Crassula. | CRASSULACE (Harv.) 361 
with rigid, reflexed bristly-hairs ; stem erect, simple, robust, densely 
leafy at base, with distant leaf-pairs above, the upper leaves small or 
abortive ; radical leaves broadly oblong or obovate, flat, obtuse, the 
cauline narrow-oblong, all densely hirsuto-setose and ciliate ; cymules 
capitate, subsessile at the nodes, forming a long interrupted spiked- 
thyrsus or spike ; calyx-lobes linear, obtuse, hispid and ciliate, round- 
backed ; petals gradually tapering into a channelled apex ; stigma 
subsessile ; squame cuneate, short. DC. 1. c. 387. Thunb. Cap. p. 287. 
Spheeritis setigera, E. § Z.! 1921, and S. tomentosa, 1920 ! 
_ Has. Muysenberg ; and on barren hills near Gauritz R., Swell., Z. & Z./ Nam- 
——— : Schlicht. Modderfonteyn, Rev. H. Whitehead. Pikenier’s kloof, Zeyher ! 
erbd. . : 
Root woody. Stem 1-2 feet high, robust, virgate, tapering upwards. Leaves 
crowded round the base ; the upper ones diminishing to bracts. Cymules or verti- 
cillasters densely many flowered. Zeyher’s specimen has shorter and less copious 
bristles, but scarcely differs otherwise. In Mr. Whitehead’s specimen the bristles 
on the stem are very fine and close pressed. 
86. C. interrupta (E. Mey. !) everywhere hirsuto-pubescent ; stem 
short, or scarcely any, closely leafy ; leaves subrosulate and almost 
radical, oblate or subrotund, very obtuse, hispid and ciliate ; flowering 
branches slender and virgate, with distant nodes, scapelike ; cymules 
capitate, in an interrupted spiked-thyrsus ; calyx-lobes obovate-oblong, 
blunt, round-backed, hispid ; petals gradually tapering into a broadish, 
channelled point ; styles short and thick ; squame small. — 
Has. Zilverfontein, 2000-3000f. Sep.—Oct. Drege! (Herb. Sd., Hk., Bth.) 
A small, hoary species, with nearly rosulate subradical leaves and a scapelike 
flowering branch 3-6 inches high, with 3-4 nodes, an inch or two apart. Cauline 
leaves depauperated. Radical 4-3 inch long, as broad or broader. Thyrsus of 
3-8 verticillasters. ; 
87. C. glabrifolia (Harv.) stem short, scarcely any, Closely leafy ; 
leaves subrosulate and almost radical, oblong-obovate, obtuse, ciliate, 
otherwise glabrous ; flowering branches slender and virgate, with distant 
nodes, scapelike, canescent ; eymules capitate, in an interrupted spiked- 
thyrsus; calyx-lobes oblong, pbluntish, round-backed, cano-pubescent ; 
_petals gradually pees fee a broadish, channelled point ; styles short 
and thick, squame Ss! 
Stem 4-1 inch long. Lowest leaves 14 inches long, an inch wide at top, connate 
at base, 2-3 pairs crowded together ; upper oblong or sublinear. Scapelike stem 
6-8 inches high, striate, canescent with minute pubescence, with 1-2 distant pair of 
depauperated leaves, ending in an ip gs compound spike 3-5 inches long. 
Cymules few flowered, ein the axils of short bracts. Allied to C. interrupta, 
but with very different foliage. 
8. C, hirtipes (Harv.); dwarf; stem short, erect, succulent, closely 
leafy; leaves ok vate-oblong, obtuse, fleshy, glabrous ; peduncle slen- 
der, patently hispid, ending in a capitate, few flowered cyme ; calyx- 
lobes ovate, densely hispid, half as long as the petals ; petals connate 
at base, the ovate limb gradually tapering into a broadish, channelled ~ 
point ; styles short and thick. Drege, 6900, ee 
‘Han. Ebenezer Mission Station, near the mouth of the Olifant R., Clanw., 
Drege} (Herb. Sond.) Ce ae 
