Tas. 4607. 
GRAMMANTHES cHLORAFLORA. 
Yellowwort-flowered Grammanthes. 
Nat. Ord. CrassULACEZ.—PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, erectus. Corolla gamopetala, tubo 
calycis longitudine, lobis 5 rarius 6 ovalibus expansis. Stamina 5-6 lobis alterna, 
tubo inserta et inclusa. Syuame nulle. Carpella 5.—Herbee annue, oppo- 
sitifolie. Folia ovato-oblonga, remota, plana, sessilia, Flores cymoso-corymbosi. 
De Cand. 
Grammantuss chloreflora ; foliis ovato-oblongis. 
‘Grammantues chloreflora. Haw. Revis. p. 18 (sub. nom. gen. Vauanthis). De 
Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 392. 
GRAMMANTHEs gentianoides ? De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 393. 
CrassvuLa gentianoides? Lam. Dict. v. 2. p. 175. 
Crassuxa retroflexa. Thunb. Cap. p. 282. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 194. 
Crassuza dichotoma. Linn. Amen. v. 6. p. 86. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 1. 
p. 392. 
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Grammanthes, a genus properly separated from Crassula, 1s 80 
named from its having the appearance of a letter (V inverted) in- 
scribed upon the base of the segments of the corolla. ‘Two species 
are described by De Candolle, but with great doubts as to their 
being really distinct. We have combined them: for the form 
of the leaf, at any rate, seems to afford no character ; and there 
is no reason to think the flowers are blue in the G. gentianoides, 
as described by Lamarck. Ecklon and Zeyher have given three 
additional species. 
Our present plant is certainly a very pretty thing, a native of 
the Cape of Good Hope, and, though annual, remaining 10 beauty 
a considerable length of time, and may be safely treated as a 
hardy annual. Planted out in tufts or patches, in the early 
summer, it is seen covered with flowers of two colours: when 
they first expand they are pure yellow, with a blood-coloured V, 
gradually becoming deep tawny, OF almost wholly blood-colour, 
with a yellow eye. 
OCTOBER IsT, 1851. 
