354 CRASSULACE (Harv.) [Crassula. 
61. C. expansa (Ait. Kew. 1 p. 390); stem herbaceous, scarcely 
ligneous at base, irregularly dichotomous, much branched, diffuse, 
glabrous ; the branches filiform ; leaves subconnate, spreading or re- 
curved, linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute, fleshy, convex beneath, 
glabrous ; flowers on long thread-like pedicels, axillary, solitary, or the 
terminal subcymose ; calyx-lobes nearly as long as the spreading co- 
rolla, linear, blunt, with obtuse interspaces ; petals connate at base, 
elliptic-oblong, subacute; styles shortly subulate; squamz shortly 
cuneate. DC./ c. 387. C. filicaulis, H.& Z, ! 1883. Zey ! 2524, 653, 
2525. C. expansa, and C. parviflora, E. Mey ! in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Near the Zwartkops R., Uit. and Gauritz R., Swell. Z. g Z. / Breede Riv. 
and Hassagaiskloof ; also at Lislap, Zeyher / Between Coega and Zondag Rivers ; 
also Los Tafelberg, Natal, Drege! Port Natal, Dr. Sutherland ! Gueinzius/! (Herb. 
Sd., D., Hk., Bth.) 
Biennial or annual? Stems 4-12 inches long or more, widely spreading and 
much divided, pale, leafy throughout. ‘Leaves 4 inch apart, $-1 inch long, 1-2 
lines wide, rarely wider, mostly acute, shrinking when dry. Pedicels 3—14 inches 
long, very slender. Flowers 1-2 lines long. A widely distributed species. Dr. 
Gueinzius’ specimens (in Hb. Hooker) have much larger leaves than usual, being 1 
inch long, 3 lines wide : otherwise the plant is the same as Natal specimens of the 
ordinary size. 
62, C. centauroides (Linn. Sp. 404) ; stem herbaceous, distantly 
forked, diffuse or prostrate, 4-angled, glabrous ; leaves connato-perfo- 
liate, either cordate-ovate, ovate, elliptical, oblong or obovate, obtuse or 
acute or mucronate, flat, thinnish, (pellucid when dry), margined and 
often dotted within the margin, quite entire or crenato-denticulate ; 
flowers on filiform pedicels, the lower axillary, the upper in a terminal 
sessile or pedunculate umbel or fascicle ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acu- 
minate, keeled, glabrous ; petals nearly free, spreading, oblongo-or 
ovato-lanceolate, acute, concave ; styles shortly subulate, D0. 1. ¢. p. 
386. Bot. Mag. t. 1765. Dill. Elth. t. 100. f. 119. E. § Z.! 1893. and C. 
pellucida, 1895. Zey! 654. C. minima, E. & Z./ 1896, non Thunb. 
Var. 8. marginalis; leaves cordate or ovate, subsessile, mucronate, dotted with- 
in the margin. 0. marginalis, DO. l. ¢,, Jacq. Schenbr. t. 471. Zey/ 2525, 2527. 
Drege | 6889. E. § Z./ 1894. C. prostrata, E. Mey lin Hb. Drege. 
_ Has. Wet rocks, &c., round Table Mountain, near the summit and on the Win- 
terhoeksberg, Tulbagh, Thunberg! W.H.H. &c. Simons Bay, OC. Wright / 559. 8B. 
_ in Uitenhage ; ens: and on to Port Natal, in similar situations. £. ¢ Z.! Drege! 
Sometimes all the leaves are cordate-ovate ; sometimes ovato-lanceolate and 
even acuminate, When dry they are pellucid and veiny, often with linear purple 
3. 
Table Mt.., belongs to it. ‘“C. dichotoma” of Herb. Thunb. is a form of this 
species, with ) ulate, acute leaves. 
68. C. brachypetala (E. Mey !); stem herbaceous, distantly forked, 
diffuse, 4-angled, pubescent ; leaves sub-connate at base, the lower sub- 
petiolate, oblongo or ovato-lanceolate, distant, acute, pubescent, flat, thin- 
= nish, margined and dotted within the margin ; flowers on filiform 
