Crassula.] l. crassulace^: (britten). 389 



Hb. Schimp. Abyss. C. puberula, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. (name 



only). 

 Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountains, 6000-10,000 ft., Mann I 

 Nile Land, Mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper ! Dillon! Both! ParJeyns ! Salt ! 

 Lower Guinea. Angola, Pungo Andongo, and Benguela, Huilla, Dr. Welwitschf 

 Very variable in size. C. Mannii is a short stout form, with smaller flowers than 



the type. C. puberula is a short slender form with narrow leaves, but does not appear 



specifically distinct. 



2. C. globularioid.es, Britten. Rhizome thick, creeping", emitting 

 short leafy shoots barren or bearing" peduncles ; barren shoots termi- 

 nating in a rosette of leaves. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, sometimes 

 almost orbicular, J in. long or rather more, on flowering shoots oppo- 

 site, connate, internodes scarcely perceptible ; fleshy, glabrous, obtuse, 

 closely fringed with white membranous deflexed teeth. Scape papil r 

 lose, simple, 2—3 in. high, with two pairs of connate, lanceolate, obtuse 

 or subacute bracts, fringed like the leaves, one pair near the base, the 

 other shortly below the inflorescence. Flowers in compact, rounded, 

 terminal cymes, or in subdense forking panicles, very shortly pedicel- 

 late. Bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Calyx aboul 1 line long, fringed 

 like the leaves, segments lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla twice as long as 

 the calyx, petals free or scarcely united at the base, thick; ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, ascending, slightly spreading. Carpels dark, ovate, 

 acuminate. Squamulae minute. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesia, Mount Chiradzura, Dr. Heller 1 



3. C. sediformis, Schweinf. Flora jEthiop. 80. " Herbaceous, stem 

 J— 2 in. high, bialate ; leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, 4-5 millimetres 

 long ; calyx-segments triangular, rather obtuse ; petals broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, white or blue at the base, a little longer than the sepals. 

 Habit of Sedum cceruleum, Vahl. — Crassularia sediformis, Hochst. in 

 Buchinger's Verzeichniss, No. 126." 



Nile Land. Mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper. 

 Description from Schweinf urth. 



3. BRYOPHYLLUM, Salisb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 658. 



Calyx inflated, cylindrical or tetragonous, shortly 4-fid, valvate. 

 Corolla urceolate or subcampanulate, the limb shortly 4-fid, spreading. 

 Stamens 8, in two rows, inserted in the middle of the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, shortly exserted. Scales free or ad- 

 nate to the carpels. Carpels 4, free, or connate at the base, elongate, nar- 

 rowed into elongated, connivent, exserted styles,with capitellate stigmas; 

 ovules in each carpel numerous. ' Follicles 4, many-seeded. — Tall, stout, 

 fleshy herbs, shrubby at the base. Leaves opposite, petiolate, simple 

 or unequally pinnate, crenate. Flowers rather large, nodding, in 

 many-flowered paniculate cymes, greenish-white or red ; branches of 

 the panicle opposite. 



