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tosa, and the leaves are different, the base in the present species 

 gradually tapering to the petiole and not rounded. The flowers are 

 in a terminal trichotomously branched cyme ; the petals narrow and 

 acuminate, and smaller than in C. sarmentosa. It is also allied to 

 C. cyclophylla Schoul. & Bak. fil. It differs from this species 

 markedly in the shape of the lamina of the leaves. 



C. hirsuta, sp. nov. Kadix fibrosa, annua. Caulis filiformis, 



volubilis, erectus vel adscendens, teretiusculus, pubescens, ramosus, 

 4-7 cm. longus. Eami nunc erecto-patentes, nunc adscendentes, 

 teretes, subbrunnei vel rubescentes. Folia lanceolata vel lineari- 

 lanceolata, hirsuta, acuta, sessilia, 4-8 mm. longa. Flores minuti, 

 pentameri, cymoso-paniculati, interdum axillis dichotomis floriferis, 

 omnes breviter pedicellati. Calycis lobi oblongi, obtusi, hirsuti, 

 vix 1 mm. longi. Petala + '75 mm. longa, subovata, basi connata. 

 Ovarium papillosum, oblique ovatum, stylis subulatis, brevibus, 

 squamis spathulatis. 



Hab. Messklip, on hills, alt. 2000 ft. ; E. ScJilechter. No. 11283. 

 In flower Sept. 16, 1897. 



This plant belongs to the Glome^'atm, and is allied to C. glabra 

 Haworth, a type of which exists in the National Herbarium at 

 South Kensington. The future monographer of this group will find 

 that the question of the identity of Crassula muscosa Linn. PI. Afr. 

 Ear. 10 (1760), with C. glabra Haworth will have to be considered, 

 C. muscosa L. is of course much the earlier ; the only specimens 

 we have seen bearing this name are in the Sherardian Herbarium, 

 Oxford.* C. glomerata Berg, Descr. PI. 85 & 86 (1767), will also 

 require attention, as one of the plants on which this is founded is 

 in Plukenet's Herbarium, and is C. decumbens E. & Z. C. hirsuta 

 seems easily distinguishable from the other members of this group 

 — one very obvious character being the character of the indumentum. 



C. oblanceolata, sp.nov. Annua. Eadix filiformis descendens. 

 Caules multi ex eadem radice orti, adscendentes, herbacei, ssepe 

 trichotomi, ramosi. Folia oblanceolata vel oblongo-obovata, 5-7 mm. 

 longa, sessilia, margine integra, plerumque patentia, opposita, ob- 

 tusiuscula, basi cuneata. Flores pentameri, axillares et terminales, 

 pedicellis filiformibus. Sepala obtusa, oblonga, corollam sub- 

 sequantia. Petala oblongo-ovata, subacuta, circiter 1-5 mm. longa, 

 alba. Stamina petalis breviora. Styli breviter subulati, squamis 

 e basi cuneata abrupte et latissime sed breviter transversim dilatatis. 



Hab. Kareebergen, alt. 1800 ft. ; R, Schlechter, No. 8306. In 

 flower July 24, 1896. 



This plant belongs to the GlomeratcB, and has been referred to 

 C. albicaulis Harvey ; but we have compared it with the type in 

 Harvey's Herbarium, and it is quite distinct. It is a much more 

 slender plant than C. albicaulis^ but, like that species, it has many 



* In the original description of G. muscosa L., Ficoides africana annua 

 minima muscosa, Hermann, Par. 170, is quoted as a synonym. The value of 

 the Sherardian specimen is perhaps not apparent until one remembers that 

 Hermann's Paradisus Batavus was a posthumous work, and was edited with a 

 preface by W. Sherard. 



