C. H. Ostenfeld: Contributions to West Australian Botany. II. 41 



Bentham, Fl. Austral. II (1864) 457; J. M. Black, in Transact. R. 

 Soc, S. Austr. XL (1916) 63. 



Seems to be fairly distributed in damp places in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Perth. Specimens were collected at Mundaring 

 Weir (No. 363, 13. Sept. 1914), in several places around Armadale 

 (Nos. 358, 359, 362, 20. Sept. 1914) and in the vicinity of Perth 

 (No. 1349, Mrs. M. Davis, 1915). They were in flower and with 

 ripe fruits in September. Often 

 they are more or less red- 

 coloured, especially the sepals 

 and carpels. 



The species was first re- 

 corded for W. A. by Diels and 

 Pritzel. It was originally de- 

 scribed from Tasmania, and is, 

 according to F. v. Müller (Sec. 

 Census, 84), further found in 

 N. S. Wales, Victoria and S. 

 Australia. 



From Hooker's descrip- 

 tion it appears that the original 

 Tasmanian plant has ciliated 

 sepals. All the West Australian 

 have no trace of ciliation, and 

 may be worth giving a varietal 

 name (var. nov. nuda: sepala 

 nuda, non ciliata). Bentham 

 (1. c.) mentions the sepals as 

 "sometimes, but not always, 

 ciliate". 



I have had it in cultiva- 

 tion (in 1917) from seeds taken 

 from plants collected by Mrs. 



Davis in 1915 (No. 1349). When flowering it has a strong honey- 

 smell. 



The cultivated specimens, one or which is drawn (fig. 11), 

 grow to a size of ca. 10 cm, and are somewhat more elongated 

 than the spontaneous ones. The leaves are oblong-linear, semi- 

 terete, acute or acuminate. The flowers are usually 4-merous, 

 larger than in other species; they open when full-grown, the green 

 sepals and white petals spreading (diameter about 3 mm); often 

 the petals, which are about as long as the sepals, have pink- 



Fig. 11. Crassula macrantha (Hook, f.) 



Diels et Pritzel, var. nuda nov. var. 



Cultivated specimen. (Nat. size) 



