Orassula. | CRASSULACEE (Harv.) | 359 
78, C. semiorbicularis (E. & Z. ! 1890) ; stem erect, simple, densely 
imbricated with leaves below, laxly leafy above, glabrous ; leaves_con- 
nate, the lower ones imbricating, broadly orbicular, fleshy, very obtuse, 
hispidulous, with inflexed, ciliate margins, the upper depauperated, 
roundish-ovate, concave ; cymes corymbose, densely trichotomous, brac- 
teate ; calyx-lobes linear, obtuse, ciliate ; petals connate below, taper- 
ing above into long, lanceolate channelled points ; stigma thick, sessile; 
squamee flabelliform, stipitate. C. columnaris, var. 8. elongata, L. Mey.! 
Zey.! 658. 
Has, Kamiesberg, Namaqualand, £. ¢ Z. ! Olifants R., Zeyher / 658, Ebenezer, 
and near Mierenkasteel and Zwartdoorn River, Drege! (Herb, Sd., Hk.) 
Very similar to C. columnaris, and perhaps only a smaller, but taller and more 
caulescent variety, with looser inflorescence. Stem 3-4 inches high, about § imbri- 
cated with leaves, 3 with subdistant nodes. 
79, C. multiceps (Harv.); stem suffruticose, exspitose, multifid, 
densely imbricated throughout with leaves ; leaves connato-vaginate, 
from a broad base shortly subulate or lanceolate-attenuate, fleshy, with 
subrecurved margins, glabrous ; cymules few flowered, capitate, sessile, 
terminating the leafy branches ; calyx-lobes linear, ciliolate ; petals 
connate below, tapering above into long, lanceolate points; stigma 
subsessile ; squame flabelliform, stipitate. Zey.! 660. 
Has. Elandsfontein, Zeyher! (Herb. Hk. Sd.) 
2-3 inches high, dividing from the crown into many, short, forked, corymbose 
branches, closely leafy throughout like those of Lycopodium Selago, the narrow points 
of the leaves spreading or squarrose. Flowers 3-5, at the ends of the branches, 
white ; the narrow lobes of the corollatwice or thrice as long as the calyx. 
Section III, SPHAERITIS. (Sp. 80-88.) 
80. C. Spheritis (Harv.) ; stem slender, suffruticose, erect, with 
virgate branches, laxly hispid (chiefly in two opposite lines), with sub- 
distant leaf-pairs ; leaves subulate, acuminate or acute, flattish or keeled, 
cartilagineo-serrate or ciliate ; cymes sub-capitate, terminal ; calyx-lobes 
2 of corolla, linear, subacute, entire or denticulate ; petals gradually 
tapering into a subulate, channelled apex; stigma subsessile ; squamz 
linear, truncate. Spherritis typica, L. & Z.! 1910, S. stenophylla, E. & 
Z.1 1911, and S. murieata, B.& Z.1 1912. Drege | 6894, 6908. Zey./ 
erit’ inflorescence and The three Ecklonian species here united are not 
distinguishable when dry ; the leaves vary from broader to narrower, flatter to more 
convex, and also in the ity and strength of the marginal toothlets or cilia. 
81. C. incana (E. & Z.! 1917); everywhere minutely cano-puberu- 
lous; stem suffruticose, with slender, virgate branches and sub-distant 
‘leaf-pairs ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, subacute, fleshy, convex beneath, 
the uppermost depauperated and swbovate ; cymes capitate, terminal or 
in a brachiate panicle ; calyx-lobes 4 the corolla, ovate or broadly lan- 
