350 _ CRASSULACEA (Harv.) [Crassula. 
47. C. rosularis (Haw. Rev. p. 13); herbaceous, without runners ; 
leaves radical, sub-horizontally spreading, imbricate, rosulate, oblongo- 
lanceolate or spathulate or strap-shaped, acute or subacute, carnoso-coria- 
ceous, flat, glabrous, cartilagineo-ciliate ; peduncles scapelike, leafless 
or with depauperated, distant, opposite leaves ; cymes in a thyrsus or 
a branching panicle ; flowers pedicellate ; calyx-lobes short, oblong, 
ciliolate ; petals free, obovate, apiculate; styles short. DC. 2 ¢. 389. 
£.& Z.! 1901. Zey.! 2539. Drege ! 6897. 
Has. Woods near the Zwartkops, Uit. and Kat-river Settlement, Caffr., E ¢ Z. / 
Adow, Zey/ Klein and Groot Fish R., Drege! Near Grahamstown, Mr. Hutton ! 
Natal, Dr. Sutherland! (Herb. Sd. Hk., D., Bth.) 
Very like the preceding but with much longer and sharper leaves, taller 
flower-stem and more branching inflorescence ; each flower on a distinct, short 
pedicel. Leaves 3-5 inches long or more, }, {—-1} inch broad, mostly acute, some- 
times acuminate, rarely blunt. Flowers small, white. 
48. C. ericoides (Haw. Phil. Mag, 1825); stem suffruticose, erect, 
dichotomous, fastigiate, naked below, closely imbricated with leaves 
above ; leaves opposite, ovate or ovato-lanceolate, subcordate at base, 
erect, flat, with sub-recurved margins, glabrous ; cymules sessile, ter- 
minal, 3-8-flowered ; calyx-lobes nearly equalling the corolla, linear, 
obtuse, glabrous; petals nearly free, oblong, acute, concave, nerve- 
keeled ; styles subulate ; squame minute. DO. J. c. p. 385. Tetraphyle 
Surcata, L. § Z.! 1866. Zey. | 2521, 2522, 2523. Drege ! 6903. 
Has, Sandy flats between Krakakamma and Vanstaadensberg ; also Quagga- 
vlakte and Adow, and near Grahamstown, FE. § Z./ Cradockstadt ; Zoutpanshoodge, 
Sing ; and Winterhoeksberg, Zeyher ! Aasvogelsberg, Drege! (Herb. Sd., Hk., D., 
A much branched, densely leafy suffrutex, with annulated, slightly pubescent or 
glabrate stems or branches. Leaves quadrifariously imbricated in closely alterna- 
ting pairs, 3-4 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, subacute. Flowers few at the ends of the 
leafy branches, white, 2 lines long. 
_ 49. C. deltoidea (Linn. £ Suppl. 189) ; suffruticose, dwarf, branch- 
ing from the crown; leaves closely imbricated, 4-ranked, deltoid, 
fleshy, keeled, spreading, pulverulent ‘glaucous ; peduncles terminal, 
orm, elongate, pulverulent ; cymes loosely panicled, or corymbose ; 
calyx-lobes ovate, scabrido-pulverulent ; petals nearly free, spreading, 
oblong, bluntish, submucronulate ; stigma sessile; squame minute. 
Zey.? 659. DC. 1. c. 386 ? Thunb. Cap. 288 ? 
Has. Lislap, Zeyher! Wallich! (Herb. Sd., Hk., Bth. D.) 
Branches several from the crown, 2-3 inches long, completely imbricated with 
fleshy, spreading, decussate, short leaves. Leaves 3-] inch long, ovato-deltoid, 
flattened above, (?) deeply keeled, bluish white. Peduncles 3-4 i ked 
or tid, slender,” Flowers small, paliedlccg, “amt 3-4 inches Tong, for 
50. C, anguina (Harv.) ; stem suffruticose, flexuous, irrecularl 
branched, closely imbricated throughout with minute leaiian rose 
4-tanked, without amillary gemme, appressed, cordate-ovate, acute, flat- 
tish-subconvex, glabrous ; flowers minute, axillary ; calyx-lobes nearly 
equalling corolla, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; petals connate, erecto- 
patent, oblong, acute, concave ; styles shortly subulate, Zey. / 641. 
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