300 
1°5 mm. latis, antico ovato 5 mm. longo 4 mm. lato apice leviter 
bifido. Petala 5, inter se aequalia, recurva, oblongo- vel Sane 
lato-linearia, apice obtusa, usque a em. longa et 3 mm. lata, 
in pagina utraque unguis parte inferiore excepta puberula. nae 
4, filamentis 8 mm. longis inferne latioribus complanatis et puberu- 
lis superne subulatis et glabris, antheris 1-5 mm. longis. iscus 
posticus, 1 mm, altus, truncatus, glaber. Gynoecium leviter 
obliquum, 8 mm. altum, 15 mm. diametro, adpresse pilosum ; 
stigma globosum, fere 1 mm, diametro. Fructus globosus, 2°5 cm. 
diametro, valvis dorso dense echinatis, processubus triangularibus 
obtusis. 
Sourm Arrica: Transvaal, Saddelback Mountain, near Bar- 
berton, Thorncroft 817 
1453. Crassula erosula, N. FE. Brown [Crassulaceae];  affinis 
C. canescenti, R. x sed foliis glabris eciliatis facile distinguitur. 
Herba perennis, succulenta, subacaulis vel in cultura internodiis 
0°4-2°4 em. longis. /olia opposita, decussata, arcte approximata, 
patula, carnosa, 1°3-3°5 cm. longa, 7-9 mm. lata, 2°5-7 mm. crassa 
vel in culturis 2-6 cm. longa, 5-8 mm. lata et 2-5 mm. crassa, 
sessilia, basi leviter connata, subobovata, lanceolata vel lineari- 
lanceolata, acuta vel subobtusa, supra plana vel leviter convexa, 
subtus valde convexa, minute Wipriaepuitetata. glabra, absque 
ciliis, viridia nec glauca. Pedunculus usque ad 21 cm. altus, 
bractearum sterilium 4 paribus instructus, inferne glaber, ad 
apicem minutissime puberulus. lores sessiles, in cymas capituli- 
formes 0°8-1 cm. diametro axillares et terminales sessiles vel 
breviter pleniulates dense congesti. Bracteae folia reducta 
simulantes, 4-8 mm. longae, Tanceolatar, acutae, superiores minu- 
tissime subpuberulae. Se mm. longa, lineari-oblonga, 
subacuta, minute ilies inte. viridia. 13 ala conniventi- 
erecta, basi breviter connata, 3°5 mm. longa, 1°5—-1°8 mm. lata, 
imbricata, obovata, obtusa, minutissime eroso-denticulata, dorso 
pone apicem apiculo oblongo crasso-carnoso obtuso instructa, 
glabra, alba, Stamina inclusa, glabra ; filamenta alba; antherac 
luteae. Glandulae hypogynae “eueatae, truncatae, aurantiacae. - 
Carpella lanceolata, in stylum brevissimum attenuata, glabra. 
Sourn Arrica. Little Tactarhdalanal, on gravel slopes in 
Doornpoort. Ravine, Pearson 6153. 
Described from a living plant collected by Prof. Pearson during 
the Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to the Orange River in 
hein and sent by him to Kew, where it flowered in March, 
1454. Cotyledon neue N. E. Brown ie ceca ; affinis 
C. glutinosae, Schénl., sed foliis duplo brevi s et latioribus 
_subteretibus conspicue mucronatis et pilis amen glanduloso- 
capitatis obtectis differt 
erba_perennis, succulenta, ubique (praeter partem corollae in- 
teriorem) pilis oe glanduloso-capitatis conspersa. Caules erecti, 
4-6 em. alti, basi vel superne ramosi, 2-3 mm. crassi, apice foliiferi, 
inferne nudi, brunnei vel rubro-tincti, Folia opposita, in paria 3-4 
conferta, sessilia, 1-2°5 em. longa, 5-7 mm. lata, 3-6 mm. crassa, 
subteretia vel passim clavata, obtusa vel subacuta, distinetissime 
