Bulliarda.] _ CRASSULACEH (Harv.) 329 
squarrose, the upper spathulate ; petals obovate, tapering at base. Hel. reflerum, 
EL. § Z. 1 1846. Zey./ 2510, 2513. Drege, 9540. 
Var, 5. filiformis; erect or decumbent ; all the leaves linear or linear-oblong. 
Bulliarda filiformis, H. § Z. 1850. B. capensis, FE. M. B. elatinoides, E. § Z. 
1849. Zey./ 634. Drege 6883. 
Has. In marshy places, ponds and ing streams throughout the colony. 
(Herb. Sd., D., Hk., Bth. 2 eee ee : 
Varying with the ‘depth of water and its stillness or fluency. The floating leaves 
are usually obovate, the submerged linear, and when growing in streams very long 
and narrow. Stems 3 inches to 3 feet in length, simple or very remotely branched. 
Leaves from 2 lines to upwards of an inch long, and from 4 line to 2 lines wide. 
Flowers 1 line wide, white or pale rosy ; the anthers red or dark. Petals very ob- 
tuse, concave. Carpels obovate. 
2. H. inane (E. & Z.! 1847); glabrous; stem terete, swollen 
(hollow ?), subsimple, with distant internodes ; leaves shorter than the 
internodes, connate, ovate, ovato-lanceolate, lanceolate or linear, obtuse 
or acute, flat; cymules shortly pedunculate ; ; axillary and terminal, 
several flowered ; flowers pedicellate ; calyx bluntly 4-lobed, half as 
jong as the ovate petals ; stamens shorter than the petals. Crassula 
inanis, Thunb. p. 282, non EH. Mey.! Hel. inane, EB. & Z.! 1847. 
Drege! 6879. Zey! 2509. 
Has. In marshes and ditches near the Zwartkops R., Uit., 2. ¢ Z./ Klein- 
Drackenstein, near the Berg River ; and on the Zuureberg, Drege / Grahamstown, 
Genl. Bolton! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) 
Stems 6-12 inches long or more, according to the wetness or depth of the marsh, 
1-2 lines in diameter, pale or strawcolour, weak. Internodes 1-2 inches apart. 
Leaves very variable in length and breadth, but always broader at base than apex, 
3 lines to 14 inch long. Cymules on peduncles 2~3 lines long, either corymbulose or 
racemulose. There is often, also, from the same axil as the cymule a 1-flowered, 
setaceous peduncle. Flowers 1-1} line in diameter, white. Petals very blunt, one 
nerved, obovate or spathulate. Carpel oblong, one seeded. Squama cuneate, 
truncate. Filaments slender ; anthers subrotund. 
II. BULLIARDA, DC. 
Calyx 4-lobed or 4—parted. Petals 4, ovate or lanceolate, spreading. 
Stamens 4, shorter than the petals. Sqwame linear or cuneate. Car- 
pels 43; ovules numerous ; style short ; follicles many-seeded. DC. 
Prod. 3 p. 382. 
Small, herbaceous plants, mostly annuals, growing in moist places. Stems di- 
trichotomous. “Leaves opposite, linear or obovate. Flowers axillary or in terminal 
cymes, pedingaes small, white. Name inhonour of M. Bulliard, a French botanist, 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
Leaves linear or subulate, acute or subacute : 
Calyx short, with very blunt and shallow lobes ... ... (1) Vaillantii. 
Calyx as long as petals, with lanceolate, acute lobes ... (2) beep ever 2 
Leaves obovate, spathulate or flabelliform, very blunt : 
Calyx-segments with sharp in ye ee bli Sr. 
Gatys ches with rounded and wide interspaces ‘ (4) alpina, © 
Leaves ovato-lanceolate, acute ; sepals and petals lanceolate (5) Dregei. 
1, B, Vaillantii (DC. Pl. Grass, t. 74) ; erect or decumbent, 
tomous ; leaves linear or subulate, subacute, patent ; pedicels ) 
or exceeding the leaves ; calyx half as long as the ovate pt ae 
very blunt and shallow lobes. = 7 3 > ee =" 7 ad ak & 
