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Crassula (Leaves opposite rarely)

Leaves opposite, rarely petiolate, often connate, fleshy, entire and cartilaginous-margined, glabrous, pubescent, or scaly. To the species described on pp. 391-2, Vol. I., the following should now be added: C. impressa (marked). fl. disposed in loose, dichotomously-branched corymbs; petals white at base, red above, free, elliptic-oblong; peduncles and pedicels glabrous. l., radical ones crowded, somewhat rosulate, oblong, linear-lanceolate, or nearly linear; cauline ones linear, opposite; all succulent, glabrous, and as well as the stems, more or less suffused with purple. Stems tufted, 2in. to 3 1/2in. long. 1886. SYN. C. Schmidti (R. G. 1225).

C. rhomboidea (rhomboid). fl. pale flesh-coloured; cymes short-stalked, terminal, few-flowered, 3/4in. to 1in. across. l. rhomboidal, hunched above the middle, sub-acute, 1/4in. to 1/2in. thick, glaucous, dotted. h. 2in. to 3in. Transvaal, 1886. Plant glabrous. Of botanical interest. C. Schmidti (Schmidt's). A synonym of C. impressa.