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* ZEONIUM cruentum. 
Bleeding Stoneleek. 
DECANDRIA DECAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CRASSULACE. 
SEONIUM. Calyx campanulatus, cyathiformis, aut turbinatus, apice 
6-12-dentatus, aut medium usque 6-12-fidus. Petala totidem quot calycis 
laciniz, perigyna, stamina superantia ad apicem disci hypogyni inserta, basi 
in annulum cum filamentis coalita, estivatione imbricata, apice contorta. 
Stamina petalorum numero dupla, breviora petalis opposita.  Filamenta fili- 
formia, aut magis minusve dilatata. Anthere ovatee, aut rotundato-ovate, 
obtuse, acutiuscule, aut apiculate, sacculis confluentibus, lateraliter dehis- 
centibus, post emissionem pollinis reyolutis. Squame perigynee nulle, vel 
quadratee, claviformes aut obcordate, apice integree aut obsolete crenatee, 
erectee, ovariis applicatee. Ovaria petalis numero eequalia, intus recta aut 
subincurva, acuta, basi receptaculo immersa. Styli 3-quetri, extus leviter 
incurvi. Stigmata acuta, demum papillato-capitata. Cocca follicularia in- 
dehiscentia, aut demum basi et dorso per disruptionem dehiscentia. Placente 
filiformes, ad marginem interiorem cocci, aut crassee per medium valvarum 
curvatee. Semina elongato-ovata, aut oblique subpyriformia, Embryo ovatus 
obesus. Cotyledones ovatze, sessiles. Radicula brevissima obtusa.—-- Suf- 
frutices ramosi, aut herbee basi lignescentes propagines emittentes. Folia rosu- 
lata, crassa, subtus convexa, vel gibba, margine pulosa cartilagineo-ciliata, aut 
papillata, Paniculee eymose, aut thyrsoidee. Flores lutei, vel fulvi, raris- 
simé rosei, Pedicelli in prefloratione nutantes. Inflorescentia centrifuga. 
Webb Hist. Nat. Canar. p 184. 
A cruentum ; caule fruticoso erecto, ramis rectis puniceo-cruentatis glandu- 
loso-puberulis, paniculis cymosis, foliis cuneato-spathulatis glaberrimis 
crassis in petiolum attenuatis margine papillosis supra viridibus subca- 
naliculatis subtus convexiusculis lineolis sanguineis notatis, floribus 
parvis 6-8-meris, antheris muticis, coccis brevibus anticé subrectis dorso 
planis. Webb Phytogr. Canar. p. 186. t. 28. 
No one who has studied this order critically will deny that 
the distinctions of the old genera Sedum and Sempervivum 
are unsatisfactory, in consequence of the uncertainty in the 
* Among the synonymes adduced by Dioscorides to his afwory peya, 
the Sempervivum arboreum, occurs the word awyov, which Mr. Webb has 
adopted for the present genus. 
