. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 41 Flowers June. Hardy. Habitat.—Himalayan region ; Yunnan. This species has been in cultivation for some years, as at Kew, Edinburgh, Glasnevin, and Bees nursery at Chester, but it seems to be not a good doer in cultivation (though a very robust plant in. Fig. II.—5. rotundatum. Male flower, x 5. the wild state), and it was only when this paper was at press that I at last saw flowers (at Edinburgh). The plants in cultivation were derived from seed collected by F. Kingd
. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 41 Flowers June. Hardy. Habitat.—Himalayan region ; Yunnan. This species has been in cultivation for some years, as at Kew, Edinburgh, Glasnevin, and Bees nursery at Chester, but it seems to be not a good doer in cultivation (though a very robust plant in. Fig. II.—5. rotundatum. Male flower, x 5. the wild state), and it was only when this paper was at press that I at last saw flowers (at Edinburgh). The plants in cultivation were derived from seed collected by F. Kingdon Ward (No. 764), G. Cave (No. 1456), and G. Forrest (no number). Named from its round leaves. 6. Sedum elongatum Wallich (fig. 12). 5. elongatum Wallich Catalogue, No. 7233, 1828. Hooker fil. and Thomson in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., 2, 98, 1858. Clarke in Hooker, " Flor. Brit. India," 2, 419. A peculiar Rhodiola, which in its tall growth and broad leaves recalls 5. TelepUum and its aUies ; but it is at once distinguished from these by its characteristic Rhodiola rhizome, its stems produced from tha axils of broad scales, its globular buds, and its dioecious black-purple flowers with very conspicuous scales forming a cup round the carpels. Its broad leaves and large scales will identify it from among the other Rhodiolas found in cultivation. Description.—A glabrous herbaceous perennial. Rootstock very fleshy, branched, growing points furnished with scales. Stems annual, arising from the axils of the older scales, erect, simple, leafy, round, smooth, i-ij foot high. Leaves alternate, sessile or very shortly stalked, obovate or elliptic, about 2 inches long by I to I inch broad, often largest near the top of the stem, becoming minute at the base, more or less toothed, very smooth, green with a pale midrib, pale below. Inflorescence terminal, large, loose, leafy, its branches rather long, shghtly pubescent. Buds globular, purple mottled with green. Flowers dark redd
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