Refugiwn Botanicum. | August, 1868. 
TAB. 32. 
Natural Order CrassuLACcER. 
Genus Srpum, Linn. 
S. SPECTABILE (Boreau, Monogr. de quelques Sedums, p. 7). Foliis ternis 
vel oppositis pallide virentibus patulis obovato-spathulatis denticu- 
latis basi subcuneatis, corymbis amplis densis subplanis ramis pri- 
marlis oppositis, pedicellis floribus brevioribus, sepalis lanceolatis 
petalis triplo brevioribus, petalis pro genere magnis lanceolatis 
patulis lilacino-roseis, staminibus longioribus petalis multo exceden- 
tibus, carpellis rostratis petalis concoloribus squantibus. — Ana- 
campseros spectabile, Jordan and Fourreau, Ic. Fl. Eur. p. 37, t. 
100. Sedum Fabaria, Lemaire, Illust, Hort. vol. viii. t. 271, non 
Koch. 
A native of Japan. 
Stems several from a root, glaucous-green, ascending, a quarter 
of an inch thick at the base. Leaves usually in whorls of three, 
sometimes in pairs, and on weak shoots occasionally solitary, 
obovate-spathulate, spreading nearly horizontally, two and a half 
to three inches long when well-developed, by about half as broad, 
bluntly and distantly toothed, cuneately narrowed at the base, 
nearly flat, in colour a pale bright slightly glaucous-green, the 
whorls about an inch and a half apart. Main branches of the 
corymb arising from the same point, the bracts of which are like 
the leaves, but only about half as long. Corymb almost flat- 
topped, in well-developed plants four or five inches across. 
Bracteoles small, linear. Ultimate pedicels three or four lnes 
long, pale glaucous-green. Calyx an eighth of an inch deep, the 
divisions lanceolate, a very pale green and not at all spotted. 
Petals lanceolate, three-eighths of an inch deep, narrowed gra- 
dually to an acute point, magenta-red, spreading, when the flower 
is fully expanded, from three-quarters of the way down, so that 
the corolla then measures quite half an inch across. Stamens 
generally in two sets of five each, those opposite the petals 
attached a short distance above their base and considerably 
exceeding them, the inner row attached quite at the bottom of the 
corolla, just equalling both it and the long-pointed carpels, which 
are both the same length and the same colour as the petals. /y- 
pogynous scales spathulate, conspicuously emarginate at the apex. 
