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Crassula falcata. Sickle-leaved 

 Crassula. 



Class and Order. 



Pentandria Pentagynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Squamce 5, nectariferae ad 

 basin germinis. Caps. 5. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Crassula falcata ; foliis oblongis falcatis glaucis obtusis basi 



connatis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 191. 

 Crassula obliqua. Bot. Repos. 414. 

 Crassula retroflexa. Meerb. ic.fasc. 2. p. 16. 

 Rochea falcata. Plant. Grass. 103. 

 Larochea falcata. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 337. 



A figure of this plant having been given by Mr. Andrews, 

 in the Botanist's Repository, erroneously for Crassula 

 obliqua, it is generally known by that name in our nurseries. 



The eminent botanist M. Decandolle, in his Plantes 

 grasses, has separated this species and Crassula coccinca 

 from the rest of the genus, and erected them into a new 

 genus under the name of Rochea, altered in Persoon's 

 synopsis to Larochea, being dedicated to the memory of 

 M. De La Roche, author of a monograph on Ixia and Gla- 

 diolus. This genus has been adopted by Mr. Haworth, 

 who has doubtingly added to it three other species, but 

 as all of them, as far as appears by the character, differ in 

 nothing from Crassula but in the cohesion of the petals at 

 their base, and the genus is not taken up in the last edition 

 of the Hortus Kewensis, we have judged it better to retain 

 the name given it in the last-mentioned work. 



In our specimen the nectariferous scales were quite 

 obsolete, but as these make part of the character of the genus 

 Larochea, the want of them is probably not general. 



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