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Crassula of Linnaeus, which have recently been discovered in 

 the wilds of Southern Africa, and sent to the Royal Gardens 

 of Kew by one of His Majesty's most successful botanic col- 

 lectors, Mr. Bowie, whose enterprising spirit has not only de- 

 tected, but successfully forwarded to those rich gardens in a 

 living state, more succulent plants than any individual now 

 existing. 



Another new succulent plant allied to Aloe, I have called 

 Boxviea africana ,• thus endeavouring to hand down the name 

 of this meritorious discoverer, in one of the African plants which 

 he alone has found, to the botanists and travellers of future 

 days ; a compliment he well deserves and has so arduously 

 earned. Of this new genus, now blooming for the first time in 

 Europe in our gracious Sovereign's delightful collections at 

 Kew, I hope to be able to send you a complete description 

 for your next Magazine, favoured, as I have ever been in my 

 endeavours to advance the investigation of the succulent plants, 

 by my kind friend W. T. Aiton, Esq., the able conductor of 

 those celebrated gardens. 



And I remain, gentlemen, 



With respectful esteem, 



Your most obedient servant, 

 Chelsea, Sept. 1824. A . H , Ha worth. 



Classis et Ordo. Pentandria Pentagynia. 



Kalosanthes Nob. in Revis. PI. Succ. p. 6. — Dietrichia Tratt. 

 Arch. d. Gewiichsk. n. 449. — Crassula Linn. fyc. 



Inflorescentia involucratim subcapitata. Corolla 5- 

 fida, infundibuliformis, laciniis tubo triplo brevioribus. 

 Caetera ut in Larochea genere, Crassulave. 



Plantae Africanae valde succulenta3, foliis opposite de- 

 cussatis. 



biconvcxa. K. (convex-leaved) foliis angustioribus linearibus 

 1. supra subtusque distincte connexis. Florcbat Julio 

 A.D. 1824, in Regio Horto Kewense. G. H. ^ . 



Obs. Affinibus minor, in omnibus atque graci- 

 lior, foliorum marginibus cartilagineo-asperiusculis. 

 Flores emortuos post florescentiam duos insuper vivam 

 plantam solum vidi terminales alteque tubatos (affinium 

 more), tubo calyce duplo longiore. Styli in sicco (an 

 semper ?) nsque ad apices quasi coadunati. 



Prope Crassulam oapitatatn Lamarckii, inEnc.Melh. 



(qua; bona species) locanda, sed duplo plusve minor 



quam ilia. 



Obs. In the year 1821 I published the genus Kalosan- 



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