Stone-crop Family 185 



2. H. xnulticaulis Rose. Perennial by an oblong cprm, 2-3 

 cm. long; stems 2-5, rather stout, 1-1.5 cm. high, variegated, 

 glabrous, not at all glaucous; basal leaves 3-4 cm. long, terete, 

 acute; stem leaves 1-2.5 cm. long, ovate-oblong, acute or acumi- 

 nate, turgid or somewhat flattened; inflorescence of several 

 secund, many-flowered racemes; flowers subsessile; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, obtuse; flower-buds pinkish, obtuse; corolla-lobes widely 

 spreading above the middle, pale yellow, tinged with red, 7-8 

 mm. long, slightly united at base. 



Described from specimens collected by Dr. Hasse on sterile clay bluffs 

 near Santa Monica. 



3. STYLOPHYLLUM Britton & Rose. 



Perennials with more or less branched rootstocks ; 

 basal leaves linear elongated or flattened but always nar- 

 row, sometimes abruptly widened below into a broad clasp- 

 ing base ; flowering stems with long sessile leaves not 

 clasping at base. Calyx 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, equal and 

 small. Corolla campanulate, not angled, white, red or 

 yellowish, its lobes broad, thin and spreading, united below 

 into a tube. Stamens 10, borne on the corolla-tube. Car- 

 pels 5, united below, generally spreading. 



1. S. insulare Rose. Stems very thick and woody, 6-8 cm. 

 in diameter, crowned by a rosette of spreading leaves, the old 

 leaves somewhat persistent; leaves 10-15 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. 

 broad above the base, 2 cm. broad at base, fleshy, much flattened 

 except toward the apex, acute, more or less glaucous, especially 

 when young; flowering branch stout, purplish, 3-4 dm. long; 

 inflorescence paniculately branched; primary branches short, 

 nearly equal, 2-3-dichotomous, the ultimate branches short and 

 few-flowered; calyx 3 mm. long, its lobes twice as long as the 

 tube, ovate, acute; corolla 7 mm. long, reddish, somewhat cam- 

 panulate, its tube about the length of the carpels ; carpels united 

 at base, widely spreading. 



Described from specimens collected on Catalina Island by Blanche Trask. 



2. S. Hassei Rose. Caudex elongated, sometimes about 3 dm. 

 long, 2-3 cm. in diameter, somewhat branching, covered with 

 the old persistent leaves, crowned with a dense erect rosette; 



