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39. CRASSTTLACEiE. 
truly herbaceous (not woody or frutescent) aspect of its st. and 
branches, and acquiring nothing whatever of the peculiar habit 
and appearance of Sedum aizoides DC. PL Grasses t. 4. 
2. S. dumosum Lowe. 
Herb. ann. or subbiennial glandular-pubendous at least up- 
wards ; st. mostly erect from the base , irregularly fork-branched 
and sometimes bushy, rarely corymbose ; 1. attenuately stalked 
spathulate or narrow-obovato-lanceolate obtuse notched at the 
tip, much attenuated at the base into the petiole, concave or slightly 
channeled , quite entire, somewhat thick and fleshy pale subglau- 
cous, before flowering erecto-imbricate not forming a flat disk or 
rosette, afterwards scattered and caducous ; fl. rather large not 
numerous in short distinct once- forked cymes forming a bushy leafy 
fork-branched by no means constantly corymbose or close and 
crowded panicle ; pedic., cal., br. and upper 1. glanduloso-pu- 
berulous ; pet. 6-8, mostly 7, lanceolate rather more than twice 
the length of sep. ; hypog. glands subsessile broadly and shortly 
cuneate-palmate mostly multifid and subbilobed with a very 
short broad stalk. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, rrr. On the side of 
a mountain peak or ridge 1000-1200 ft. above but overlooking 
the sea on the upper road from Magdalena to the Arco, at a 
place on the crest of the ridge between the two, called Os Mo- 
Iedos, amongst heaps or beds of bare loose rocky fragments and 
on walls. March-May. — Habit tree-like but only from 3 or 4 
to 12 or 15 in. high with a regular naked trunk-like st. (1-24 lines 
in diam.) and erectly branched head; normally hapaxanthous 
and only bv chance more than ann. St. and branches erect 
thickish and succulent, robust round firm or hard and stiff* but 
fleshy-looking, naked downwards but scarred and a little rugged 
with the raised marks of the fallen 1., shining dark madder-red 
or reddish-purple, always minutely glanduloso-puberulous up- 
wards and sometimes the same downwards, while young leafy 
all the way up, the 1. falling as the fl. advance. St. mostly 
erect quite from the base, but sometimes a little curved at the 
bottom and rooting from the lower leaf-scars. Whole pi. finely 
glandular-pubescent smoother (sometimes quite smooth) down- 
wards. Foliage altogether finer and 1. narrower and longer 
than in S. divaricatum , neither collected into terminal tufts, nor 
forming a single flat disk or rosette before fl., but loosely im- 
bricated all up the st. from the first, flat but concave above and 
somewhat thick and fleshy, shining and apparentlv smooth, but 
the upper at least, and sometimes the lower also, minutely 
glanduloso-puberulous ; in shape spathulate or narrow-lanceo- 
late with the tip obtuse notched and recurved, gradually at- 
tenuated downwards into the long channeled stalk, with the 
disk slightly concave, from in. long, and 14-2 or 3 (rarely 
