362 - ORASSULACE (Harv.) [Crassula. 
Stem 1-2 inches high, densely clothed with leaves. Leaves } inch long, 2-3 lines 
wide, succulent. Peduncle 1-2 inches long, rough with stiff, spreading, dark hairs 
or bristles, bearing a flat-topped dense cyme. Flowers 1-13 lines long. Described 
3 from a very imperfect specimen. 
Section TV. MARGARELLA. (Sp. 89-91). 
_ §9.C. margaritifera (E.&Z.! 1913); stem slender, suffruticose, erect 
with virgate branches, microscopically puberulent, with subdistant leaf- 
pairs ; leaves linear-trigonous or nearly subulate, subacute, fleshy, 
minutely punctulate; cymes sub-capitate, terminal or corymbose ; 
calyx-lobes 2 of corolla, linear, truncate and thickened at point, serrulate, 
keeled ; petals connate, panduriform, suddenly contracted into a fleshy, 
furrowed apex ; stigma subsessile; squamz cuneate. Spheritis mar- 
garitifera, LH. § Z.! Zey. 2549, 2551. Drege! 6912. 
Has. Fields near the Zwartkops River and Bethelsdorf, FZ. ¢ Z. ! Drege ! (Herb. 
Sd., Hk 
55 eee) 
Stem 12-16 inches high, divided near the base into many simple, curved branches, 
each 12-14 inches long. Lower leaf-pairs }-4 inch apart, upper 14-2 inches. 
Leaves uncial, mostly acute, minutely dotted with white points. Flowers small. 
90. C. subaphylla (E. & Z.! 1916) ; stem slender, suffruticose, erect 
or spreading, with virgate branches, puberulous or pubescent, with dis- 
tant leaf-pairs ; leaves connate, minute, fleshy, semiterete-ovate or 
oblong, scaberulous or puberulous, obtuse ; cymes sub-capitate, termi- 
nal or panicled, with subsessile flowers ; calyx-lobes 4 of corolla, ovate- 
oblong, keeled, scabrous or pubescent, blunt; petals subconnate, 
panduriform, suddenly acuminate into a channelled and complicate 
apex ; stigma subsessile ; squame emarginate. Spheritis subaphylla, 
£.§ Z. 1 
Var. 8. puberula; more evidently pubescent. Sph. puberula, BE. § Z./ 1919. 
Has. Dry hills near the Gauritz River, Swell., Z. § Z./ (Herb. Sd.) ° 
Stems 12-14 inches high, branched near the base, with simple flexuous branches. 
_Leaf-pairs }-1 inch apart ; leaves 2-3 lines long, 1-1} line wide, Heads of flowers 
small, solitary or in a brachiate panicle. Flowers pale. The pubescence is sometimes 
very minute, sometimes copious ; in other respects the two forms indicated agree. 
91. C. biconvexa (E. & Z.! 1918); stem depressed, suffruticose, 
branching and ceespitose, closely leafy ; leaves shortly spathulate or obo- 
vate, convex on both sides, small, retrorsely hispid, obtuse ; peduncle 
scapelike, naked ; cymes capitate, terminal, with subsessile flowers ; 
ealyx-lobes 4 of corolla, hispid, obdongo-linear, blunt, keeled ; petals 
-panduriform, suddenly acuminate into a channelled and complicate 
apex ; stigma subsessile ; squame cuneate. Spherritis biconvexa, LH. & Z.! 
Has. Near the Gauritz River on dry hills. E.  Z. / (Herb. Sond.) 
_ Stem 2-3 inches high, closely branched and matted. “Leaves 3~5 lines long, 2-3 
lines wide. Peduncle 4-6 inches long, threadlike, bearing a small head of flowers, 
naked or with one of two distant pairs of dwindled leaves. Of this I have only seen 
a solitary specimen. : 
_ Section V, PACHYAGRIS, (Sp. 92.) 
92. C. trachysantha (E. & Z.! 1915); the suffruticose, branching, 
slender stem, the peduncles, leaves aaa ae densely ae pneaiae 
