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in the poorest specimens unbranched, but usually branched. 

 Leaves opposite with connate bases, obovate-oblong, obtuse, suc- 

 culent, and, like the whole plant, more or less tinged with red- 

 dish-violet. Flowers in subumbellate cymes at the top of the 

 branches, some with long stalks (up to 1 cm), others short-stalked 

 or nearly sessile. Flowers 4-merous (sometimes 3-merous), sepals 

 (about 1.5 mm long) broadly lanceolate-oblong, acute to acuminate, 

 succulent, never spreading, longer than the subacute ovate petals 

 (1.0 — 1.3 mm long). Stamina 4 (3); carpels obliquely oblong- 

 ovate with a very short style (stigma nearly sessile), when ripe 

 exceeding the calyx, each containing many minute (0.3 mm long) 

 brownish seeds. Nectary scales minute, obcuneate with rounded 

 apex (see Fig. 10 a). 



Undoubtedly this species is quite distinct from C. macrantha, 

 but on the other hand it is nearly related to some South-African 

 species (sect. Umbellata Schönl. ), namely C. Dodii Schönl. & Baker f., 

 and C. umbellata Thunb. 



My specimens were found growing in damp clayey places 

 near Armadale (Nos. 1104, 1105, 20. Sept. 1914) and I hade had 

 it sent from the vicinity of Perth (Mrs. Davis, No. 1451, 1915). 

 Of the latter specimens I have sown seeds and have had plants 

 growing, from which the description above has been completed. 

 They (see fig. 12) differed from the spontaneous specimens in 

 richer branching, more slender growth, flowers on longer stalks, 

 and very little reddish tinge. 



Geogr. Area: S. and W. Australia. 



4. Group. Mu s co sa Schönl. 



4. Crassula Miriamæ nov. sp. (Figs. 10 c and 13). Herba 

 annua, parva, 4 — 8 cm alta, ramosa. Folia succulenta, ovato- 

 oblonga, acuta vel subacuta. Flores in glomerulis axillaribus, 

 sessiles vel breviter pedunculati, 5-meri (rarius 4-meri intermixti). 

 Sepala succulenta, ovato-triangulata, acuta vel acuminata, mar- 

 gine corrodata ; petala sepalis subæquilonga, lineari-lanceolata, 

 acuminata, albo-pellucida. Stamina brevia; carpellæ obovato- 

 rotundatæ, obtusæ, stylo mediocri instructæ, maturæ quam sepalis 

 incurvatis multo breviores, inflatæ. Semina 2 in carpella singula. 

 Nectaria minuta, lineari-clavata. 



Hab. Australia occid., in vicinitatc urbis Perth (No. 1452, 

 leg. Mrs. M. Davis, 1915). 



Ex affinitate C. Sieberianæ a qua præcipue differt sepalis 



