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a laxly leafy ; leaves connate, obovate elliptical, or obovate-oblong, curved, 
‘DO:l.¢. 391. Sims. Bot. Mag. t. 1940. Dill. Hlth. f. 114. Globulea cul- 
_.* Has. Shrubby places near the Zwartkops R., E. § Z.! Olifants R., Thunberg. Boon 
95. ©. platyphylla (Harv.); tem seareely arty, densely leafy 
Jeaves stib-tadical, rosulate, broadly obovate or nbrotund, very obtuse, — 
flat, rigid, glabrous, smoo 
blunt, pubescent, round-backed ; petals connate at | ase, panda! 
Crassula. | CRASSULACE2 (Harv.) 363 
leaves subulate, semiterete, acute, the upper ones in distant pairs ; 
cymes pedunculate, much branched, corymboso-fasciculate ; flowers 
subsessile ; calyx-lobes lanceolate-linear, subacute, round-backed ; pe- 
tals lanceolate, rough-edged, tipped with a triquetrous, fleshy gland ; stig- 
ma sessile ; squame emarginate. Spheeritis trachysantha, LE. § Z./ and 
Sph. paucifolia, BE. & Z. 1 1914. Zey.! 2547, 2548. Drege | 6902. 
Has. Zwartehoogdens, near Grahamstown and dry hills at Zwartkops R., E. $ 
Z.! Howison’s Poort, H. Hutton / Enon, Drege! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk., Bth.) e 
An erect or spreading, half herbaceous succulent, densely hirsute in all parts, oe 
12-18 inches high. Peduncles terminal, forked or trifid, the branches simple or 
again divided ; inflorescence flat-topped. The fleshy glandular apex of the petalsis ~ 
ridged in front, and very prominent. The petals are scarcely connate at base. ee 
Possibly this is Globulea mesembryanthemoides, Haw.? ‘Leaves sometimes short and 3 ; 
subobtuse, $-3 inch long. 2 . "3 
Section VI. GLOBULEA. (Sp. 93-99-) : 
93. C. cultrata (Linn. Sp. 2.405); stem erect, suffruticose, subsimple; 
flattish, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, smooth-edged or ciliolate ; pe- 
duncle elongate, with distant leaf-scales, pubescent, panicled above, the Me 
cyntules dense with subsessile flowers ; calyx-lobes linear, blunt, 2 
pubescent, keeled ; petals connate at base, panduriform, with an ovate’. Pe | 
dorsal gland below the apex ; stigma nearly sessile ; squame truncate. “- - 4 
8S 
trata, Haw. E. § Z.! 1922. Zey.! 255%, 2557) 2558. 
(Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) 
Stem 2-3 feet high including the leafy peduncle, mostly simple. Leaves variable 
in size, sometimes 1-1} inches long and } inch wide, sometimes 2-24 inches long 
and 3-1 inch wide. Panicle either closely thyrsoid or much branched and spreading. 
Flowers small and green. 
94, C. radicans (Haw.); stem suffruticose, ascending-erect, with oe 
spreading lateral branches that take root beneath, laxly leafy; leaves soe 
connate, lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate, narrow, cultrate, flattish, sub- _ Roe 
acute or acute, glabrous, smooth-edged ; peduncle elongate, slender, 
with distant leaf-scales, glabrescent, cymoso-corymbose at the summit, the 
mooth-edged ; peduncle scapelike, puberulous, 
rowed, with a few minute leaf-scales and ending in a long s' , 
thyrsus ; eymules capitate-subsessile, pubescent; calyx-lobes Uoeit, = 
