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Described and figured from a specimen gathered by Mr. M. S. Evans on the 

 Berea, May, 1896. 



Fig. 1, end of branch, about two-thirds natural size ; 2, Flower ; 3, Section of 

 flower ; 4, Staminal tube opened ; 5, Anthers, all enlarged ; 6, Fruit ; 7, Section 

 of fruit, about natural size. 



PLATE 7. 



CJIASSULA UMBRATIOOLA, N. E. Brown. 

 Natural Order CRASSCLACE/E. 



A low growing, glabrous, tuber bearing herb, from 2 to 6 inches in height. 

 Tubers 1 ^ to 2 lines long, and wide, sparsely furnished with rootlets. Stem simple, 

 erect. Leaves 6 to 8 or more, sometimes less than 6 in small specimens, chiefly 

 clustered near apex of stem, 4|- to 19 lines long including petiole, 4 to 12 lines 

 wide, opposite, petiolate, rotund, elliptical-ovate, or sub-reniform, obtuse, ed"-e 

 crenate, or creuato-dentate, cuneate at base, petiole 1^ to 8 lines long. Inflorescence 

 cymose, few flowered, peduncles terminal, slender, 6 to 18 lines Jong, pedicels 

 2 to 6 lines long, very slender, bracts minute Calyx gamosepalous, tube snort, lobes 

 5, acute, to f lines long. Petals ovato-laneeolate, acute, If to 2 lines long, 

 | to f line wide, white, hypogynous scales minute. Carpels oblique, ovoid. 



Habitat : NATAL : Drakensberg, in caves, 6 to 7000 feet altitude, January, M, S. 

 Evans, No. 362; without locality G-errard No. 1448; Van Reenen's Pass, Drakens- 

 berg, in shady ravine, 5 to 6000 feet altitude, J. M, Wood, No. 59(5 1 ; in similar- 

 situations near De Beer's Pass, 5 to 6000 feet altitude, /. M. Wood, No. 59P9; 

 Orange Free State, Cooper, No. 1081. 



This plant was first described by N. E. Brown, in Kew Bulletin for 1895, 

 page 145. 



A slender plant, delicate iu texture, and is always found in very damp places, 

 ledges of rocks, &c., &c., in deep shade. It is remarkable as being the only tuber 

 bearing Crassula known to us. 



Described and figured from Wood's, No. 5969. 



Fig. 1, Plant natural size; 2, Flower; 3, Section of flower showing Stamenig 

 and carpels ; 4, Stamen, all enlarged. 



PLATE 8. 



ALBUCA CRINIFOUA, Baker. 

 Natural Order 



The whole plant glabrous. Bulb globose or ovate. 2-3 inches in diameter, 

 lying near the surface of the ground, and green in the upper portion. Leaves 

 8-12, lorate, dark green, concave t bast 1 , upper portion flat, veins numerous, but 

 not prominent ; 1^ 3 feefc long, 1 inch wide at base, gradually tapering to an 

 acute point. Scapes one or more to the bulb, 2-4 feet long, terete, green, 

 floriferous portion 6-18 inches long, 6-20 or more flowered. Pedicels ascending, 

 the lower ones reaching 3-4 inches in length, upper gradually shorter. Bracts 

 lanceolate, lower ones 3 or more inches long, i inch wide at base, becoming gradually 

 smaller to apex of scape, concave, acute at apex, green, Perianth erect; faintly 

 scented, l\ 1^ inch long, 3 outer segments spreading, flat except at apex, which 



