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SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES OF 
This species is not sufficiently known to me. There are a few 
specimens in the Berlin Herbarium marked in the usual handwriting 
on the labels of Drege’s specimens “ Crassula inanis (Th. a.) E. Mey., 
Drege, C.B. Sp.” which seem to have the obtuse sepals and petals of 
this species and otherwise agree with it, except that in fully developed 
flowers the sepals are nearly the length of the petals. Without 
practically destroying the specimens it is hardly possible to decide 
whether it really is the above species and whether it can be kept 
distinct from Gr. silvatica, Licht. 
31. Crassula peploides, Harv. in Harvey and Sonder, FI. Cap. it, 355. 
“ Perennis. Herbacea carnulosa decumbens e basi ramosa totum 
foliosa ramis brevibus ad nodos radicans. Folia connato-perfoliata 
patentia carnosa glabra oblonga obtusa. Flores parvi in cymis pauci- 
floris ex axillis foliorum superiorum et terminales. Lobi calycis ob- 
longi glabri cai-nosi petalis oblongis subaequilongis ” (ex Harv. l.c.). 
This according to Harvey is a small perennial species with the 
general aspect of Arenaria peploides. Leaves 6 — 10 mm. long, 2’4 — 
4 - 8 mm. wide. Mature corolla not seen by him. I have not seen a 
specimen. In Journ. of Bot. xxxvi (1898), 372, Mr Baker and myself 
identified with it a specimen collected by Mr T. R. Sim on the 
Windvogelsberg near Cathcart. This, I think now, was a mistake. 
32. Crassula corallina, Thunb. in Nova Acta, vi (1778), 334, Prodr. 56 and 
FI. Cap. ed. Schultes, 290; Linn. Syst. Veg. xiv, 306; L. f. Suppl. 
188; Willd. Sp. pi. I, 1549; I)C. Prodr. Ill, 188; Harvey in Harvey 
and Sonder, FI. Cap. II, 366 ; Britten and Baker f. in Journ of Bot. 
480 1 . (Plate vn, fig. 25.) 
Cr. dasyphylla, Harv. in Harvey and Sonder, FI. Cap. II, 355. 
Gr. Simiana, Schonl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xxxi (1897). 
Perennis radice fusiformi caule decumbenti valde ramoso ramis 
suberectis ramulosis fastigiatis internodiis brevibus vel brevissimis. 
Folia crassa subdistincta sessilia carnosa subellipsoidea vel subglobosa 
obtusissima apice pulverulento-alba, punctis viridibus impressis, quam 
internodia longiora. Flores pentameri in cymis terminalibus pauci- 
floris subsessiles vel pedicellati pedicellis filiformibus. Calycis lobi 
ima basi connati oblongi obtusi dorso convexi saepius extus pulve- 
imlento-albi. Petala alba sublibera erecta oblongo-ovata vel ovata 
obtusa quam sepala subduplo longiora. Stamina quam petala multo 
breviora, filamentis brevibus, antheris ovatis, stilis subulatis brevibus. 
Squamae subrectangulares apice rotundatae interdum leviter emargi- 
natae. 
1 I have already pointed out in Ann. S. A. Mus. ix, 51 that Tetraphyle corallina , E. et Z. 
has nothing to do with this species. It is Anacampscros ustulata, E. M. 
