and piftils, is always equal, ufually five, not unfrequently fix, 

 but we have not obferved feven. The whole plant is quite 

 fmooth. 



From the above defcription, it will be feen that this fpecies 

 can hardly be diftingui fried by any permanent characters from 

 Crassula. Yet, except in the number of its parts, and in 

 having the four leaves raifed fome diftance from the ground, 

 with fmaller ones below, and a compound inftead of a fimple 

 umbel, it correfponds fo exactly with Sept as capenfis, under 

 which name indeed we received it, that we cannot but confider 

 it as a fpecies of the fame genus. Perhaps we ought rather to 

 have added both it and Septas capenfis to Crassula; the 

 difference in habit, however, added to the already overgrown 

 fize of that genus, induces us rather to preferve the genus 

 Septas: but we think that it ought to be removed to the fifth 

 clafs. The feptenary number appears to be hardly natural in 

 any plants, and the whole clafs Heptandria might very well be 

 difpenfed with. 



We were favoured with this hitherto undefcribed plant by 

 Mr. Knight, at the Exotic Nurfery, in the King's-Road, 

 Chelfea, who raifed it from feeds received from the Cape of 

 Good-Hope. Flowers in September. Requires the fame 

 treatment as other Cape fucculent plants, 



