Tan. 7665. 7 
CRASSULA pyraMipALis. 
Native of the Oape of Good Hope. 
Nat. Ord. CrassuLAcEa. 
Genus Orassuna, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 657.) 
Crassuta (Pyramidella) pyramidalis; nana, caulibus 2-8 pollicaribus foliis 
omnino velatis cum foliis tetragonis simplicibus vel ramulis brevissi- 
mis instructis, foliis quadrifariam imbricatis horizontalibus arctissime 
imbricatis carnosulis triangulari-ovatis basi subcordatis liberis semi- 
am plexicaulibus marginibus puberulis, floribus pentameris, in capitula 
globosa terminalia $-1 poll. diam. confertis albis pentameris, sepalis 
parvis anguste spathulatis marginibus ciliatis, corolle glaberrime 
tubo ovoideo sepalis duplo longiore, lobis tubo longioribus linearibus 
obtusis recurvis, filamentis brevibus, antheris longiusculis ovato-oblongis, 
squamulis e stipite gracili sursum dilatatis truncatis rubro-aurantiacis, 
carpellis ovoideis, stylis brevibus. 
C. pyramidalis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 189. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 287, et in Nov. Act. 
Nat. Cur. vol. vi. p. 336, t. 5b. DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 388. Harv. et 
Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. tii. p. 338. Burbidge in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 289, 
fig. 108, et 1885, vol. i. p. 545, fig. 101 (icon. iterat.). 
C. quadrangula, Hndi. ex Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 253. 
Tetraphyle pyramidalis & quadrangula, Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum, p. 292, 293. 
The plant here figured is that known in gardens as 
Crassula pyramidalis, Linn. f. and of Thunberg’s ‘ Flora 
Capensis,”’ but it differs from the description of these 
authors in the leaves being much larger than one line 
long, and not being connate, as also in the heads of 
flowers being sometimes upwards of an inch across, and © 
not merely “ larger than a pea.” It is possible that in its 
native state the plant never assumes the size which it does 
under cultivation, but this small size would not account 
for the leaves being connate. It must be left to Cape 
botanists to settle the question by a visit to the spot where 
Thunberg discovered C. pyramidalis, namely, near Olifant’s 
River, by the thermal springs, ‘‘(Juxta flum. Olyfant’s 
orientalem, prope thermas,” fl. Octob.). Other habitats 
given by Harvey in the “ Flora Capensis’’ are Karroo, 
between Uitenhage and Graaf Reynet; Kleplaat river; 
Juty Ist, 1899. 
