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pea staminaque quam petala cise ne sessilibus. 
Squame vix ‘5 mm. longe, apice emargin 
Hab. Se nimland, E. G. Alston. Sonared: in Grahamstown, 
May-Sept. 1899. 
“Mode of growth same as in C. deltoidea, but owing to the shape 
of the leaves being different, the leaf-covered stem has not the 
ame co t appearance as in C. deltoidea, and only four or five 
leaf pairs all — the oaks ones shrivelling up at an early stage 
Pedunele ere . in diameter, minutely papillose —_ 
C. mesembrianthoides. Corolla dull white, almost aylindiights ‘a on 
lobes are not recurved; lobes ovate. Carpels 2 mm. long, ‘75 mm. 
broad at the broadest part. pte sessile. 
elegans, sp. nov. ad C. deltoideam Thunb. accedens. Caulis 
dense foliatus. Folia suborbicularia imbricata carnosa pallide 
viridia eae superne apicem versus applanata ad basin excavata, 
sepissime c. 1:0 cm. longa. Pedunculus brevis subglaber. Bractew 
ar Ss oaike. ais quam FS vix duplo brevior, calycis lobi 
dorso tenuiter papillati. ro alba recurva ovata vel oblongo- 
ovata mucronulata, c. 2°5 . longa. Stamina quam petala 
breviora. Squame ut i in selec eribus 
Hab. ae E, G. Alston, Oct. 1897. Flowered in Grahams- 
town, Dec. 1897. 
Not so hie as C. deltoidea and C. deceptor, and much more 
branched, but otherwise z similar r growth. Pedun cle rather short, 
pistils, and s squame very pe as in allie VS, " Sometimes 
the peduncle is about 1°5 cm. long and inflorescence 50 omewhat 
compact, at other times it is is tones (8-4 cm.) and inflorescence 
much laxer. 
The following table of the cl ters which differentiate these five 
species of Crassula may be of service. They all agree in — 
re all more 
length of the leaf-covered portion of the stem are only provisional, 
and rc rv aoe Meech Somme and will potas” have 
ne 0. 
has hitherto been united in t eit gro up Imbricata. C. ert oides as 
its nearest allies among the g Subulares, whereas 0. relies 
and its allies should be placed at the end of the sect. Eucrassuldy 
leading to the sect. Glob 
de Keissler ‘ee "recently described another species, ¢ 
mucronata,* which he places in Harvey’s group Meader but this 
species has no close affinity with C. deltoidea and its etic 
* Ann. K.K. Nat. Hof Mundin 1900, p. 37. 
