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This species resembles and is allied to Crassula lactea, Ait., from 

 which, however, it differs in the shape of the inflorescence, and 

 especially in floral structure. 



2. G. Pearsoni, Schonl. nom. now ( = CY. brevifolia, Harw, in 

 Flora Capensis, ii., p. 339). 



Little Namaqualand. " Eichtersveld ; Dense bushes, 9-12 in. On 

 quartzite above Brakwater pools at the head of Hell's Kloof, 6089 ; 

 31.12.10." 



To this species may also belong a scrap collected at " Alewyn's 

 Fontein, 2,900 ft., in sand, 3496; 22.12.08." 



Harvey's name has to be dropped if, as I think, the genus 

 Bulliarda should be included in Crassula. Bulliarda brevifolia, 

 E. et Z., should then be called Crassula brevifolia (E. et Z.), Schonl. 



I have before me Zeyher 661, on which Harvey's species was 

 founded. His description is hardly adequate. The following notes, 

 taken from live specimens collected at Springbokfontein, Namaqua- 

 land, and Pearson 6089, will supplement and in parts correct it. 



A small subdichotomously richly branched shrub about 30 cm. high. 

 Leaves connato-perfoliate, obliquely obovate, subsemiterete, flat in- 

 side, subcarinate on outer surface, circ. 1 cm. long. Inflorescence laxly 

 few-flowered cymoso-corymbosa subpedunculate, the foliage usually 

 passing gradually into bracts. Flowers with a pronounced, not at 

 all pleasant honey-smell, pedicellate, pedicels circ. 3 mm. long. 

 Sepals green with red tip, connate, rather thin, circ. 1*5 mm. long, 

 lobes circ. 1 mm. long, subobovate obtuse, convex on the outside. 

 Petals creamy-white or yellowish, oblong, carinate, obtuse, erecto- 

 patent or even strongly recurved at the tip, with or without a small 

 mucro behind the apex, connate at the base, 3 - 25 mm. long. Stamens 

 attached to the short corolla-tube, about three-fourths the length of 

 the petals. Filaments white, subulate, anthers ovate, pollen yellow. 

 Carpels greenish, about the length of the stamens, ovaries gradually 

 passing into the short, slightly recurved styles, minutely scabrous 

 all over and minutely ciliate along inner margin. Squamae mem- 

 branous, broadly obcuneate, slightly rounded off at the apex. 



3. C. HacOicaniana, Schonl. et Bak. fil., in Journ. of Bot., 1898, 

 p. 361. 



" Little Namaqualand. Shrub, 1 ft. Crevices in Plaatklip, 3051." 

 "Bush, 1 ft. Krantz in pass leading from Springbok to O'okiep, 

 5966 ; 16.12.08." 



