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Liii. CRASSULACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 



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13. S- llnearifolium, Hoyle HI. t. 48 ; stems 3-5 in. and with the leaves- 

 glabrous, leaves ^-J in. imhricate narrow oblong or linear entire or toothed, 

 cymes 2-8-flowered, sepals oblong-lanceolate^ petals nearly | in. long broad- 

 lanceolate. H. / ^ T, in Jmim. Linn, Soc. ii. 100. S. pauciflorum, Edgrv. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 49 ; -ff./. §• T. 100. S. mucronatum, Edffw. in Tram. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 48. 



Temperate Western Himalaya, alt. 7000-10,000 ft.; Gurwhal, Kumaon, &c.^ 



Boyle, Falconer, T. Thomson, &c, 



A species easily recognised by the large white petals (but H. f. & T. say red^). 

 Sepals not ovate in Var. paiiciflorum, but as in the typical linedrifoUum. — Edgewortb s 

 8. mucronatiim is identically his S. paucijlorum as shown by H.'f. & T, 



Var. 1 . typica ; leaves dentate. 



Var. 2. pauciflorum; leaves little dentate or entire. 



14. S. trlfidum, Watt. Cat. 7230; stems 3-11 in. glabrous, leaves 2-4 

 in. petioled oblong sinuate-pinnatifid, or 1-2-pinnatifid with linear blunt lobes, 

 cymes branched leafy, sepals narrow-lanceolate, petals linear-lanceolate twice 

 the sepals. H. /. ^ T. in Jmirn. Linn. Soc. ii. 100. S. sinuatum, RoyU ML 

 p. 222 ; Edgw. in Tram. Linn. Soc. xx. 47. 



Temperate Himalaya from Sikkim to Kashmir, alt. 6000-12,000 ft., common 

 on rocks and on trees. ^ . <. 



Cymes leafy. Flowers pedicelled, pink. Follicles when ripe very thin-walled. 

 well-marked abundant species in which however the leaves vary between the yi 

 limits given above. 



. Sect. III. Annuals, or perennials with no thick rootstock. Flowers herma- 

 phrodite. Seeds obovoid, not compressed, the testa not loose. 



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Radical leaves rosulate. 



15. S. rosulatum, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 48; stems 2-4 ni-r 

 cauline leaves ^ in, somewhat remote spathulate-obovate or spathulate- 

 orbicular, sepals oblong glabrous rarely minutely pubescent, petals white ellip^i 

 or oblong not very acute. H. f. ^ T. in Joum, Linn. Soc. ii. 101. S. pyritorme, 

 Boyle Herb. Umbilicus radicans, Klotzsch in Heis. Fr. Waldem. Bot. t. 44. 



Kttmaon to Kashmir, alt. 5000-9000 ft. ; frequent, Boyle, Falconer, T. Thomson, 

 Edgeworth, &c.— Distrib. Afghanistan. . ^. 



Stem glabrous, more rarely glandular-pubescent. Kosulate leaves J-li ^°; ^. 

 thulate or elongate obovate. Cymes weak, straggling, often subsecund or suds 

 pioid with long pedicels |-1 in. long. Follicles small, thin-walled, erect. Seeds ex r 

 soid, somewhat obvoid, smooth, longitudinally striate. 



adenotrichum. Wall 



.rrowed beloxv 



. 48 ; Baker ^ Saunders Ref. Bot t. 296. 



KuMAON to Kashmir, alt. 3000-8000 ft. ; frequent. fVallich. T. Thomson: 

 Winterbottom. &c. 



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. Eosulate leaves ^-1 J in. spathulate or elongate obovate. Cymes lax with P^J^^^- 

 \'-\ in. long, often with two or more erect elongate branches. Follicles ^P^' - be 

 erect. • Seeds obovoid, ellipsoid, smooth, longitudinally striate.— This sp®^^®^ l^^ore* 

 generally distineuished from S. rosulatnm hv its lareer size, stronger cyme, an 



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