DESCRIPTION:--A glabrous epiphytic shrub; root-stock 1·25 m. high, about 1 cm. thick but increasing towards the top to 5 cm., furrowed transversely as in a _Dahlia_ root; rootlets fibrous; stems more or less quadrangular; ultimate branchlets 1·5 to 3 mm. thick. _Leaves_ opposite, decussate, ovate or elliptical, acute or broadly pointed at the apex, more or less narrowed at the entire base, strongly toothed or repand-dentate, fleshy, red-veined, turning black-green in the dried state, 5 to 15 cm. long, 2·5 to 9 cm. broad; petioles 1 to 5 cm. long. _Flowers_ clustered at the nodes on the branchlets, usually three together, bracteate at the base, about 4 cm. long; peduncles 1 to 3 mm. long, spreading; bract elliptic-linear, acute at both ends, about 2 cm. long, 5 mm. broad; calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 3 to 5 mm. long. _Corolla_ red; tube beset inside towards the base with stiff broad white hairs; lobes about 5 mm. long; anthers glabrous; style glabrous, slender, tapering towards the stigma. _Ovary_ ovoid-conical, glabrous; ripe berry ovoid, blunt, smooth, about 2 cm. long, 1·8 cm. broad, green; embryo about 1/3 to 3/4 of the seed in length. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2917.) PLATE 188.--Fig. 1, single flower; Fig. 2, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 3, pistil. F.P.S.A., 1925. [Illustration: 189.] PLATE 189. CRASSULA LATICEPHALA. _Cape Province._ CRASSULACEAE. CRASSULA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_, vol. i. p. 657. * * * * * =Crassula laticephala=, _Schonl. in Rec. Albany Mus._ vol. ii. p. 457. * * * * * The dwarf _Crassula_ figured on the accompanying Plate was described by Dr. S. Schonland in 1913 from a specimen collected in the Riversdale District by Mr. J. E. A. Volschenk. The species is closely allied to _C. congesta_, N.E.Br., which we figured on Plate 115, and Dr. Schonland suggests that when more material is available it might be considered a variety of the latter species. _Crassula laticephala_ is confined, so far as we know, to the Riversdale District, and there only found in the Klein Karroo. We are indebted to Dr. J. Muir of Riversdale for the specimen figured.