Tab. 6401. 



GRAMMANTHES chlorjsflora, var. cjssijl. 

 Native of South Africa. 



Nat. Ord. Crassulace.e. 

 Genus Grammaxthes, DO. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. p. 658). 



Grammantiies elilorceftora ; glaberrima, glauca, diffuse dichotome ramosa, 

 loliis sessilibus ovatis acutis concavis carnosulis, floribus axillaribus et 

 terminalibus pedicellatis. calyce campanulato, tubo angulato, lobis brcvibus 

 ovato-rotundatis obtusis, corollas tubo limbo eequilongo, lobis ovatis, 

 squamulia minimis linearibus, filamentis brevibus, antheris exsertis. 



G. ebloraaflora ; DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 882 ; fiarv. et. Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. ii. 

 p. 331 ; Bot. May. t 4607 ; Moore in Harden. Mag. vol. ii. p. 9, cum la. 



G. caesia, et. G. flava, E. Meyer PI. Drhje. 



G. gentianoides, DC. Prodr. 1. c. 393 ; Planchon in Fl. des Serres, ser. i. v. t. 518 ; 



Morren Belgiq. Hortic. i. p. 447, cum Ic. 

 G. Kebreoides et G. depressa, Eckl. et. Zeyh. PL Afric. Austr. 

 Crarsula gentianoides, Lam. Diet. vol. ii. p. 175. 



C. retroflexa, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 282 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 194. 

 C. dichotoma, Linn. Amcen. Acad. vol. vi. p. 8(3 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. i. vol. i. p. 



392. 

 Vauanthes cliloraBflora, Ilaiv. Rtvis. Sttceul. p. 19. 



Judging from the number of names which have been given 

 to this little plant by collectors in its native country, it ought 

 to be very variable ; though I doubt whether it is more so than 

 other annual Crassulacece. It has already (in 1851) been 

 figured and described in the Magazine (as quoted above), but 

 this figure has been overlooked by every succeeding author, 

 and the form there depicted differs from this in nothing but 

 its less glaucous leaves, larger flower, and (erroneously) in 

 the omission of the hypogynous scales, which, usually though 

 so conspicuous in the order, are so minute (according to Harvr-v 

 even obsolete) in this genus, as to be hardly distinguishable 

 in the dried specimens, whence Ha worth in his description 

 of the geaus (Vauanthes) and De Candolle (in that of Gram- 

 manthes) describe them as absent. Harvey, in the ' Flora 

 Capensis ' describes five varieties, distinguished by the form 



DEI EMBER 1ST, 1878. 



