. Dansk botanisk arkiv. Plants; Plants -- Denmark. C. H. Ostenfeld: Contributions to West Australian Botany. II. 41 Bentham, Fl. Austral. II (1864) 457; J. M. Black, in Transact. R. Soc, S. Austr. XL (1916) 63. Seems to be fairly distributed in damp places in the neigh- bourhood of Perth. Specimens were collected at Mundaring Weir (No. 363, 13. Sept. 1914), in several places around Armadale (Nos. 358, 359, 362, 20. Sept. 1914) and in the vicinity of Perth (No. 1349, Mrs. M. Davis, 1915). They were in flower and with ripe fruits in September. Often they are more or less red- coloured, especiall
. Dansk botanisk arkiv. Plants; Plants -- Denmark. C. H. Ostenfeld: Contributions to West Australian Botany. II. 41 Bentham, Fl. Austral. II (1864) 457; J. M. Black, in Transact. R. Soc, S. Austr. XL (1916) 63. Seems to be fairly distributed in damp places in the neigh- bourhood of Perth. Specimens were collected at Mundaring Weir (No. 363, 13. Sept. 1914), in several places around Armadale (Nos. 358, 359, 362, 20. Sept. 1914) and in the vicinity of Perth (No. 1349, Mrs. M. Davis, 1915). They were in flower and with ripe fruits in September. Often they are more or less red- coloured, especially the sepals and carpels. The species was first re- corded for W. A. by Diels and Pritzel. It was originally de- scribed from Tasmania, and is, according to F. v. Müller (Sec. Census, 84), further found in N. S. Wales, Victoria and S. Australia. From Hooker's descrip- tion it appears that the original Tasmanian plant has ciliated sepals. All the West Australian have no trace of ciliation, and may be worth giving a varietal name (var. nov. nuda: sepala nuda, non ciliata). Bentham (1. c.) mentions the sepals as "sometimes, but not always, ciliate". I have had it in cultiva- tion (in 1917) from seeds taken from plants collected by Mrs. Davis in 1915 (No. 1349). When flowering it has a strong honey- smell. The cultivated specimens, one or which is drawn (fig. 11), grow to a size of ca. 10 cm, and are somewhat more elongated than the spontaneous ones. The leaves are oblong-linear, semi- terete, acute or acuminate. The flowers are usually 4-merous, larger than in other species; they open when full-grown, the green sepals and white petals spreading (diameter about 3 mm); often the petals, which are about as long as the sepals, have pink-. Fig. 11. Crassula macrantha (Hook, f.) Diels et Pritzel, var. nuda nov. var. Cultivated specimen. (Nat. size). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - col
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