412 ■ LIU, CRASSULACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Tillma. 



each ; free, or connate "below, narrowed upwards into the styles ; ovules many on 

 the edges of the carpels (few in Tilla^a, Triaetina and some Sedums), Follicles 

 dehiscing down the inner faces, many-seeded, or 1- few-seeded in Ttll<ea, Tri- 

 aetina and a few Sedums. Seeds alhuminous ; emhryo terete, cotyledons short— 

 DisTRiB. Species 400; spread over nearly the whole globe except Polynesia; 

 rare in Australia and South America ; abundant in South Africa ; general in 

 the northern hemisphere, 



* Stameiu as inavy as the petals^ leaves opposite (see also Cotyledon). 



Small herbs with minute axillary sessile flowers 1. Tilljea. 



Succulent herbs with flowers in a paniculate cyme 2. Cbassula. 



** Stamens twice as many as the petals, 

 + Petals connatcj at least at the hose* 



Calyx shortly 4 -fid ... 3. Bryophyixum. 



Culyx 4-partite 4. Kalanchoe. 



Calyx 5-partite 5. Cotyledok. 



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tt Petals free. 



Carpels 5-4 (rarely 3) free or slightly connate 6. Sbdum. 



Carpels 6-8 7. Sempebvivum. 



Carpels 3, connate half their length 8. Tbiactina. 



1. 



, Linn, 



Small glabrous succulent herbs, iertres opposite, entire, flat in the Indian 

 species. Flotoers minute, axillary, often fasciculate, solitary or cymose, white 

 or red. Calyx 4-5-fid. Petals 4-5, free or connate at the base. Stamens i-o. 

 lIjl)ogynous scales 4^5 or 0. Carpels 4-5, free, narrowed into short styles^"^ 

 mmute stigmas ; ovules 2 to each carpel in the Indian species. Follicles '-' 

 seeded.— DisxRiB. A genus of 20 species, widely distributed, scarcely separable 

 from Crassula, 



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1. T. pentandra, RmiU III 222 (n^me mlv) : leaves lanceolate- 



linear acute, flowers sessile 



50 



90 ; Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 886. Crassula (Bi 



Leaves i'fe "'' 



carpa) Schimperi, Fisch, ^ Mey, Ind, Sem. viii. 56. 



Subtropical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 3000-6000 ft., ft'eque 

 Dkccan Peninsula; Mysore, T. Lobb; Nilghiris, Hohenacker \ Concan. btocS'S 

 DisTHiB. Tropical Africa, Abyssinia and the Cameroons. 



Stems procumbent,hranched ; internodes shorter than the leaves. 'nlntic 



long, connate at the base. Ca/yx- segments lanceolate-acuminate, Feials ^^^^^ ' 

 acuminate, white, not exceeding the sepals. Hypogynous scales cuneate, trun 

 {ex C. A, Meyer). 



2. T. phamaceoldes, Jlochst. in Schimp, Herb, Abyss. No. l^^j.^S 



ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, flowers densely clustered in the axils V^^^f^^ 

 seeds ellipsoid blunt at the end. Oliv. Fl Trop, Afr, ii. 387 ; Bth. <^ ,-«•./' Xs- 

 PL I 657. T- trichop)da, Fenzl in Boiss, FL Orient, ii. 767. Combesia aDj 

 8imca,.4. Rich, FL Abyss, i. 307. Crassula (Disporocarpa) V^^^V^T^'l 



FiscK S^ Mey. Ind. Sem,y\\\,bQ. 0. campestris, Ilarv. ^ Sond. H 

 351. 



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