Crassula. } CRASSULACEE (Harv.) 353 
form ; squame linear. DC. J. ¢. p. 389. Pl. Grass. t. 57. H. & Z.! 1929. 
also C. strigosa, Lam.? EH. & Z.1 1932. Drege! 6881, 6882. Zey/ 636. 
Var. 8. patens; calyx-lobes ovato-lanceolate, acute or mucronate. Thisantha 
patens, E. § Z. | 1930. 
Has. Sandy ground round Capetown and in the Western Districts, common. 
(Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
A much branched annual, 2-4 inches high, every branch ending in a tuft of small 
flowers. Leaves 3-4 lines long, 1-2 lines wide, sometimes ovato-lanceolate. Our 
var. 8. merely differs in the calyx-lobes ; it is scarcely worth separating. 
58. C. glabra (Haw. Syn. 58); stem annual, many times dichoto-. 
mous, fastigiate, glabrous or nearly so ; leaves connate, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous ; flowers minute, solitary in the forks of the 
stem, the terminal ones cymoso-paniculate or subglomerate, all minutely 
pedicellate ; calyx-lobes shorter than the corolla, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous, fleshy; petals connate at base, oblong or laterally concave, 
obtuse ; styles shortly subulate; ovary roughish; squame cuneate. DC. 
lc. p. 389. #.¢ Z./ 1931. Drege ! ex pte. C. capillacea, «. LE. Mey ! 
Has. Moist sandy places on the Cape flats and elsewhere. (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) 
Like C. glomerata, but more laxly panicled, with narrower leaves and shorter 
calyx-lobes. Stems 2~4 inches high ; leaves 2-3 lines long, 4 line wide. “ C. ca- 
pillacea, b.” E. Mey! is Dinacria jiliformis. 
59. C. decumbens (E. & Z.! 1933, non Thunb.) ; stem annual, diffuse 
or procumbent, irregularly branched, filiform, glabrous ; leaves connate, 
linear-fleshy, obtuse, glabrous; flowers minute, in tufts at the nodes, the 
terminal ones cymose or subumbeliate, all on filiform pedicels ; calyx-lobes 
longer than the corolla, near, blunt, glabrous, fleshy ; petals connate 
at base, oblong, obtuse ; styles shortly subulate ; squams cuneate. C. 
glabra, ¢., E. Mey ! in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Sandy spots at Greenpoint, and near Saldanha Bay, Z. § Z. / Simons Bay, 
C. Wright ! 552, 561. Berg River, Zey/ 651, (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) 
With the habit of an Adenogramma. It is known from C. glabra by the irregular 
branching, the tufts of usually long stalked but occasionally subsessile flowers at the 
nodes, and the much longer and more linear ng eee Stems 3-4 inches long, 
very weak and slender. Leaves 2-3 lines rg 2 line wide. Flowers 1 line long. 
shpc he * (, decumbens,” according to his Herbarium is Bulliarda trichotoma, 
60. C. albicaulis (Harv.) ; perennial,? glabrous ; stem prostrate, 
di-trichotomous, much branched, branches divaricating, angular, com- 
pressed, very pale (or white); leaves opposite, very patent, linear or 
linear-oblong or ovate-oblong, sublanceolate, obtuse; flowers minute, 
on angular pedicels, solitary in the forks, the uppermost cymose or sub- 
umbellate ; calyx-lobes 2 of corolla, linear, blunt, with round inter- 
spaces, keeled ; petals subconnate at base, ovate, obtuse ; styles shortly 
subulate ; squamz cuneate. 
Has. Ezel’s Fonteyn, Namaqualand, Rev. H. Whitehead! (Herb. T.C.D.) 
Root thick, somewhat woody. Stems many from the crown, spi 
ches to all sides, many times decompound, drying of an ivory whiteness and rather 
rigid. Leaf-pairs about half inch apart toward the ends of the branches, an inch — 
or more below, usually only at the forks of the stem. Leaves 5-8 lines long, 1-2 
wide, mostly linear, some inclining to ovate or lanceolate. Pedicels 3-4 lines long, 
swollen upwards. Flowers 1 line long, white. Petals exactly ovate, about one- 
third longer than the stamens. en eee 
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