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OF ORNAMENTAL EXOTIC PLANTS. 163 
E. COCCINEA Dec. 
The plant is softly pubescent, and the spikes of flowers are elongated and leafy. The flowers are scarlet on the 
outside, and of a pale red within, The stamens are yellow. ‘This species is figured in Loddiges’ ‘ Botanical 
Cabinet ” under the name of Cotyledon coccinea. It is a native of Mexico, and was introduced in 1816. 
E. RACEMOSA Schlecht. 
A native of Mexico, found abundantly on walls at Jalapa. The flowers, which are small and compact in form, 
are disposed in an elongated spike-formed raceme ; they are scarlet, with pale yellow inside. It is stated in the 
“ Botanist,” where the species is figured, that this plant “ grows on Monte Serata, and is called Talapulacajhata by 
the aboriginal inhabitants, among whom it serves, like the Myosotis palustris, or Forget-me-not among European 
nations, as an emblem of remembrance.” It was introduced in 1836. 
E. LURIDA Zaw. 
This species is remarkable for the colour of its root-leayes, which have a peculiar livid hue from being deeply 
stained with dull purple. The flowers are very small, and of a peculiarly rich scarlet; they are disposed in 
racemose spikes. The species, like the others, is a native of Mexico, and was introduced in 1830. 
E, SCHEERITI Lindl. 
Though this species is an abundant flowerer, it can scarcely be called handsome, from its untidy habit of growth 
and the dingy colour of its flowers. The root-leaves are glaucous and remarkably large. The species was 
introduced in 1842. 
E. ROSEA Jind. 
This is a remarkably handsome species, from its yellow flowers and bright pink bracts, which give it a very gay 
appearance. It has a tall stem, which is tinted yellow; and the leaves, which are produced in tufts, have a dark 
reddish hue on the underside. Like all the species of the genus, it should be kept in the greenhouse all the year, 
but it will not flower unless it has abundance of light. 
E. SECUNDA Sindl. 
The flowers of this species closely resemble those of EH. racemosa, excepting that they are all produced on one 
side. The plant has no proper stem, and the flower-scape rises from one side of a tuft of leaves closely resembling 
those of the common Houseleek. The species was introduced in 1839. Unlike most of the other species of the 
genus, this kind flowers in summer. 
Two other species have been mentioned in books: EH. bracteolata, which was found by Mr. Edward Otto in the 
Caraccas in 1840, but which is by no means ornamental ; and E. teretifolia, the leaves of which are cylindrical and 
almost loose at the base, and the flowers of which are said to resemble those of EH. secunda. 
GENUS V. 
SEDUM Lin. THE STONECROP. 
Lin, Syst, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Cuaracter.—Calyx five-parted ; sepals ovate, usually turgid, leaf-formed. Petals five, generally spreading. Stamens ten. 
Nectariferous scales entire or hardly emarginate. Carpels five. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c.—Most of the plants contained in this genus are hardy, and they consist of herbs or half- 
shrubs, the stems of which are usually branched, and the flowers are produced in flat heads, being mostly yellow, 
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