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rescences are frequently very loose, sometimes however capitate. The 
variations in these respects are not sufficient to distinguish even well 
characterised varieties, however much extreme forms differ from one 
another. 
It is restricted to Namaqualand and the Clanwilliam district. 
O'okiep, Magennis, Drege and Bolus, 9512 ; Eenkoberboom, Schlech- 
ter, 11066; Brakdam, Schlechter, 11119; Clanwilliam, Leipoldt in 
Herb. MacOwan, 3038, and Herb. Austr. Afr. 8458 ; Pakhuis, 
MacOwan, 3302 ; Clanwilliam, Mader in Herb. MacOwan ; Olifant’s 
valley near Clanwilliam, Diels, 359 ; Clanwilliam, E. & Z. 1856. 
10. Cr. Weissii, N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. (1908), p. 434. 
I have trot seen the original which was found by Weiss at Matjes- 
fontein. Several specimens collected by Marloth in 1902 near Laings- 
burg seem to belong to this species. 
11. Cr. Septas, Thunb. in FI. Cap., ed. Schultes (1823), p. 291; Harvey in 
FI. Cap. ii, p. 358 ; Cr. globiflora Spreng. in Syst. I, 971, ex Ind. Kew. ; 
Septas capensis Linn, in Sp. p. 489 ; Amoen. vi, 53, Syst. Yeg. xiv, 
p. 353; E. & Z. in Enum. no. 1861, p. 292; Lam. Illustr. t. 276, 
ex Harvey. 
Frequent on hill slopes in S.W. Cape Colony, especially in the 
Cape Peninsula. 
The synonymy of this species is not quite clear to me yet. There 
is very little doubt that the older authors mixed up two species 
which were rightly separated by Harvey as Cr. Saxifraga Harv. and 
Cr. Septas Thunb. These to my mind can easily be distinguished by 
their petals which in the former are erect at the base and then curve 
outwards, while in the latter they are not recurved, but both vary 
very considerably in the shape and size of their vegetative organs and 
floral parts, and it may be found by those who are in a position to 
examine series of live specimens of what we now consider Cr. Septas , 
that it must again be split into two species. It may be added that 
the specimens of Cr. Septas which I have seen had an elongated 
rhizome and no tubers. 
Mowbray Falls, Wilms, 3208, Rogers, 2447 ; round Cape Town 
and Hottentots’ Holland, E. & Z. 1861 ; Roundhouse, Campsbay, 
Scott Elliott, 1041 ; near Capetown, Sieber, 127 ; Cape Peninsula. 
Bergius, Nov. 1816; Muizenburg, MacOwan in Herb. Austr. Afr. 210; 
Frenchhoek, Schlechter, 9289; Caledon, Schlechter, 7603; Malmes- 
bury division near Hopefield and Darling, Bachmann, 96, 576, 971, 
972. 
