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easUy 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 

 foots^ong. fleshy. resembUng radishes. SUtn in lower part procumbent and 



Fig. 94- — S. moranense H. B. & K. 



Lting. thin, red, bare and smooth s-e for leaf scars ;branch^^^^^^ 

 leafy. Leaves crowded, triangular, sessile, rounded below tip blunt, aoo j 

 long by ,V inch broad nearly as t^":^., ^,,^^^^'^3:, ^^^1^^^^^^^ branches, 



angles to the stem. Inflorescence small, ^«™^°J*;^°;.J^io„g. blunt. Flowers 

 each bearing several sessile flowers. ..^"J.i^^i^^^^X blunt, fleshy, slightly 

 I inch across. Sepals separate to base, 'V^ „fL,„ {^n^eolate blunt, slightly 

 Ipurred. Petals wide-spreading, thnce ^JJ^^P/^ ijg^Ty sbort^^^ petals', 



apiculate, white, tinged red on back, btamens siigQwy d 



