Rochea. | CRASSULACEZ (Harv.) 369 
oblong, subacute. Crassula versicolor, Burch. Bot. Reg. t. 320. Bot. 
Mag. t. 2356. R. media, DC.? 1c. E. § Z.! 1947. Kalosanthes versi- 
color, and K. media ? Haw. Q a Q 
Has. Table Mt., Burchell. At Paradise, east side of Table Mt., Dr. Wallich ! asp ie 
Dry hills near Zoutendals valley at Hassaquaskloof, Swell., Z. ¢ Z./ (Herb. Sd., jek ; [63 
.C.D., Hk.) 
Stem half woody, 1-2 feet high, branched below ; branches erect, simple, 10-12 
inches long. Leaves 1-14 inch long, gradually attenuate upwards, ilagi 
ciliate, flat. Flowers bright red externally, within white except for a rosy margin, 
at length wholly suffused with red, not quite so long as those of R. coccinea. Tube 
of the corolla about an inch long ; the calyx rather more than half an inch. Flowers 
sweet-scented in the evening. Cultivated in England. 
8. R. jasminea (DC. Prod. 3, 394); stem suffruticose, branched, 
decumbent, the branches ascending or erect, simple, closely leafy ; 
leaves connate at base, narrow-oblong or spathulate, blunt, spreading 
or squarrose ; flowers terminal, solitary or few together, sessile ; sepals 
semi-uncial, lanceolate-linear ; limb of the petals elliptic-oblong, blunt. 
LE. & Z.! 1951. Crass. jasminea, Bot. Mag. t. 2178. Lodd. Cab. t. 
1049. Kalosanthes jasminea, Haw, Rochea microphylla, E. Mey. ! 
Pg = On the Winterhoeksberg, Worcest., Z. ¢ Z./! Dutoitskloof, Drege! (Herb. 
june 6-12 inches long, branched near the base, diffuse. Leaves 4-3 inch long, 
1-2 lines wide, cartilagineo-ciliate. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, opening 
white, becoming rosy, 1} inch long. Cultivated in England. 
. 4, R, odoratissima (DC.); suffruticose; stem erect, scabrous, 
branched ; branches erect, virgate, closely or laxly leafy ; leaves con- 
_nato-vaginate, erecto-patent, linear-lanceolate or subulate, channelled, 
Ywcute or subacute ; cymes capitate, many flowered ; petals semi-uncial, 
%onnate below, lanceolate; limb of the petals lanceolate, subacute. 
E. & Z.! 1850, also 1848 wid 1849. Crass. odoratissima, Andr. Rep. t. 
“26. Jacq. Schoenbr: t. 434. Kalosanthes odor, Haw. Drege, 6898. 
Has. Rocky and yround. Round Capetown, common. Zwarteberg and 
Kisinrivientben Ie z's Pes. (lab. 84, D., Hk., &e.) 
12-18 inches high, much branched or subsimple, the branches corymbose, each 
ending in a head of flowers, Leaves 1-1} inches long, 1—1} lines wide, taper- 
pointed, erect or spreading. Flowers about an inch long, pale-yellow or creamy- _ 
white, sweet-scented, sometimes rosy. £. § Z.’s specimens of “ &. versicolor” and 
“ R. bicolr,” in Herb. Sond., are undistinguishable from this. 
- Imperfectly known Species. 
'B. biconvexa (DC.) ; leaves narrow-linear, distinctly convex at each 
surface. Kalosanthes biconvexa, Haw. 
R. flava (Haw.) ; leaves connato-vaginate, linear; cyme terminal ; 
‘stem shrubby. Burm. Afr. t. 23, f. 3. Crassula flava, Linn. Per- — 
R. fascicularis (Shultz.)) leaves connato-vaginate, linear-lanceolate; 
flowers fascicled ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, ciliate, Corolla 
nearly that of C. cocemea, but shorter. Crass. fascicularis, Lam. 
Probably a mere variety of C. coccinea. a 
R, media (DC); leaves oblongo-lanceolate ; connato-amplexicaul ;— 
flowers variable in colour. How does this differ from 2. versicolor ? 
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