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CRASSULACEAE 



3. Hasseanthus Blochmaniae (Eastw.) Rose. Blochman's Hasseanthus. 



Fig. 2204. 



Sedum Blochmaniae Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 6: 422. 1896. 

 Hasseanthus Blochmaniae Rose, Bull. N.Y. Bot. Card. 3: 37. 1903. 

 Hasseanthus Kessleri Davidson, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 22: 72. 1923. 

 Hasseanthus variegatus var. Blochmaniae Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 450. 1925. 

 Sedum Gertrudianum Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. IV. 20: 147. 1931. 



Corm shallow subglobose or somewhat fusiform, 1.5 cm. long. Basal leaves 4 or 6, ob- 

 lanceolate to obovate, turgid but flattened, narrowed below into a slender petiole exceeding the 

 blade- flowering stems one to several, 12-15 cm. high, slender, blotched with purple; stem leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, fleshy but flattened, acute, the lower 10-15 mm. ong ; cyme with one or two 

 spreading loosely-flowered secund racemes; pedicels very short, calyx-lobes ovate, 5 mm. long; 

 corolla-lobes broadly lanceolate, 7-8 mm. long, white tinged with pink in age, the midvein 

 purplish ; anthers red, orange, or yellow turning dark-purple in age. 



Bluffs along the coast, Upper Sonoran Zone; San Luis Obispo County to San Diego, California. May-June. 



7. GORMANIA Britt Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 3:29. 1903. 



Low succulent perennial plants, with horizontal rootstocks. Leaves fleshy, spatulate, 

 obovate or nearly orbicular, the stem leaves similar to the basal but smaller. Inflorescence 

 cymose or thyrsoid. Calyx usually deeply 5-lobed, the lobes acute or obtuse. Corolla 

 yellow or red, the lobes 5, united below the middle, somewhat spreading above. Stamens 



2201 



2202 



2204 



2201. Stylophyllum Orcuttii 



2202. Hasseanthus elongatus 



2205 



2203. Hasseanthus variegatus 



2204. Hasseanthus Blochmaniae 



2206 



2205. Gormania Watsonii 



2206. Gormania obtusata 



