SoufJi African Grasses. 117 



«liape of leaves and indument, mode of bi-hinching, inflorescence, 

 •tl'c). I append a few notes taken from live specimens received 

 from Miss Xicol ■-. A weak, straggling herb, rooting at the nodes, 

 internodes in the main stem about 3 cm. long, stem subterete, 

 pubescent, leaves ovate acute, on an average about 15 mm. long, 

 «ubconnate or shortly petioled, thinly pubescent, minutely 

 l)apillose on the margin. Flowers on filiform pubescent pedicels 

 in tei-minal umbels, pedicels 5 mm. long (8 toll* mm. long in Sim's 

 specimens). Sepals lanceolate, f the length of petals, keeled, sul)- 

 glabrous (setose along the keel in some of Sim's specimens) with 

 green centre and hj^aline margin, petals broadly ovate, acute, 

 minutely apiculate, l.;") mm. long, white with a faint stripe of 

 gi-een from the apex downwards to tiie middle ; stamens about 

 the length of the sepals, filaments filiform, white, anthers creamy- 

 white, carpels about as long as the petals, ovaries obliquely ovate, 

 white with greenish base, minutely serrate in the median line 

 dorsally, styles subulate, white, nearly as long as the ovaries, 

 squamae minute, thin, white, obcordate, broader than long. 



Crassiila Dichii, SchonL n. sp, — A small glabrous herb : stem 

 simple or branched, bearing 2 pairs of foliage leaves. Leaves 

 purpurascent, spreading, or erecto-patent, petioled, membranous, 

 lamina reniform, 5 to 9 mm. bi-oad, either quite entire or with 

 crenate margin, petiole about twice the length of the lamina 

 (up to 9 mm.). Inflorescence terminal, cjmose, repeatedly branched, 

 first pedicels 4 to 5 mm. long, others much smaller. Flowers 

 reddish-white, sepals connate nearly half their length, lobes ovate, 

 blunt, c. \ mm. long. Petals broadly ovate, c. 2 mm. long. 

 Stamens and carpels about the length of the petals. Filaments 

 slender, anthei-s with broad connective. Styles subulate, a little 

 shorter than the ovaries, squamae very small, broadly obovate- 

 cuneate. 



"■ Clanwilliam, Oedarberge, in rupestribus umbrosis, alt. 1170 

 m.," Diels, No. IIGI. 



Cr, Diehii is allied to Cr. Pronioutoi-ii, Schtinl. et. Bak. fll.. 

 but differs from it in size and several details of floral structure. 



Grassula clavifoiia,!^. Mey., var. marginata, Schtinl. n. var. — 

 Margin of the leaves minutely papillose-ciliate, peduncle minutely 

 pubescent. 



Montagu, alt. 300 m., Dr. R. Marh.th, Xo. 3239, Oct. 1903. 

 Crassida namaqwtms, Schonl. et Bak. fll, var. hftea, SclKud. 



