PLATE 326. 



CRASSULA MDLTIOAVA, LEM. (Illustr. Hortic. IX. (1861) Misc. 40.) 

 Natural Order, CEASSULAOBJI. 



A fleshy undershrub bearing numerous many-flowered cymes of white flowers. 

 Stems erect or ascending, fleshy, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate to 

 sub-rotund, concave, thick and fleshy, margins quite entire, obtuse at apex, tapering 

 at base to the short petiole, both surfaces thickly covered with minute pustules, 

 which on the upper surface are depressed, on the lower one very slightly raised ; 

 1^ to 3 inches long; 1 to 2 inches wide; petioles connate in a ring, channelled 

 above ; ^ to J inch long. Inflorescence cymoso- paniculate, frequently, but not 

 always trichotomous, with a small oblong brnct at each fork, the lower branches 

 of the inflorescence elongated, terete, glabrous ; pedicels 1 to 2-lines long. Calyx 

 gamosepalous, 5-lobed, small, tube conical, lobes triangular, reaching to the 

 apparent sinuses of the corolla. Corolla of 5 lanceolate, spreading white petals ; 

 3 lines long, 1 line wide Stamens 5, alternate with petals, and shorter than them ; 

 filaments filiform, white ; anthers small, ovate, 2-celled, basi-fixed, brown when 

 ripe. Carpels 5, tapering upwards to a filiform style. Squamae 5, oblong, wider 

 upwards. Ovules covered with minute prominences. 



Habitat : NATAL : Inanda ; 1800 feet alt., June, Wood No. 597s. 



Drawn and described from specimens brought from Upper Umkomaas, and 

 grown in Botanic Garden, Durban. 



A plant well worth cultivation, and very suitable for rock work, the flowers 

 are not large, but are borne in great profusion, and are pure white. It has no 

 uses so far as known to us, and the natives know it only as in-Telezi. 



Fig. 1 , calyx ; 2, two corolla lobes and two stamens ; 3, calyx ; 4, a single 

 carpel , 5, ovule ; all enlarged. 



