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SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES OF 
Height of plant 6 — 8 cm. Lower internodes about 15 cm. long, 
upper gradually smaller. Leaves up to 1 cm. long. Pedicels 
1'2 — 2‘4 cm. long. Petals about 2 mm. long. 
Distinguished from its allies by its diffuse slender habit and the 
long slender pedicels. 
Rocky shore near Camps Bay, Wolley Dod, 3369 ; on rocks at 
1500 ft. on Lion’s Head, Wolley Dod, 3676 ; Signal Hill, Cape Town, 
Wilms, 3252; near Hopefield, Malmesbury distr., Ulbrich, 2184 ; on 
hills near l’Aus, 2400 ft, Schlechter, 11213. 
In Schlechter’s specimens the leaves, pedicels and flowers are 
somewhat smaller than in the type, but the details of floral structure 
are otherwise the same. 
10. Grassula oblanceolata, Schonl. et Bak. HI. in Journ. of Bot. xxxvi (1898), 
365. (Plate ill, fig. 10). 
Annua radice filiformi. Cuules multi ex eadem radice orti ad- 
scendentes ramosi. Folia oblanceolata vel oblongo-obovata sessilia 
plerumque patentia obtusiuscula basi cuneata quam internodia 
breviora. Flores pentameri axillares et terminates, pedicellis brevi- 
bus filiformibus. Sepala oblonga obtusa corollam subaequantia. Petala 
oblongo-ovata subacuta alba. Stamina quam petala breviora fila- 
mentis subulatis apice constrictis antheris late ovatis. Ovaria oblique 
obovata. Stili breviter subulati. Squamae e basi cuneatae abrupte 
et latissime sed breviter transversim dilatatae. 
Branches 3 — 4 cm. long. Leaves 5 — 7 mm. long. Petals about 
1'5 mm. long. 
Kareebergen, alt. 1800 ft, Schlechter, 8306. 
A plant found by Wilms (3198) “ on the roof of our backroom at 
Capetown ” appears to be the same species. 
1 1 . Grassula Lavibertiana, Schonl. et Bak. fil. in Journ. of Bot. xxxvi ( 1 8 7 1 ), 3 7 1 . 
Annua diffusa glabra. Caulis dichotome ramosus subpellucidus 
filiformis sparse foliosus internodiis quam folia longioribus vel superi- 
oribus brevioribus. Folia plana (?) obovata lanceolata basi attenuata 
subpetiolata. Flores tetrameri vel rare pentameri in ramulis terminales 
pedicellis tenuissimis. Sepala oblongo-obovata basi breviter connata. 
Petala roseo-albida ovata obtusa quam sepala breviora. Stamina 
petalis subaequilonga filamentis linearibus apice constrictis antheris 
late ovatis. Carpidia petalis subaequilonga ovariis 5 — 6 ovulatis stiffs 
brevibus. Squamae quam carpella triplo breviores e basi lineari 
sursum dilatatae rotundatae. 
Height of plant 3 — 6 cm. Lower internodes up to 2 cm. long. 
Leaves 1 — 2 cm. long. Pedicels of lower flowers 1'3 cm. long, of 
