Liefugium Botanicum. | [ November, 1871. 
TAB. 296. 
Natural Order CRASSULACER. 
Genus Sepum, Lani. 
Section PLANIFOLIA. 
5. apenotricuum (Wall. Cat. No. 7231). Herba carnosa perennis 
glanduloso-pubescens vel glabra foliis oblanceolatis acutis 
applanatis mediocribus ramorum sterilium rosulatis, ramorum 
fertiium sparsis, floribus 12—20 corymbosis vel thyrsoideo- 
paniculatis pedicellatis, calycis dentibus lanceolatis tubo super- 
antibus, petalis lanceolatis calyce superantibus flore expanso 
faleatis, staminibus 10 petalis brevioribus, carpellis diutine 
conniventibus, squamulis hypogynis parvis rotundis.—Hook. fil. 
et Thoms. Linn. Trans. ii. 101. 
A native of the temperate region of the Eastern Himalayas. 
A wide-spreading fleshy perennial herb, usually more or less 
downy, but the specimens drawn nearly glabrous. Barren shoots 
short, suberect, with about a dozen leaves in a terminal rosette 
hike that of an cheveria. Leaves oblanceolate, one-eighth of an 
inch thick, flattened on both faces, eight to ten lines long, acute, 
dull green mottled with red. Flowering shoots ascending from a 
decumbent base, scattered, ascending, with leaves similar to those 
of the rosettes in size, but narrower in proportion to the length. 
Flowers twelve to twenty, corymbose or thyrsoideo-paniculate, 
pedicellate, the branches bracteated by reduced leaves. Calyx 
turbinate, one-eighth of an inch deep, the lanceolate teeth 
exceeding the tube. Corolla two lines deep, yellowish white, 
tinged on the outside with red; petals lanceolate, falcately 
recurved when fully expanded. Stamens ten, shorter than the 
petals. Carpels white, permanently connivent. Hypogynous scales 
minute, ear-shaped. 
Tas. 296.—1, single flower; 2, a petal; 8, a stamen; 4, pistils 
and hypogynous scales: all magnified.—J. G. b. 
An interesting Sedum, native of the Eastern Himalayas, of 
rather straggling habit. It requires the temperature of a cool 
ereenhouse, and should have plenty of air and light. My plants 
were originally obtained from the Oxford Botanic Garden, to 
which establishment I am indebted for this and many other 
plants of great interest.—W. W.S. 
