We made the same remark on the S. /ingu/ata. ‘They have 
neither of them the hardy character of the S. crassifolia. 
Descr. The root-stock is large, thick, woody, horizontal, 
branched. The /eaves spring from the apex of the branches 
and from amongst acuminated brown scales, and are patent, 
spreading, nearly horizontally, on the ground, elliptical, or rarely 
approaching to obovate, fleshy and somewhat coriaceous, obtuse 
at both ends, coarsely crenato-serrate, penninerved, hairy on both 
sides, and strongly ciliated at the margin: pefco/es from half an 
inch to an inch long, having at the base large, lax, sheathing, 
membranaceous, concave, ciliated stipules. Scape arising from 
the centre of the leaves and crown of the root, glabrous, red. 
Flowers in a cymose panicle, large. Pedicels red. Calyz large, 
lax, inferior, greenish, tinged with red, five-lobed ; /odes large, 
oval. Petals large, white, ovate, on short broad claws. Stamens 
ten, shorter than the petals. Ovary quite free, with two, or oc- 
casionally three, erect styles. Stigmas large, capitate. 
Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
