Crassula. | CRASSULACEE (Harv.) 347 
level-topped, reddish-brown. Leaves 13-24 lines long, 4 line wide, mostly shorter 
than the internodes. Cymules ending all the branches. Flowers 2 lines long, white. 
37, C. setulosa (Harv.); stem herbaceous, erect, subsimple, rigidly 
hispid, leaf-pairs subdistant ; lower leaves oblong or obovate, upper 
_ovato-lanceolate, all membranous, rigidly hispid on one or both sur- 
faces and ciliate, (or glabrous except the margin) ; cymes corymboso- 
paniculate, many flowered ; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, § of suberect 
corolla, ciliate with or without dorsal bristles ; petals sub-connate at 
base, oblong, concave, contracted in the middle ; styles shortly subu- 
late ; scales minute. Zey./ 650. 
Has. Doornkop, Burke § Zeyher! 401 (650). (Herb. Hk., Sd., D., Bth.) 
- Radical leaves subrosulate, 2-4 pairs close together. Stems 4-8 inches high, one 
or more froma the same root, simple or branched near the base. Panicle trichoto- 
mous or forked, spreading ; its divisions densely corymbose. Flowers 1-1} line 
long, white. The whole plant generally clothed with spreading bristles ; but the 
larger leaves sometimes quite bare ; sometimes clothed on one side only. 
38. C. lanuginosa (Harv.); herbaceous, diffuse, branching, clothed 
with short, patent, white pubescence ; leaf-pairs lax ; leaves sub-distinct, 
short, ovato-lanceolate or ovate, acute, sub-oblique, spreading ; cymes 
terminal, subsessile, few flowered, forked ; flowers pedicellate ; calyx- 
lobes lanceolate, acute, strigose ; petals one-third longer than the calyx, 
connate at base, oblong, contracted at the sides ; stigma subsessile. 
C. strigosa, Drege, non L. & C. 6901. Drege. 
Has. Gaatje, near the Stormberg, 5000f. and Nieuwe Hantam, 4500-5000f. 
Drege! (Herb. Sd., Hk., Bth.) i 
A small, branching, weak-stemmed plant, 3-6 inches long, everywhere equally 
albo-pubescent. ‘Leaves 3-4 lines long, 1-2 lines wide, when dry somewhat cultri- 
form. Peduncle very short, once or twice forking or unilaterally cymose ; the cyme 
6—12-flowered. Flowers 1 line long, 
39. C. exilis (Harv.); stem short, erect, succulent, simple, closely 
leafy, scabrous ; leaves connate at base, oblong, very thick and fleshy, 
blunt, minutely scabro-pubescent ; peduneles terminal, short, slender, 
pubescent, bearing a 3-5-flowered, corymbulose cyme ; flowers subses- 
sile ; calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, blunt, pubescent, half as long as the © 
recurved, obovate petals ; styles subulate ; squamz minute, fleshy. 
Has, Namaqualand, Rev. H. Whitehead! (Herb. T.C.D.) : 
Bi ao one or several from i same ard — — +s lines in — 
-pai Bee ae apart. ves » 2 es wide, a n pi- 
pear ine “a but pa oe ower stem Sak ae ean high ; 
flowers 1} line long, white. Remarkable for the disproportion between its clumsy 
stems and fleshy leaves, and the slender peduncle and small size. 
styles subulate; squame minute. DC.0 c. 3, 
PL Grass. t. 121. Jacq. Scheenb. t. 431. Willd. Sp. 1, p. 153 
C. perfossa, HL. Mey. / in Herb. Drege. 2 gi 
