372 NEW SPECIES OF CRASSULA. 



Petala basi parum connata, circiter 2 mm. longa, ovato-lanceolata. 

 Ovaria oblique ovata, sty lis subulatis, squamis incudiformibus. 



Hab. Matroosberg ; Marloth, No. 1999. 



Allied to C. alpina Endliciier. 



C. Dodii, sp. nov. Annua radice tenuissima descendente. 

 Caules plures ex eadem radice orti, adscendentes, filiformes sub- 

 simplex vel parum ramosi, 2-3 cm. longi. Folia radicalia spathu- 

 lata vel ovata, caulina spathulata vel oblanceolata, membranacea, 

 apice obtusa, basi + gradatim in petiolum attenuata, margine 

 Integra cum petiolis 4-8 mm. louga, internodiis breviora. Flores 

 pentameri caulium apices versus + aggregati, pedunculi pedi- 

 cellique gracillimi. Sepala ovata vel oblongo-ovata. Petala ob- 

 longo-ovata, 1*5 mm. loiiga. Carpella oblique obovata, stylis 

 brevibus, tenuibus, squamis apicem versum dilatatis, apice truncatis. 



Hab. Vanrhynsdorp, on bills, alt. 300 ft. ; R. Schlechter, 

 No. 10994. In flower and fruit Aug. 26, 1897. 



Named in honour of Capt. Wolley Dod, who has recently made 

 considerable collections at the Cape. 



There seems some confusion in regard to Bulliarda brevifolia 

 E. & Z. in Harvey & Sonder, Fl. Cap. (ii. 330). There are certainly 

 two plants under this name in Harvey's Herbarium, the true 

 plant of Ecklon and Zeyher, and a plant represented by Wright, 

 No. 549, from Simons Bay, which is either identical with or very 

 closely allied to 0. Dodii. The present species is a slender flliform- 

 stemmed little annual, difl'eriug in both leaves and flowers from 

 B. brevi/olia E. & Z. 



C. nana, sp. nov. Omnium specierum hucusque cognitarum 

 haec est minutissima. Eadix brevis tenuissima descendens. Planta 

 vix 1 cm. alta. Folia obovata, 3 mm. louga, crassiuscula, caulina 

 late obovata, basi angustata. Dichasium pauciflorum subumbel- 

 latum. Bracteffi foliis similes, inferiores vix minores. Flores 

 tetrameri. Sepala oblongo-obovata, dorso pubescentia. Petala 

 triangularia. Sepala petalaque circiter 1 mm. longa. Carpella 

 oblique ovata, stylis brevibus tenuibus, squamis spathulatis. 



Hab. Zuur Fontein, alt. 150 ft.; R. Schlechter, No. 8560. In 

 flower and fruit Aug. 17, 1896. 



This interesting little plant is, so far as we know, the smallest 

 representative of the genus. The sepals and petals are approxi- 

 mately the same length, the sepals being dorsally pubescent and 

 blunt. It is allied to C. a^nna Endlicher (= Bulliarda alpina 

 E. & Z.). 



C. PEPLoiDEs Harvey, Fl. Cap. ii. 355. The following notes are 

 from a plant received in June, 1897, from Mr. J. R. Sim, and col- 

 lected on the Windvogelberg, near Cathcart ; it was grown at 

 Grahamstown, and flowered in December, 1897. The leaves agreed 

 at first with the description, but under cultivation became longer 

 than in the type (length 17 mm. as against 11 mm.). The stem is 

 very pale, almost white, nearly terete, with two opposite shallow 

 grooves just above each pair of leaves; leaves slightly lounded on 

 back, almost flat above, also with shahow median grooves both 



