358 -CRASSULACEE (Harv.) [ Crassula. 
wered ; in strong ly wn they are much branched, in a dense, almost fasciculate 
petteers bearing thy flowers os more. In this case the corolla is rather smaller 
than when there are few flowers. Petals with recurved tips, 2-3 lines long, white, 
with a rosy tint. 
75. ©. Septas (Thunb.! Cap. 291) ; root tuberous ; stem erect, with 
1-2 internodes, simple, crowned by 2-4 horizontally patent leaves ; 
leaves connate, cuneate at base, roundish-flabelliform, coriaceo-carnose, 
crenate, glabrous ; cymes on long naked peduncles, simple or branched, 
sub-umbellate, few or many flowered, with long, slender pedicels ; calyx- 
lobes } of corolla, lanceolate ; petals 6-7-9 free, stellate, broadly lan- 
ceolate, acute or subacute ; stamens 6-7-9 ; styles subulate ; squame 
very small and fleshy. Septas Capensis, Linn. DC. 1. ¢. p. 383. E.& Z.! 
1861. Lam. Ill. t. 276. 8. globifera, Bot. Mag. t. 1472. 
Has. Moist places on mountain sides, round Capetown and on Hott. Holland, 
frequent. (Herb. Thunb., Sd., Hk., D., &e.) 
Stem 2-4 inches high. Leaves 1-3 inches long, 1-2 inches wide. Peduncle 
seapelike, 4-8 inches high. Petals white or rosy, 3-5 lines long. Cyme very 
variable in composition : 8, globifera is merely a very luxuriant, garden variety. 
| Section II. PYRAMIDELLA. (Sp. 76-79.) 
76. C. pyramidalis (Linn. f. Suppl. 189); stem suffruticose, erect, 
simple, imbricated with leaves throughout ; leaves 4-ranked, most 
closely imbricating, connate at base, broadly ovate or deltoid, acute or 
subacute, with strongly reflexed margins, somewhat keeled, glabrous ; 
cymes densely capitate, many flowered, sessile, terminal or axillary ; 
calyx-lobes linear, obtuse, round-backed; ciliate ; pétals connate below, 
tapering above into long, lanceolate channelled points, much longer 
than the calyx ; stigma subsessile ; squame cuneate, stipitate, bright 
orange. DC. 1. c. p. 388. Thunb.! Cap. 287. E. § Z.! 1863, also Te- 
traphyle quadrangula, E. & Z.! 1864. 
Has. Olifants River, Thunberg. In the Karroo between Uitenhage and Graaf 
Reynet, and mountain sides near Klipplaat river, FE. ¢ Z.! Drie oppen, and 
Zwaanepoelsportberge, Drege/ Gamke River, Burke and Zeyher / 656. (Herb. Sd., 
Hk., D., Bth.) 
_ Stem 3-8 inches high, forming, with the closely imbricated leayes, a sharply four- 
angled prism of nearly equal diameter throughout, or gradually widening upwards. 
Heads of flowers mostly terminal ; in luxuriant specimens also lateral, in all cases 
sessile. Points of the petals very long. E. & Z’s. Ter. quadrangula is founded on 
old specimens with shrivelled leaves and withered flowers. 
_ 77. ©. columnaris (Linn. f. Suppl. 1 91); stem short, erect, simple, 
imbricated with leaves throughout ; leaves connate, 4-ranked, closely 
imbricating, orbicular, fleshy, very obtuse, with inflewed, ciliate margins ; 
cymes capitate, terminal, sessile, densely many flowered ; calyx-lobes 
linear, obtuse, ciliate ; petals connate below, tapering above into long, 
lanceolate, channelled points, much longer than the calyx ; stigma 
subsessile ; squame cuneate, stipitate, orange. DC. J. c. 385. Thunb./ 
Cap. 2gt. Zey.! 657. — 
Has. Under dl, Thunberg. Hex Rivier’ ‘ Zoutkloof, Burke 
waa at ee 
2-4 inches high, closely covered with leaves and crowned with a globose fascicle 
of flowers, the whole plant resembling one of the Balanophoree. eaves nearly 
an inch broad, not quite so long, more or less inrolled. Flowers white. 
