Our plate was prepared from plants sent by Mrs. E. Rood, Van Rhynsdorp; they flowered at the Division of Botany in 1922. DESCRIPTION:--_Rhizomes_ a deep red colour when freshly cut. _Leaves_ 5 to 6 to a plant, 16 to 23 cm. long, 1·2 to 1·8 cm. broad, long-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, narrowed below, sheathing at the base with 3 main nerves, glabrous and with ciliated margins. _Peduncle_, including the inflorescence, up to 60 cm. long, glandular-pubescent, with about 3 reduced leaves 5 cm. long, and long-acuminate from a broad base. _Inflorescence_ a lax panicle. _Bracts_ 1 to 3 cm. long, long acuminate, membranous, distinctly veined, pilose. _Pedicels_ ·6 to 1 cm. long, pilose with glandular hairs. _Outer perianth-lobes_ 1·7 cm. long, 4·5 mm. broad, oblanceolate, obtuse, many-nerved, pilose outside with glandular hairs; inner lobes 1·7 cm. long, 3·5 mm. broad, oblanceolate, obtuse, membranous, nerved, glabrous. _Filaments_ 1·2 cm. long, linear, narrowing above, membranous, with a single vein, glabrous; anthers 2·5 mm. long, oblong. _Ovary_ 2 mm. in diameter, bluntly 3-angled, very densely pilose with glandular hairs; style 1·95 cm. long, linear, glabrous; stigma simple. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2605.) PLATE 114.--Fig. 1, perianth segment; 2, stamen and single anther; 3, pistil showing side and top view of ovary. F.P.S.A., 1923. [Illustration: _115._ S. Gower del.] PLATE 115. CRASSULA CONGESTA. _Cape Province._ CRASSULACEAE. CRASSULA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. i. p. 657. =Crassula congesta=, _N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron._ 11 (1902), p. 171; _C. pachyphylla, Schonl. in Record. Albany Museum_, vol. i. (1903), pp. 59, 67. This little _Crassula_, which belongs to the section _Pryamidella_, is, as pointed out by Dr. Schonland, closely allied to _C. columnaris_, Thunb., but the shape of the leaves is sufficient to distinguish it from the latter species. It was described almost simultaneously by Mr. N. E. Brown and Dr. Schonland, but as Brown’s description was the first to be published we retain his name for the species. _Crassula congesta_ appears to be confined to the Matjesfontein and Laingsburg Divisions in the Karroo, and at present we have no records of the species outside these two Divisions. We are indebted to Mr. A. J. Austin of Matjesfontein for living specimens which flowered at the Division of Botany in July 1922.