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39. CRASSULACEJE. 
Ov. large y.-gr. often with minute red specks at their base, pro- 
duced into the short obtuse converging stigmas. 
4. Semper vivtim L. 
Honseleek. 
1. Aichryson Webb. Herb. ann. or bienn., st. branched once- 
flowering. FI. y. Hypog. glands palmatifid or digitato-fim- 
briate. 
1. S. DIVARICATUM (Ait.). 
Herb. ann. or subbiennial mostly altogether smooth and 
shining ; st. ascending then erect stiffly fork-branched bushy 
corymbose ; 1. distinctly and abruptly stalked, broadly 7’homboidal 
or rhomboidally oval or obovate minutely retuse shortly and ab- 
ruptly wedge-shaped at the base jlat not thick or fleshy, dark full 
yr., forming before flowering a somewhat loose flat disk or rosette , 
afterwards scattered and caducous; fl. very numerous rather 
small in repeatedly forked cymes forming a broad close crowded 
fork-branched corymbose panicle ; pet. 5-8 mostly 6 or 7 nar- 
row-lanceolate twice the length of the sep. ; hypog. glands dis- 
tinctly stalked abruptly palmate or cimeate-clavate mostly 4-6- 
or 7 -fid subbilobed or bipartite with a subelongate wedge- 
shaped stalk. — Herb. ann. or partly bien. Mad. on trunks of 
Laurels, rocks, and walls abundantly, chiefly above 2000 ft. — 
Varr. : 
a. polita ; wholly smooth . — Sedum divaricatum Sol. ! in BH. ; 
Ait. ! H. K. (ed. 1) ii. 108; Buch ! 197. no. 360. Anacampseros 
diraricata Haw. Syn. 113. Sempervimin arboreum Sol.! in BH. ; 
Buch ! 197. no. 363 (not Linn.). — Mad. cc. Rib. Frio, de S ta 
Luzia, da Metade, de S. Jorge, da Janella, at S. Vicente, P t0 
da Cruz, &c. June-Aug. — A very variable pi. in size and luxu- 
riance though not at all in aspect or habit, ranging from 1 or 2 
in. to 1 or even 2 ft. in height. St. always horizontal quite at 
the base, then abruptly curved upwards and erect, varying from 
the thickness of a crowquill to that of the little huger, hard and 
stiff but rather fleshy than woody, very smooth even and shining, 
of a dark green or brownish olive colour, soon forking repeatedly 
into a flat-topped leafy head and with the branches and 1. also 
becoming (especially in /3.) dull reddish or dark madder-col. 
L. very smooth and shining dark full gr. nearly as broad as 
long, J-l in. in diam. rhomboidal with rounded angles, abruptly 
and shortly attenuated into distinct stalks, notched mostly at 
the tip, scattered on the st. and branches, soon falling off the 
former and main branches, flat succulent, not very thick or 
fleshy. Fl. very numerous crowded small, 3-4 lines in diam., 
bright-y., in close broad flat-topped forked panicles 2-6 in. in 
