CRASSULACE (Harv.) 327 
3. G. hirsuta (E. Meyer) branches and leaves villous ; leaves subses- 
sile, Zinear-lanceolate, with revolute margins ; flowers longer than the 
petiole ; bracts ovate, smoothish, individed, and not compressed, twice or 
thrice as short as the minutely pubescent nuts. DC. 1. c. 
Has. Mountains in Wupperthal, Drege. (Herb. Sond. D.) 
Very like G@. rosmarinifolia but differs’ by, the yellowish appearance and the 
adpressed hairs. Branchlets often very short. Leaves 3 lines long, } line wide ; 
petiole very short, hispid. Flowers not seen. Fruit compressed, about 14 line 
wide, 1 line long and thick, very thinly pubescent on the whole surface. 
Src. II. Strobilocarpus. Klotzsh,1.c. p. 380. DC. 1. c. Ophira Lam. ill. s. 
293. non Burm. Many hard nuts, united into a subglobose syncarpium, included 
at the base by 2 short foliaceous bracts. Flowers externally pubescent. 
4, G. stricta (DC. 1. c.) branches quadrangular and striate, adpressed- 
hairy ; leaves petiolate, linear-lanceolate, with revolute margins, glab- 
rous but tuberculate above, silky-pubescent beneath, ; the lower ones 
often much larger, ovate-lanceolate ; syncarpium 15-20-flowered, 
ovoid, when ripe globose ; nuts covered with the large, adnate, crus- 
taceous disk. Taxus tomentosa. Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 547. Ophira 
stricta Herb. Montin. Zeyh. p. 2650. Lam. 1. c. non. Burm. Strobilo- 
carpus diversifolius Klotzsch. l.c.. G. latifolia Schnizl. Ic. fam. nat fase. 
13, p- 108. 
Has. Mountains in the districts of Cape, Stellenbosch, George and Uitenhage. 
Oct.Jan. (Herb. Holm. Thunb. Dubl. Sond.) 
An erect, greyish shrub ; branches virgate, glabrescent. Leaves 1-14 inches 
long, 14-2 lines wide, with prominent middle-nerve ; the lower sometimes 2 inches 
long, 5-7 lines wide, and evidently 3-nerved ; green and sulcate on the upper, 
yellowish-silky on the under surface ; petiole 1-2 lines long. Flowering syncarpium 
2-24 lines long, yellowish. Anthers exactly as in @. rosmarinifolia. Fruit about 
3 lines long, hard. Lower bracts acuminate, about 1 line long ; inner ones (2-4) 
very minute, fugacious. 
Orper LIII. CRASSULACEZ, D. C. 
(By W. H. Harvey). | 
Flowers perfect, regular. Calya free, usually 5-4-cleft or parted, 
(rarely 3-20 parted), the segments imbricate, persistent. Petals in- 
serted in the bottom of the calyx, as many as its lobes and alternate 
with them, free or more or less cohering in a monopetalous corolla, 
long-persistent, imbricate in estivation. Stamens inserted with the 
petals, free or adnate to them, as many as the petals and alternate, or 
twice as many; filaments subulate ; anthers 2-celled, splitting. Squame 
one at the base of each carpel, sometimes wanting. Carpels as many 
as the petals and opposite them, mostly distinct, each tapering into a 
style. Fruit apocarpous, of several follicles, one or many seeded. 
Seeds with a straight, cylindrical embryo, lying in thin fleshy albumen ; 
radicle next the hilum. — : 
Herbaceous or half-shrubby plants, almost always with succulent stems and 
foliage. Leaves opposite or alternate, fleshy, simple, mostly entire, (rarely ternate 
or imparipinnate), exstipulate. Flowers very generally in cymes, which are spread- 
ing, or dense and subcapitate, sometimes imperfectly umbellate, often corymbose ; 
more in racemes or spikes, or axillary and solitary : often showy, crimson, 
white or yellow, or of some intermediate colour. A large Order, commonly inhabit- 
