TAB, 6255. 
COTYLEDON rererrrorta. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. CRASSULACEZ. 
Genus CoTYLEDON, Linn, ; (Benth. et Hook. f., Gen. Plant., vol. i., p. 659). 
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CotyLEDON (Paniculate)' teretifolia; glanduloso-pubescens v. tomentosa, caule 
robusto ascendente, foliis sessilibus hexastiche oppositis 2-5-pollicaribus 
subcylindraceis crasse carnosis apicibus subspathulato-rotundatis et dis- 
coloribus, pedunculo crasso erecto nudo y. foliis paucis oppositis alternisve 
instructo, cyma effusa ramis patentibus, calycis lobis triangulari-ovatis, 
corollz auree tubo brevi, lobis elongatis lineari-oblongis acutis patenti- 
recurvis, filamentis conniventibus exsertis, glandulis hypogynis parvis, car- 
pellis in stylos elongatos apice patentes attenuatis, stigmatibus capitellatis. 
CrassuLa teretifolia, Thunb. Prod. Fl. Cap., p.83; DC. Prod., vol. iii., p. 397 ; 
Harv, et Sond, Fl, Cap., vol. ii., p. 373. 
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The Cape Crassulacee, once the favourites of the green- 
house, have, with the exception of some gaudy Crassulas, 
long gone out of fashion amongst cultivators, or are relegated 
to the specialist or botanist. Nevertheless, they comprise a 
series of as beautiful and easily cultivated plants as any group 
ofthe vegetable kingdom, and that their day will dawn again 
is certain. Already, indeed, the rich collection in the Suc- 
culent House at Kew has many admirers, and, thanks espe- 
cially to this and to the example and liberality of Mr. Wilson 
Saunders, the number of cultivators of this class of plants who — 
regularly correspond with Kew is very considerable. 
The genus Cotyledon, which is represented in England only _ 
by the curious Navel-wort, so common on the walls and rocks of 
the south and west coasts of the British Isles, and in Europe, 
North Africa, and West Asia by a few other species, attains its 
maximum of development in South Africa, where upwards of 
twenty species are known, and from whence not a small 
number have been so imperfectly described that they cannot be 
identified ; for, indeed, it is a genus that can only be studied 
upon living specimens. In South Africa it is chiefly confined 
to the south-western corner of the continent, most of the 
species occurring in the Cape Town district. To this 
June Ist, 1876, 
