221. — 1, flower, complete ; 2, flower, with calyx and corolla 
stripped away : both magnified. — J. G. B. 
This is a species of Sedum seldom seen in collections, and is 
of easy cultivation in a warm dry greenhouse, potted in very 
sandy turfy loam, with a mixture of brick-rubbish or old mortar. 
It requires but little water at any season, but is very impatient of 
it during the winter season, when especially it should be kept 
near the glass. I have grown the plant for some years, and 
I regret that I have now no note of the source from whence my 
stock was obtained. — W. W. S. 
