Crassula. | L. CRASSULACEE (BRITTEN). 389 
Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ©. puberula, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. (name 
only). 
Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountains, 6000-10,000 ft., Mann! 
Wile Land, Mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper! Dillon! Roth! Parkyns! Salt! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Pungo Andongo, and Benguela, Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Very variable in size. ©. Mannii is a short stout form, with smaller flowers than 
the type. C. puberula is a short slender form with narrow leaves, but does not appear 
specifically distinct. 
2. ©. globularioides, Britten. Rhizome thick, creeping, emitting 
short leafy shoots barren or bearing peduncles; barren shoots termi- 
nating in a rosette of leaves. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, sometimes 
almost orbicular, } in. long or rather more, on flowering shoots oppo- 
site, connate, internodes scarcely perceptible; fleshy, glabrous, obtuse, 
closely fringed with white membranous deflexed teeth. Scape papil- 
lose, simple, 2-3 in. high, with two pairs of connate, lanceolate, obtuse 
or subacute bracts, fringed like the ey one pair near the base, the 
other shortly below the inflorescence. Flowers in compact, rounded, 
terminal cymes, or in subdense forking panicles, very shortly pedicel- 
late. Bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Calyx about 1 line long, fringed 
like the leaves, segments lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla twice as long as 
the calyx, petals free or scarcely united at the base, thick, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, obtuse, ascending, slightly spreading. Carpels dark, ovate, 
acuminate. Squamule minute. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesia, Mount Chiradzura, Dr. Meller! 
3. C. sediformis, Schweinf. Flora Athiop. 80. ‘‘ Herbaceous, stem 
3-2 in. high, bialate ; leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, 4—5 millimetres 
long; calyx-segments triangular, rather obtuse ; petals broadly ovate, 
obtuse, white or blue at the base, a little longer than the sepals. 
Habit of Sedum ceruleum, Vahl.—Crassularia sediformis, Hochst. in 
Buchinger’s Verzeichniss, No. 126.” 
Wile Land. Mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper. 
Description from Schweinfurth. 
3. BRYOPHYLLUM, Salisb.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 658. 
Calyx inflated, cylindrical or tetragonous, shortly 4-fid, valvate. 
Corolla urceolate or subcampanulate, the limb shortly 4-fid, spreading. 
Stamens 8, in two rows, inserted in the middle of the corolla-tube ; 
filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, shortly exserted. Scales free or ad- 
nate to the carpels. Carpels 4, free, or connate at the base, elongate, nar- 
rowed into elongated, connivent, exserted styles,with capitellate stigmas ; 
ovules in each carpel numerous. Follicles 4, many-seeded.—Tall, stout, 
fleshy herbs, shrubby at the base. Leaves opposite, petiolate, simple 
or unequally pinnate, crenate. Flowers rather large, nodding, in 
many-flowered paniculate cymes, greenish-white or red; branches of 
the panicle opposite. 
