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Anacanips-rros laniffrnt, Bni-ch. is represented in the Herbarium 

 of the Albany Museum by some specimens collected by Dr. 

 MacOwan amongst rocks of the mountains near Pakhuis, Clan- 

 will iam district, October 1897, alt. c. 2000', Herb. Aust. Afric. 

 no. 1807. 



Crassiila nit.da, Schonl. n. sp. A richly branched glabrous 

 shrub, sometimes S-H m, high ; stem greyish, fleshy, subterete, 

 annulate, up to 10 cm. thick below ; leaf-bearing branches about 

 8 mm. thick, internodes about 10 mm. long, getting gradually 

 smaller towards the apex ; young leaves subconnate, but separated 

 later on, obovate-spathulate, subacute, sometimes mucronulate, 

 shining green ("varnished"), sparsely punctate in the upper half 

 near the margin which is there of a reddish colour, slightly con- 

 cave on the back, slightly convex on the face, about 1 cm. long 

 and 2 cm, broad ; flowers in terminal, shortly pedunculate, sub- 

 corymbose, multiflowered cymes ; calyx-lobes deltoid, 1-5 mm. 

 long and about as broad at the base, rounded on the back and 

 separated by rounded interspaces ; petals white (or rarely faintly 

 rose-coloured), c. 7 mm. long, spreading, slightly connate at base, 

 lanceolate, dorsally behind the apex mucronate : stamens nearly 

 the size of the petals, filaments filiform, white, anthers ovate, rose- 

 coloured; carpels white, nearly the length of the stamens, style fili- 

 form, slightly shorter than the obliquely ovate ovaries, squamae very 

 small, whitish at the base rose-coloured towards the apex, slightly 

 emarginate on the top and rounded at the corners, nearly four 

 times broader than high. 



This is the common arborescent Crassida near Grahamstown, 

 where it grows (especially towards the Fish River), in dry rocky 

 situations at an altitude of from 13O0'-27()0'. It flowers in winter 

 from May onwards. 



I have myself hitherto looked upon this plant as C. portdlacea, 

 Lam., but it is, I think, sufficiently distinct. In any case if we 

 place it with Cr. portulacea we must on even better grounds unite 

 Gr. Cotyledon, L. ( = Cr. arhorescens, Willd.) with the latter, and 

 few Botanists would agree that this should be done. The follow- 

 ing key gives the most striking differences by which they may be 

 separated from one another. 



A. Flowers usually pale red, petals about 10 mm. long. 



1. Leaves broadly obovate, glaucous, copiously and con- 

 spicuously punctate above, usually about 6-5 cm. long. 



C. Cotelydon, L, 



