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4 or 5) lines broad, of a peculiar pale glaucescent gr. turning as 
tlie fi. advance red or purple, and presently falling off from 
both st. and lower parts of the branches. Inflorescence usually 
more like that of Sedum nudum Ait. than that of S. divaricatum y 
the fl. -branches erect forked leafy forming a loose not always 
close level-topped or corymbose panicle, the cymes distinct and 
terminal very rarely more than once-forked, the forks short 4- 
or 5- to 9- or 10-fid. with the fl. not crowded, larger and of a 
darker or fuller golden-y. than in S. divoricatum , but smaller 
though darker y. also than in S. vittosum : the whole panicle 
glandulose-puberulous in all its parts. Pedicels 2-3 or 4 lines 
long. Sep. not quite 1 line or 2 millim. long, narrow-lanceolate, 
dark gr., united into a cup-shaped base in depth equalling their 
length. Fl. 4-G lines in diam., mostly 5. Pet. mostly 7 some- 
times 6 or 8, lanceolate finely acute stellatelv spreading or re- 
flexed, 2 lines or 4-5 millim. long, 2 millim. broad, bright 
golden-y., the midrib outside reddish. Hypog. glands golden-y. 
or deep orange shortly and broadly stalked flattened subcuneato- 
palmate as broad as long obscurely and irregularly subbilobed, 
each lobe unequally 2-4- or 5-fid. Stam. 12-16 a little shorter 
than the pet. Styles and ov. as many as and colour of the pet. 
smooth. 
In drying this pi. stains the paper with bright greenish-violet 
and red or purple spots. My first acquaintance with it is due 
to Sr. J. M. Moniz, who in March 1861 showed me flowering 
examples of it in his garden which had been brought to him 
from Magdalena by a countryman. Till the present spring 
(1863), when I discovered its exact locality, it had remained 
imperfectly characterized. In season it is considerably earlier 
than the other Mad. Semperviva, losing its 1. and passing out of 
fl. when S. villosum Ait. in its neighbourhood, at a lower eleva- 
tion, is first coming in. And though assuredly not more than 
ann. and hapaxanthous normally in Mad., it has so much of a 
suffruticulose form or habit, that it might perhaps in cultivation 
or other favourable circumstances become suflrutescent or at 
least, like its near ally S. divaricatum Ait., subperennial. 
The Canarian S. tortuosum Ait. (PM. t. 296), if correctly 
figured and described, must be very distinct from S. dumosum 
by its decidedly per. woody or frutescent habit, short thick Sedi- 
form or gibbous 1. (by the fig. 3-4 lines long X 2-3 broad) crowded 
in tufts at the ends of the naked u tortuous ” widely divaricate 
or declining branches, and simply “bilobed,” not palmately 
fimbriate (4-10- or many-cleft and only obscurely or irregularly 
