416 Liii. CRAssuLACEJE. (C. B. Clarke!) iKalmchoe. 



K. ierctifolia, Wall does not appear separable from this var. K. acutiflora, -Hflw. 

 in Andr. BoU Bepos. t. 560 ; Miq. FL hid, BaL i. pt. i. 728, probably is not an Indian 

 form ; it has white flowers. 



5. COTYXiEDON, Linn 



Herbs, branching or scapigerous. Leaves opposite or alternate, fleshv. 

 Flowers in spicate racemes or cymose. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-fid to the 

 base (or in non-Indian species less deeply). Stamens 10 or 5, inserted on the 

 corolla. Hypogynous scales oblong or quadrate. Carpels 6, free, attenuated into 

 filiform styles ; ovules very numerous. Fruit of 5 many-seeded follicles. Dis- 

 TRIB. Species 60 ; in Eastern Asia, AVestern and Southern Europe and the whole 



of Africa; also in Mexico. 



The genus as it now stands includes such species as are excluded from Crassula 

 by their alternate leaves, and from Sedum by their spicate racemes or by having only 



5 stamens. 



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Stem simpUy leaves altontate^ spike elongate dense 



spinosa, Linn, Sp 





terminated by a spine, cauline oblong-lanceolate flat, pedicels 1-floweWr 

 corolla vellow-white twice exceeding the calyx. Umbilicus spinosus, X't. 

 FrtHlr. iii. 400; Ledeb. FL Jioss. ii. 174. U. spinosus and U. fimhriatu8,ywr«- 

 FL Baikal't)a}iurj i. 482. Sedum spinosum, Thunb, FL Jap. 186. 



West Tibet; Falconer 'So, 482. Baltistan, alt. 10,000-11,000 ft., C. S- ^^^^^/' 

 Height 6-15 in. Leaves 1-1^ in. long. Pedicel i in. long, shorter than iw 



Sepals ovate, very acute, greatly exceeding the tube ol 



oblong acute bract. 



corolla. 





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Stems several, leaves alternate, eumes smalL stamens 



base 



annual 



stems branching frofl 



uceoiaie ansiare, nowers at tne summit 



— „ Umbilicus Oreades, ZJcne. in Jacq. Vo 



Ic. t. 73, except that the stamens are not ten) ; H. /. 

 Soc, ii. 91. 



nodding white. 



Alpine Western Himalaya; Kashmir; Pir Punjal, Jacquemont] Marbul P » 

 C.J5. Clarke, Gurwhal, Falconer. Kumaon, alt. 14,000 ft.; Shilong, btracnti/ 9 

 Winterbottom, ^^^ 



Stents 2-4 in. long, several, curved. 8tQm4eaves like the rosulate Jf^^'^^ u 

 rather smaller. Sepals \ in. long, oblong, acute. Petals a little exceeding tne ^^v ^ 

 united at their base only. Seeds ellipsoid, microscopically covered with ^^^Y use 

 This spe-ies has the habit altogether of Sedum, but it cannot be put there ^^^^ 

 It has only 5 stamens; neither can it be put in Crassula because CrasstUa Has * '.^^ 

 opposite leaves. Therefore it is put in Cotyledon; though in Cotyledon UiQ^"^^ ^^ 

 should be tubular, the tube at least equalling the calyx. Similar remarks app j 

 the next species. 



isulflte 



8. C. spathulata, C. B. Clarke ; glabrous, stolon leaves /os^Jiortlv 

 long petioled spathulate, cauUne Unear-oblong, flowers corymbose ju^ 

 pedicelled, sepals i-f in. long oblong acute nearly equalling ^Y^^^Toum' 

 many tunes exceeding its tube. UmbiUcus spathulatus, H.f- <5' -'•'" *:-. 

 Ltnn. Soc. ii. 92. ^ 



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