Tas. 6417. 
COTYLEDON RAMOSISSIMA. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. CrassuLacegz. 
Genus Corrxepoy, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 659.) 
Corytepon (Paniculate) ramosissima; fruticosa, glaberrima, glaucescens, 
foliosa, ramosissima, caule crasso erecto, ramis ramulisque gob ers paten- 
tibus cylindraceis annulatim cicatricatis, foliis confertis breviter petiolatis 
obovato-orbiculatis subacutis v. breviter cuspidatisconcavis integerrimis dure 
carnosis purpureo-marginatis glauco-viridibus, floribus ad apices ramulorum 
solitariis pedicellatis cernuis sesquipollicaribus, calycis brevis dentibus 
acutis sinubus latis rotundatis, corolla campanulata cylindracea viriscente 
lobis brevibus recurvis pallide sanguineis, filamentis corolle tubo basi 
adnatis antheris exsertis, carpellis gracilibus, ovariis antice planis, basi 
squamis cucullatis adnatis. 
C. ramosissima, Haw. suppl. p. 25; DC. Prodr., vol. iii. p. 396; Harv. §& Sond. 
Fl. Cap., vol. ii. p. 372. 
A native of the interior districts of South Africa, as at 
Uitenhage, George, the Zwartkops river, where it forms a 
bush from one to three feet high, remarkable for its density, 
bushy and leafy habit, and the pale glaucous green of 
the foliage and young parts. It is very closely allied to the 
beautiful C. ordiculata of this Magazine (Tab. 321), differing 
in habit and wanting that snowy glaucous hue of that plant, 
but remarkably similar in form and size of the flower. Though 
referable to the section with panicled flowers in all other 
respects but this, the flowers are in all our specimens, living 
and dried, solitary at the tips of the branchlets. 
Cotyledon ramosissima has been long cultivated at Kew, and 
all trace of its introduction is lost, though this must have 
been since the date of the publication of the second edition 
of the “ Hortus Kewensis,” namely 1811, in which work it 
is not described ; it was, however, discovered soon after that 
date (in 1813) by Burchell, whose specimens are at the Kew 
Herbaries. The Kew plant for which the accompanying 
figure was made was sent by Mr. McGibbon, of the Cape- 
town Botanical Gardens, and flowered in the month of 
September. 
Duscr. A bushy, succulent, much branched, erect shrub, 
MARCH Ist, 1879. 
