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CRASSULA CENTAUROIDES. CENTAURY- 
FLOWERED CRASSULA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
PeENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Chara&er. 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Squame 5 neCtarifere ad bafin ger- 
minis. Cap/. 5. * 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
CRASSULA centauroides ; caule herbaceo dichotomo, foliis fef- 
filibus oblongo-ovatis cordatis planis, pedunculis axillaribus 
unifloris. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 392.—ed. alt. 2. p. 194. Willd. 
Sp. Pl. 1. 1555. Haworth Succul. 57. 
CRASSULA centauroides; caule herbaceo dichotomo, foliis - 
cordatis feffilibus, pedunculis unifloris. Sp. Pl. 404. Amen. 
Acad, 6. p. 85. (caule brachiato. Mantiff2 361.) Sy/i. Veg. 
ed. 14. p. 305. Reich. Sp. Pl. 1. 772. 
SEDOIDES africana annua centauroides. Herm. Parad. 169. 
Descr. Root annual or biennial. Stems proftrate, {mooth, 
of a pale red colour, pellucid on the furface, opake at the 
centre, branched : Jower branches going off at right angles, or 
brachiate : upper ones dichotomous. Leaves oppofite, ovate, 
flat, ftem-embracing, margin red, fomewhat denticulate, from a 
row of excavated dots on the under fide. Peduncles axillary, 
folitary, one-flowered, ere& at firft, but refle€&ted after the 
flowering is over. Calyx perfiftent, five-cleft: /egments acute. 
Corolla five-petalled, when firft expanded not unlike that 
of the leffer Centaury: pefals ovate-acuminate, bright crimfon 
at the point fhaded off to white at the bafe. Filaments green, 
inferted into the receptacle below the germen, not into the 
claws of the petals, with which they alternate. Anibers yellow. 
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