I^cw and liftJe hnoirn l*Iantx. 55 



2. Leaves pale-green shining or glancons, oblicinely obovato, 

 sparsely punctate above, compai'ativel^y narrower than 

 in the preceding species, about 55 cm. hmg. 



C. 2V)rtulacea, Lam. 



B. Flowers usually white, petals about 7 mm. long, young leaves 

 green, shining, very sparsely punctate within the margin? 

 3-5-4: cm. long. C. nit/da, Schonl. 



Cr. Cotyledon, L., though cultivated in Europe as far back as 1^ j^ 

 17;V.) {vide Bot. Mag. t. 3S4), is unknown in its wild state. At aU_<>i^ 

 events it seems doubtful whether E. & Z. no. 1875 from Uitenhage^-c*-- 

 can be referred to it. The plant figured by De CandoUe (Pl.!^'^. 

 Grasses t. 71') seems also to be unknown wild, but is probably^b ^^^^ 

 derived from a glaucous-leaved form which I received some time?- 

 ago from the neighbourhood of Kingwilliamstown, and to which'^ 

 Galpin no. L')33 from mountain-tops near Queenstown (alt. 4( )()()') I 

 is also to 1)6 referred. A plant from Graaff Reinet (Rattray no. d^'^ ^ 

 belongs evidently to our Cr. n'tida. 



CraftsuJa aJbanensi!^, Schonl. n. sp. Herbaceous, perennial, about 

 15 cm. high, stem simple : leaves radical, subrosulate, spreading, 

 lanceolate, .subacute, 3-(j cm. long, papillose on back and face, mai-- 

 gin cartilagineo-ciliate towards the base, papillose higher up ; 

 peduncle simple or branched, pale green, papillose, bearing 4-8 

 pairs of bracts which resemble the foliage leaves but are much 

 smaller and somewhat bi*oader and bearing in their axils capitato- 

 fasciculate sessile cymules which are as a rule shorter than the 

 bracts ; calyx nearly 2-5 mm. long, lobes broadly lanceolate, 1^ 

 mm. long, papillose on back and margin ; petals connivent, con- 

 nate at the base, oblong, concave, dorsally below the apex with a 

 globose "mucro," creamy white, 3 mm. long ;'< stamens attached to 

 the corolla-tube, about the size of the petals, filaments subulate, 

 anthers ovate ; carpels about ^ the length of the petals, ovary 

 obliquely ovate, stigma subsessile, squamae small, orange-coloured, 

 transversely oblong, emarginate above. 



Common on the Gi-ahamstown flats, especially among coai se 

 grass, alt. c. 1900'. Flowers in October. S. Schonland, no. (IK); 

 Miss M. Daly and Miss M, Sole, no. 335. 



Pei'haps even more than Cr. Tnrrifa, Thunb., this species ap- 

 proaches the subgenus Olohulea very closely, and the structure 

 of the flower in this and some allied species gives us a clue how 

 the peculiar, permanently closed flowers of GlohuJea (see Schon- 



