PLATE 389. 
CRASSULA STACHYERA, EH. & Z. (FI. Cap. Vol. IL, p. 543.) 
Natural Order, CRASSULAOBA. 
An erect plant 6 to 12 inches or more high. Stems herbaceous, simple 
or more or less branched at the base, thickly clothed with stiff white hairs, 
usually leafy to base. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, sessile, usually densely 
clustered at base of stem, the distinct pairs clothing the stem from base to apex ; 
ovate to oblong or subrotund, quite entire, glabrous or subglabrous on the surfaces, 
and conspicuously ciliate with stiff white and commonly reversed bristles, occa- 
sionally with a few similar bristles at base of leaf ; varying much in size in different 
specimens (from 3 to 6 lines in our specimens). Inflorescence cymose, the cymules 
terminal, few flowered. Calyx 5-parted nearly to base, the lobes acuminate, erect; 
bracts small, ciliolate like the leaves. Corolla gamopetalous, 5-lobed, the lobes 
free almost to base, subspathulate, white. Stamens 5, a little shorter than the 
corolla; anthers 2-celled. Squamae minute, broadly truncate. Carpels 5, styles 
subulate. 
Habitat: Narau: Rovelo Hills, Dr. Sutherland; near Botha’s Hill Railway 
Station, 2500 feet alt, Wood, 4629; Inanda, 2000 feet alt, March, Wood, 977; 
Impendhle, March, Wylie. 
This plant is not uncommon in the Colony, and is usually found in rocky places 
and under shade. Jn the Flora Capensis there appears to be some confusion as to 
the species ; the leaves are said to be albo-hirsute, which is not the case with any 
of our specimens, also that the inflorescence is disposed “either in a long leafy 
spike, or interruptedly corymbose.” This is not so in any of our specimens which 
have been examined and verified by Dr. 8. Schonland, F.L.S., and none of our 
specimens have leaves so large as those described in the Flora Capensis. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, calyx; 8, portion of corolla opened; 4, a stamen; 5, 
carpels ; 6, a squama; all enlarged. 
