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diam. Cymes repeatedly forked racemose with, slender branches. 
Pedic. rather long ( 1^-3 lines) fine and slender. Sep. 7, rarely 
6 or 8, linear-lanceolate somewhat thick and fleshy quite smooth, 
erect and closely connivent after fl. Pet. 7, rarely 6 or 8, mostly 
about twice as long as sep., narrow-lanceolate acute spreading ; 
rather pale golden-y., quite smooth and with a greenish midrib 
at the back ; 1-2 lines long and half as broad. Stam. twice as 
many as pet. and about as long, but unequal, and sometimes 
only 10-12 in number. Ilypog. scales irregularly palmate with 
a more or less broadly wedge-shaped flattened stalk, the head 
mostly bilobed and always cleft irregularly into several (2-8) 
short blunt unequal spreading or divergent branches, not always 
in one plane, resembling a Clavaria in miniature. Styles capitate 
divergent in fi., afterwards erect and more or less convergent. 
P.pubescens; branchlets and 1. of cyme pedic. and cal. minutely 
glandular-puberulous sprinkled with longer wide-spreading 
hairs. — Mad. r. ; Rib. Frio occasionally with a ; Seixal abundant. 
May, June. — In habit foliage and fl. agrees perfectly with a, 
but is almost always of a bright full madder-red coi., coming 
into fl. a little earlier and soon passing over. Hypog. glands 
abruptly capitate-palmate the broadly flattened unequally 4-8- 
fid subbilobed head set on like a hammer or abruptly con- 
tracted into the distinct flattened oblong (not attenuated) stalk. 
This var. or state of the sp. may be easily mistaken for S. du- 
mosum, but is distinguishable by its broad level-topped many- 
fld. crowded panicle, its somewhat smaller fl. and broadly rhom- 
boidal abruptly stalked 1. It abounds at Seixal 200-500 ft. above 
the sea on walls and rocks by the roadsides in May and June, 
becoming gradually smoother and later-flowering every 100 ft. 
of higher elevation till it passes completely into a. 
This is a perfectly distinct sp. apparently from S. aizoides 
Lam., DC. iii. 411 ( Scdum aizoides DC. PI. Grass, t. 4), which 
by the fig. and description is a permanently shrubby pi. with 
the more lanceolate 1. crowded in tufts or rosettes towards the 
ends of the naked woody branches and larger more golden-y. 
(“6-8- ” or by the fig. mostly 9-petalous) fl. in a smallish ra- 
cemose cyme. 
S. divancatum makes its first appearance in Mad. soon after 
the first autumnal rains, continuing through the winter flower- 
less in its discoidal leafy state till May or June ; first beginning 
to flower rather later than S. viUosum Ait. and perishing en- 
tirely in the ensuing autumn after once flowering. Cult, in 
an English greenhouse it is always bi- and sometimes tri-ennial, 
flowering 2 or 3 years in succession : yet retaining all along the 
