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§ 3. JEonium Webb. Slir. branched per. L. in las terminal rosettes. 
FI. y. or pale gr. Hypog. glands simple transversely oblong 
notched or toothed. 
5. S. GtLUtin o sum Ait. Ensaido or Ensaydo. 
Smooth suffruticose, branches few decumbent straggling naked 
downwards, viscid as if varnished ; 1. terminal loosely aggregate 
spathulate or rhomboidally wedgeshaped with a short abrupt 
point, clammy shining, indistinctly cartilaginously ciliate ; fl. in 
remote forked spreading cymes disposed in a terminal large loose 
straggling leafy panicle with long distant spreading or declining 
branches ; pet. 8-11 mostly 9 or 10 lanceolate ; hypog. scales 
short broad subbilobed and notched or eroso-crenulate. — Sol. ! 
in BH. ; Ait. ! H. K. (ed. 1) ii. 147 ; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iv. 
32. t. 464; Haw. Svn. 165; BM. t. 1963; Buch! 197. no. 367; 
DC. iii. 411; Bot. Reg. t. 278; Tr. Linn. Soc. 16. pp. 396-398. 
S. canariense Sol. ! in BH. a prima manu ; Buch ! 197. no. 364 
(not Linn.). — Slir. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc. Seacliffs and per- 
pendicular dry rocks in ravines, &c. everywhere up to a height 
of 5000 feet. June-Sept. — A per. herbaceous pi. becoming 
shrubby, with few remote thick stout decumbent or ascending 
straggling reddish or chestnut-col <1 branches 1-2 ft. long, mi- 
nutely puberulous and leafy towards the ends, naked and woody 
downwards and especially in summer viscid as if varnished. L. 
smooth in loose crowded terminal tufts, 1^-4^ in. long and 1-2 in. 
broad towards the end, broadly spathulate and rounded upwards 
with an abrupt short more or less recurved point, attenuated 
downwards, Hat but thick and fleshy, bright yellowish full gr., 
viscid and shining but less so than the younger branches ; the 
cilia at their edges short thickish and irregular or inconspicuous. 
Panicle from the centre of the terminal tufts of 1., about a foot 
long, sparingly and remotely branched, with a single deciduous 
1. at each division, its branches extremely glutinous as if coated 
with fresh moist varnish, shining and brightly tinged with red 
or purple, at first compact, but soon becoming loose and strag- 
gling with few remote horizontal or drooping branches. FI. orange 
or golden-y. Sep. as many as pet. united halfway up into a 
cyathiform or cup-like base, their segm. short broadly triangu- 
lar or half-ovate fleshy. Pet. mostly 9 or 10 lanceolate acute 
6 mill, long, 2 broad, bright y. internally, with mostly a bright 
red or ruddy streak at the back, which disappears on immer- 
sion in hot water. Stam. about as long as pet. Hypog. scales 
broader than high subbilobed with a single faint notch or mi- 
nutely and irregularly toothed or crenulate. 
The bruised 1. and juice are esteemed efficacious in outward 
or internal injuries from bruises, falls, & c. But a more import- 
ant use of the pi. consists in its employment by the fishermen 
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