Grammanthes. | CRASSULACEZ (Harv.) 331 
the summit, behind the style; styles short, subulate. Sqwame narrow- 
cuneate, truncate. ollicles several seeded. 
A small annual, trichotomously branched, with distant nodes. Leaves opposite, 
obovate or oblong, blunt, fleshy. Cymes corymboso-glomerulate, terminal ; flowers 
small, white. The generic name is compounded of ds, two and axpos, a point ; 
referring to the apparently forked apex of the carpel, by which this little plant is 
known from all others of the Order. 
D. filiformis (Harv.) ; Grammanthes jiliformis, E. § Z. ! 1938. Zey! 
2517, 637. Crassula capillacea, b. EL. Mey. (excl. litt. a.) 
Has. Sandy places, on hill sides near the Tulbagh Waterfall, 2. ¢ Z./ Between 
Capetown and Stellenbosch, Dr. Pappe/ River Zonderende, and near Driefonteyn, 
Zeyher! (Herb. Sd., Hk.) 
Stem 2-3 inches high, trichotomously much branched. Leaves obovate, ovate, or 
oblong, 3-4 lines long. Corymbs dense, but all the flowers distinctly pedicellate 
1-14 lines long, pale yellow. Limb of the petals elliptic-oblong, blunt. Styles very 
short. Habit like that of Crassula glomerata and C. glabra. 
IV. GRAMMANTHES, DC. 
Calyx campanulate, semi-quinque-fid. Corolla gamopetalous, the 
tube equalling the calyx, limb 5-6-lobed, spreading. Stamens 5-6, 
adnate to the corolla-tube, shortly exserted. Carpels 5-6, pluri-ovulate, 
with subulate styles, Squwame very minute or obsolete. ollicles 
many-seeded. DC. Prod. 3. p. 392. 
A small, erect, dichotomously branched glabrous and somewhat glaucous annual, 
with rigid, filiform stems ; opposite, distant, fleshy, oblong, ovate or sublinear 
leaves, and cymoso-paniculate inflorescence. Flowers orange or yellow, or creamy 
white, each petal (in the full coloured varieties) with a darker mark shaped like the 
letter V ; whence the generic name, from ypaupa, a letter and avOos, a flower. 
1. G. gentianoides (DC. Prod. 3. p. 393). Crassula gentianoides, 
Lam. Dict. 2 p. 175. C. retrofleca, Thunb. Cap. p. 282. Pluk. Mant. 
t. 415. f. 6. ©. dichotoma, Iann. Att. Kew. 1. p. 392. 
Var. a. vera; leaves ovate-oblong ; flowers half inch long ; fora: cesar recurved 0 
at the point ; limb of the petals ovate-ollong, subacute, one-thi longer than the 
stamens. E.G Z./ 1934. G. cesia, E. Mey. and G. flava, b., E. Mey. 0 
Var. 8. chlorefiora; leaves oblong or linear ; fl. $~} inch long; calyx-lobes 
recurved at point ; limb of the petals ovate-lanceolate, subacute, twice as long as 
the stamens. £. ¢ Z./ 1934. Zey. / 652. Ne 
Var. y. sebseoides; leaves oblongo-lanceolate or linear; fl. 4-5 lines long ; 
calyx-lobes incurved at the point, very short ; limb of the petals broadly lanceolate, 
pogo twice as long as the stamens. (. sebeoides, #. & Z./ 1936. G. flava, a. 
. Mey. ! ce 
Var. 3. media; leaves oblong ; fl. 2-3 lines long ; calyx-lobes erect, very short 
and blunt ; limb of the petals ovate-oblong, blunt, twice as long as the stamens. 
Zey. | 2572. : Se 
Var: ¢. depressa; leaves oblong-linear ; fl. 1-2 lines long ; calyx-lobes erect, 
blunt ; limb of the petals ovate-oblong, blunt, } longer than the stamens. 
pressa, E. § Z.1 1937. = Oa eee 
Has. In sandy ground, throughout the western distries. V2 
town, Zwartland, and Groenekloof. Var, 8. Brackfontein, 
shore near Hott. Holland. Var. y. Mountains of Tulbas 
Zonderende, Zeyher./ Var. e. Swellendam, Mundt. _ 
