Tillcea.'} Liii. crassulacej:. (C. B. Clarke.) 413 



Punjab Plain; Hushiarpore, Aitchison; Peshawur, Vkary. — Distrib. Persia, 

 Central and South Africa. 



S^«w decumbent, branched ; internodes longer than the leaves. Leaves |-^ in. 

 long, connate at the base. Pedicels very short or \ in. long. Ca/yx-segments lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate. Petals shorter than the sepals, united at the base, very acute or 

 hair-pointed. Hypogynous scales minute, spathulate {ex Richard). — This species is 

 still smaller than T, fentandra^ its flowers are less than ^^ in. long. 



2. CXlASSVZiA, Linn. 



Herbs, usually with thick branches and leaves. Leaves opposite, usually 

 connate, fleshy and with cartilaginous margins. Flowers cymose, not larore. 

 Calyx 5-fid or 5-partite. Petals 5, free or connate at the base. Stamens 5. 

 Hypogynous scales various. Carpels 5^ narrowed into short thick styles ; ovules 

 numerous. Follicles 5, many-seeded.— Distrib. Species 120, nearly all from the 

 Cape of Good Hope ; a few in Abyssinia, one in the Himalaya. 



J. C. indica, Dene, in Jacq, Voy.Bot.i. 73; glabrous, stem 4-12 in. 

 nigh leafy, radical leaves rosulate spathulate-obovate, cauline acute, cymes 

 forming a compound panicle. H.f, 8^- T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 90. Sedum 

 paniculatum, Wall. Cat. 7227. 



. Ktjmaon and Gurwhal, alt. 3000-8000 ft., frequent. Bhotan, Griffith. 



Lower leaves 1-1^ in. long, blunt or shortly acute; stem-leaves sessile, subdecur- 

 fftut, usually narrow oblong. Panicle sparsely leafy. Petals dull rose, scarcely twice the 

 sepals. Hypogynous glands small, obovate. Seeds very numerous, oblong-ellipsoiJ, 

 ^ooth, finely reticulate, quasi-striate. 



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3. BR'S-OPKVZiXiUM, Salish. 



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'^ Tall erect herbs, perennials. Leaves opposite, crenate. Flotvers large, peu- 

 Wk!^ ^^ spreading panicles with opposite branches. Calyx with a long inflated 

 |?w ; lobes 4, short, valvate. Corolla Avith a campanulate tube and shortly 4-fid 

 ^inao. Stamem 8, in two series, inserted on the middle of the corolla-tube. Ily- 

 P^g3Tiou3 scales 4, obtuse. Carpels 4, free or connate at the base, attenuated into 

 «>ng styles ; ovules very many. Follicles 4, many-seeded.— Distrib. Snecies 

 % in tropical Africa ; one extending through the tropics of the whole world. 



. 1- B. calycinum, Salisb. in DC. Prodr. iii. 396; leaves petiolate sim- 

 P^ or 3-pai-tite, leaflets oblong or elliptic crenate or subincised-crenate. Bot. 

 ^^i^. t. 1409; Wall Cat, 7205; Wtght in Hook. Bot. .Tifi^c. iii. 100, icith a 

 •T*''e ; W.Sf A. Prodr. 360 ; H.f.iSf T. in Joum. Linn. Soc, ii. 90 ; Oliv. Ft. 

 iy: Aff-' ii. 300. B. pinnatiim, Kxtrz in Joum. As, Soc, 1870, pt ii. p. 309 ; 

 Wedon rhizophylla, Boxb. FL Ind. ii. 456. C. pinnata, Lamk. Diet. li. 141. 

 ^Aanchoe pinnata, Pers, ; Mia, FL Ind, Bat. \. pt. i. 728 ; Dah. i§- Gih^. 

 ^^''nb. FL 105. ^ 



^..'^^P'cal plains of India, from the base of the Himalaya to Ceylon and Malacca ; 

 ^^^versal in Lower Bengal.— DtsTRiR. Throughout the tropics of the world ; presumed 

 V/'^^^ Africa and an introduced plant in Bengal. 



gloTv! ^^®' ^^^^^ ^-^ ^t- ^^^^- ^^^y^ ^-H ^'^^ ^^°?' purplish green. Corolla 

 Ii r^^^ctagonal at the base, green, constricted in the middle; theexserted parts red- 

 fnLb^^^^' Hypogynous scales suliquadrate, free or slightly adherent to the carpels. 



*^ enclosed in the persistent papery calyx and corolla. Seeds small, oblong-ellip- 



; ®^.^th, longitudinaUy obscurely striate. 

 4rop ff denatures of the leaves of this plant buds are easily formed which develop, 

 Poni and at once produce new plants. 







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