Sedum goldmanii (Rose) Reid Moran

Altamiranoa batesii (Hemsl.) Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 32. 1903
Cotyledon Batesii Hemsl. Diag. PI, Nov. 1 : 9. 1878.
Perennial, suffrutescent at base, with rather short (1-1.5 dm. long), spreading, reddish branches. !Leaves on short sterile branches in dense rosettes, on flowering branches
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linear, terete, or nearly so, 1 cm. long, acute, tuberculately roughened, in age curved backward and sometimes even reflexed ; inflorescence a leafy, few-branched, fiat-topped cyme ; flowers sessile; sepals distinct, linear, turgid, green, very unequal, 2-4 mm. long; corolla
4 mm. high, the lobes widely spreading, ovate, white except a green or purplish stripe on
back but dr5dng purplish, the tube about 1 mm. long ; stamens all borne on the corolla,
about half as long as the lobes ; 'scales small, purple.
Type locality : Mexico. Distribution : Central Mexico.

Altamiranoa goldmani Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 32. 1903
A low much branched Sedum-li^o. plant, glabrous throughout, with tuberous-thickened roots. Old stems somewhat woody, procumbent and rooting at the joints, bearing scattered rosettes of leaves; flowering branches more elongated, 5-6 cm. long, rose-colored, bearing many rather closely set leaves ; leaves very narrow, linear or nearly so, 10-12 mm, long, flattened, obtuse ; inflorescence a very compact few-flowered cyme ; flowers sessile ; sepals distinct, linear, fleshy but flattened, obtuse, appressed to the corolla, unequal, 4-6 mm. long, reddish-tinged; corolla 6 mm. long, not at all 5-angled, very thin when dry, pale-yellow, tinged with red, orangecolored when dry, its tube a little longer than the lobes ; lobes ovate, acute, spreading ; stamens 10, all borne at the top of the corolla-tube ; scales small, purplish, 0.3 mm. long, about as broad as high, retuse at apex ; carpels 5, distinct, oblong, reddish near tip, many-seeded ; styles short.
Type locality : Summit of Cerro de Patamban, Michoacan, Mexico. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.

Altamiranoa mexicana (Schlecht.) Rose
Umbilicus mexicanus Schlecht. I^innaea 13 : 409. 1839. Cotyledon mexicana Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 1 : 390. 1880.
Perennial; stems woody, erect, glabrous. Leaves linear in outline, glabrous, 4-8 mm.
long, obtuse ; inflorescence cymose ; sepals filiform, shorter than the corolla ; corolla white,
campanulate, its lobes acuminate, united at base into a short tube.
Type locality : Mineral del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.