Tas. 6194, 
CRASSULA Botvst. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord, CRASsULACEZ. 
Genus Crassus, Linn, (Benth. and Hook., f. Gen. Pl., v. i., p. 657). 
CrassuLA (Squamulose) Bolusii; parvula, diffuse ramosa, ramis gracilibus 
laxe foliosis adscendentibus teretibus sparse patentibus pilosis'apice floriferis, 
foliis 1 poll. longis patulis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis marginibus 
ciliatis ceterum glaberrimis radicalibus pollicaribus lineari-spathulatis 
omnibus carnosis dorso semiteretibus facie conyexis viridibus nigro maculatis 
v. fasicatis, floribus corymbosis 4 unc. diameter. breviter pedicillatis, calycis 
segmentis ovatis acutis ciliatis, petalis oblongis subacutis dorso infra apicem 
mucronulatis carneis, glandulis hypogynis brevibus emarginatis, carpsllis 
ovoideo-lanceolatis in stylos breves attenuatis, stigmatibus puactiformibus. 
A very pretty little Cape succulent, apparently not in- 
cluded in Harvey and Sonder’s Cape Flora. It was dis- 
covered by Mr. H. Bolus, near Graafreinet, who sent both 
living and dried specimens to Kew, As a species it is closely 
allied to C. Cooperi (Regel Gartenfl., 1874, p. 36, t. 786), a 
widely distributed Cape species, but differs in the less — 
Straggling habit, much longer and narrower radical leaves, 
and in the dark blotches on the foliage. 
The specimen here figured is from plants sent to Kew by 
Mr. Bolus in 1874, which flowered in the Succulent House in 
July of the present year. 
Descr. A small, bright green, tufted, perennial herb. 
Stems ascending, three to five inches high, slender, leafy at 
the base, sparingly so higher up, very sparsely clothed 
with spreading short white hairs. Leaves fleshy, pale green, 
with dark, almost black blotches, one-third to one-half inch 
long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, the lowest often one 
inch long, and more or less spathulately oblanceolate, upper 
surface convex, the lower almost semiterete, margin with a 
row of white rather recurved cilia, otherwise perfectly 
glabrous. Flowers very small, one-sixth inch diameter, in 
terminal corymbose cymes, very shortly pedicelled. Calyz- 
segments ovate, acute, red, ciliate. Petals twice as long, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, with a dorsal mucro near the top, pale 
