368 CRASSULACEE (Harv.) [ Rochea. 
C. diffusa (Ait.) stem herbaceous ; leaves oblong, tapering at base, 
crenate ; peduncles axillary, solitary. DC, U. ¢. 390. 
C. subulata (Linn. Mant. 360); stem herbaceous, branched ; leaves 
opposite, subulate, terete, spreading ; flowers capitate. DC. I. ¢. 390. 
C. sylvatica (Lichst.) ; stem herbaceous, dichotomous, strigoso-hispid ; 
leaves obovate-oblong, strigose at margin and base ; flowers terminal 
and axillary, solitary. DC. 1. ¢. 390. 
C. ascendens (Thunb.) ; stem suffruticose, decumbent ; branches erect, 
above filiform and naked ; leaves connate, triquetrous, entire, 
spreading, glabrous ; corymb compound. D0. J. c. 390. 
VIL ROCHEA, DC. 
Calyx 5-parted or deeply 5-cleft. Corolla (more or less perfectly) 
gamopetalous, salver-shaped, its tube longer than the calyx, limb 
5-parted, spreading. Stamens 4, adnate with the claws of the petals; 
the anthers subsessile at the throat of the tube. _ Carpels 5, pluriovu- 
late ; styles conniving, subulate or clavate. Squwame very minute. 
Follicles many seeded. DC. Prod, 3. P+ 393, excl. sect. 1. 
Shrubby or half-shrubby succulents, known from Crassula by the salver-shaped 
corolla, with a tube much longer than the calyx. Leaves connate or vaginate at 
base, bordered with cartilaginous cilia, as are also the sepals. Flowers crimson, 
rosy, white or pale yellow. Name in honour of M. de la Roche, a French botanist. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Stem erect ; flowers in subcapitate, many flowered cymes : 
Lvs. ovate-oblong or obovate ; flowers crimson, 14-2 
eee ee Ga. es a (1) coccinea, es 
Lys. oblongo-lanceolate ; flowers uncial, rosy and . . 
white, variable ee ee 
Lvs. linear-lanceolate or subulate, channel 4 
yellow orcream coloured ... ........ ... = 
Stem decumbent ; flowers solitary or few together, white, 
1, B. coccinea (DC. Pl. Grass. t. 1); shrubby, robust ; stem erect, 
_ Ssubsimple, imbricated with leaves ; leaves connate at base, ovate-oblong 
or obovate, acute or subacute ; cymes corymboso-capitate, many flowered ; 
sepals uncial, linear-lanceolate ; limb of the petals ovate or ovate-ob- 
long, acute. DC. 1. ¢. P. 394. E.& Z.! 1946. Crassula coccinea, Linn.. 
Bot. Mag. t. 495. Kalosanthes coccinea, Haw. ; 
Has. Among stones at the summit of Table Mt., common. (Herb. D., Sd., Hk. 
_ Stem 1-2 feet high, 2~4 lines in diameter. Leaves rie esi very a 
ae ae ci q-1 _ wide, the lowest ones often narrower than 
pate" oray . ers bright scarlet, 14-2 inches long ; the calyx uncial. 
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2. R. versicolor (DC. Prod. 3. P- 394); suffruticose ; stem erect, 
branched, imbricated with leaves ; ead connato-vaginate, oblongo- 
lanceolate, acute or subacute ; cymes corymboso-capitate, several 
__ flowered; sepals semiuncial, connate below, keeled, lanceolate, two- 
: thirds as long as the tube of the corolla ; limb of the petals lanceolate- 
(3) jasminea. a a 
