114 Alhany Miitunim ReanrTs:^ 



On some new and some little Irnown species of Soufh Africara 

 plants. -It. 



By I>R. S. SCH()NLANI>. 



C/vissufa Knhniiy Schonl, n. sp. — A small shiirblet, 8-12 cm, 

 high. Stem usually much branched from the base. Older 

 l)ranches efoliate, ultimate branches with 8-10 pairs of closely set 

 leaves, leafy portion about 2.5 cm. long, internodes about 2.5 mm. 

 long. Leaves glaucous, slightly connate at base, glabrous, 

 oblong, acuminate, very convex on the back, nearly flat inside,, 

 lowest 11 mm long, upper gradually smaller. Inflorescence 

 terminal, pedunculate, subcapitate. few-flowered. Peduncle 

 slender, 5-5.5 cm. long, provided with 3-1 pairs of depauperated 

 leaves. Flowers shortly pedicellate, bracts and bracteoles 

 toothlike. Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, c. 2 mm. long, connected at 

 the base, rounded on the back, yellowish white. Petals nearly 

 free, su1)erect, oblong, 6 mm. long, creamy-white, with the barest 

 indication of a rounded "mucro" behind the apex. Stamens, 

 slightly smaller than the petals, filaments filiform, white, anthers 

 blackish-brown, ovate. Carpels nearly as long as the stamens, 

 ovaries suboblong, almost straight along the inner margin, style 

 subulate, sharply defined, but only 1 mm. long, stigma distinct, 

 squamae very small, broader than long, deeply emarginate above. 



Western or Central Karroo ? Contributed by Mr. A. Kuhn, 

 May 19();5. 



This species is allied to Cr. Harveyi, Britt. et. Bak. fil. (Cr. 

 alpetris, Harv. [non Thunb]). It is easily distinguished by its 

 style, calyx-lobes, length of peduncle. 



Crassula corymbulosa, Link. — ^At least 4 well marked 

 varieties which remain constant under cultivation, can 1)e 

 distinguished. They die down every year to the base of the stem 

 and shoot out again from the lowest nodes which take root (in the 

 same manner in which Cr. stachyera^ Cr. Turrita &c., persist 

 from year to year). In addition to this mode of vegetative re- 



