330 
39. CRASSTTLACEiE. 
2- lobed), hypog. glands. (See also Haw. Syn. 166 and Rev. 
p. 66.) From this, however, S. tortuosum DC. Prodr. iii. 411 
and PI. Grass, t. 156 slightly differs, approaching somewhat 
more to S. dumosum, by the larger more loosely tufted 1. “ 11- 
12 lin. longa, 4-5 lata and Aichryson tortuosum WB. i. 184, 
with digitato-fimbriate or fimbriately subbilobed hypog. scales 
or glands (“ squamis digitato-fimbriatis aut subbilobis, lobis 
fimbriatis ”), exactly as in S. dumosum , seems to approach still 
nearer the Mad. pi. ; though, like the pi. of Curtis and DC., 
still differing entirely in habit, viz. u caule fruticoso decumbente 
contorto ” WB. 1. c. 
3. S. VILLOSUM Ait. 
Herb. ann. dwarfish thickly villous-pubcscent glandular-viscid 
hoary, st. ascending then erect, bushy and corymbose at top; 
1. distinctly and abruptly stalked broadly rhomboidal obtuse, shortly 
wedgeshaped or subcorclate at the base, quite entire flat pale hoary- 
gr. densely villous, at first forming a loose fiat rosette, afterwards 
scattered and caducous ; fi. rather large and numerous in few-ficl. 
short crowded once-forked cymes forming a close leafy bushy co- 
rymbose broad panicle; pedic. cal. br. and fl.-l. villous; pet. 
6-9 mostly 8 lanceolate 2-3 times the length of sep. ; hypog. 
glands distinctlv stalked subclavate or narrowly palmate mostly 
3- 5-fid subbilobed with a narrow-oblong stalk. — Sol.! in BII. ; 
Ait. ! H. K. (ed. 1) ii. 148 ; BM. t. 1809 ; Buch ! 197. no. 365 ; 
Spr. ii. 469 (not Haw. or Lindl.). S. stellatum Sm. Tr. Linn. 
Soc. i. 251 ; Ilaw. Syn. 166, Rev. 66; DC. iii. 412. — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, c.; PS. reg. 3, J; GD. reg. 2, r. Dry rocks 
and walls especially in the north, and in all the principal ravines, 
e. g. Rib. de S ta Luzia, Rib. Frio, dos Cayados, <&c. In P t0 S t0 
on N. side of Pico d’Anna Ferreira. Apr. -July. — A small low 
bushy dwarf herb, pi., mostly 3 or 4, rarely 6 or 8 in. high, 
coming into fl. as S. dumosum is going out, hoary-greyish or 
often reddish and all over villous-hairy, the hairs rather long 
and spreading whitish more or less glutinous or glandular. St. 
single almost always strongly curved at the base or ascending, 
then erect, hard, still’, 1-3 lines in diam., round, simple, branched 
corymboselv and bushy upwards, clothed with a few scattered 
soon-falling 1. L. at first, but for a very short time, forming a 
flattish somewhat loose rosette, then scattered on the st. ahd 
panicle, soon falling and leaving the st. naked, hoary dull or 
pale gr., mostly like the whole pi. bright reddish, smaller but 
m shape like those of S. divaricaturn, abruptly rhomboidal with 
rounded angles, 4-10 or 12 lines broad, somewhat shorter in 
length, subeordately and abruptly cuneate at the base, with the 
petiole distinct 2-12 or 15 lines long. Fl. with rather long and 
