SPECIES OF CRASSULA FROM SOUTH AFRICA. 558 
Described from living specimens which were received without 
flowers in May 1895, and flowered in Grahamstown, J anuary 1896. 
Named in honour of its discoverer, Mr. T. R. Sim, F.L.S. 
Hab. “ Stormberg.” 
While the older leaves of this plant are perfectly glabrous, the 
upper part of the younger ones are covered with granular wax 
arranged in a reticulate manner (as in Echeveria globosa). In 
dry weather the leaves close together firmly, so that only their 
upper waxy part is exposed. In this way the young shoots are 
protected against excessive transpiration. In damp weather the 
leaves expand again. This plant grows somewhat after the 
manner of the Seda gemina, D. Koch *. The young shoots grow 
straight up to a height of between 3 and 5 em. They then 
become top-heavy and fall down to the ground. Soon afterwards 
they root at the lower side and produce new shoots in the axils 
of those leaves which are pointing in an upward direction. Under 
favourable circumstances the same process is repeated by the 
new shoots, and thus large tufts may be formed. 
Crassula Simiana is nearly allied to C. dasyphylla, Harv., 
which, however, has filiform pedicels and subsessile stigmata; 
whereas in the former the flowers are subsessile and a distinct 
style is present. 
CnassuLA (Š Trmuma) MARLOTHII, Schénland, n. sp.—An- 
nua(?) pumila ; folia rosulata, omnia radicalia 10-15 mm. longa 
laminis obovatis vel orbicularibus in petiolum attenuatis; flores 
pentameri stellati ex axillis foliorum solitarii vel in cymis 
paucifloris, pedicelli tenuissimi 25-40 mm. longi, sepala ovata 
connata, petala rubra sublibera ovato - lanceolata acuminata, 
filamenta filiformia, anthere ovate, carpella quatuor-ovulata, 
styli breves subulati, squams minute truncate. 
Described from two dried specimens in Herb. Albany Museum. 
Named in honour of its discoverer, Dr. Rudolf Marloth of Cape- 
town. 
Hab. “In saxosis umbrosis montis ‘Matroos, prope Wor- 
cester,” alt. 4500 ped. Leg. Dr. R. Marloth (uo. 2202), Dec. 
1895. 
In habit this species reminds one of some species of T;llea, 
Linn., its pentamerous flowers, combined with the occurrence of 
four ovules in each ovary, would place it amongst the genus 
* See Engler und Prantl, * Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien,’ iii. 2te Abt. p. 30. 
