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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. — 5. 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, linear-lanceolate, blunt, fleshy, slightly 
spurred. Petals wide-spreading, thrice the sepals, lanceolate, blunt, slightly 
apiculate, white, tinged red on back. Stamens slightly shorter than petals. 
