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easily distinguished by its peculiar stems, the lower part of which is 

 thick and silvery-white, owing to the presence of the bleached bases of 

 the old leaves ; the latter is a quite different plant with yellow flowers. 



Description. — A low, much-branched glabrous evergreen perennial. Main 

 roots long, fleshy, resembling radishes. Stem in lower part procumbent and 



Fig. 94. — S. moranense H. B. & K. 



rooting, thin, red, bare and smooth save for leaf scars j branches many, spreading, 

 leafy. Leaves crowded, triangular, sessile, rounded below, tip blunt, about ^ inch 

 long by -^ inch broad, nearly as thick as broad, glabrous, green, set at right 

 angles to the stem. Inflorescence small, terminal, of about 2 short branches, 

 each bearing several sessile flowers. Buds ovate-oblong, blunt. Flowers 

 I inch across. Sepals separate to base. Unear-lanceolate, blunt, fleshy, slightly 

 spurred. Petals mde-spreading, thrice the sepals, lanceolate, blunt, slightly 

 apiculate, white, tinged red on back. Stamens slightly shorter than petals. 



