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spreading, lanceolate, acute, twice the sepals, with a short mucro behind the tip. 
Stamens slightly shorter than the petals, spreading, filaments greenish, anthers 
reddish-yellow, the epipetalous ones attached ^ way up to the petals. Scales 
small, quadrate, entire, greenish, translucent. Carpels erect at first, later 
spreading, greenish-yellow, equalling or shorter than the stamens, slender, com- 
pressed laterally ; styles long, slender, erect, capitellate. 
Flowers late July and early August, after S. kamtschaticum and 
before 5. hybridum. Hardy. 
The stems begin their axillary branching as early as May, whereas 
in kamtschaticum, if branches are produced, they mostly jirise sub- 
sequent to the primary flowering in June, and proceed from the lower, 
not the upper, leaf-axils. In strong plants of S. floriferum the axillary 
branches may be as many as twenty in number ; in less strong plants 
Fig. 64. — Immature shoot of S. floriferum. x i. 
they are often sub-umbellate, being grouped round the apex of the 
stem ; in weak plants they may be absent (fig. 64). The flowers have 
the size and rather greenish-yellow colour of those of hybridum, not 
the golden-yellow and large size of kamtschaticum. The plant comes 
true from seed. 
The peculiar branching of the stem which is characteristic of this 
species is also found, to a less extent, in 5. Yabeanum Makino, a 
recently published Japanese species of the Aizoon section, not in 
cultivation, which is described as having "stems often provided with 
a few sterile branches at the middle portion." {Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 17, 10.) 
Habitat. — N.E. China. Seed was sent by Mr. Liardet from Wei- 
hai-Wei in 191 1, to Kew, where the plant has been grown since without 
a name. 
To this species may be referred a curious specimen in the British 
Museum. It is labelled " Chifu. aest. 1872 (F. B. Forbes)," and is 
