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4. GRAMMANTHES, DC. 
Calyx bell-shaped, semi-5-fid. Corolla gamopetalous, the 
tube as long as the calyx; limb 5-6-lobed, spreading. Sta- 
mens 5-6, attached to the corolla-tube, shortly exserted. 
Carpels 5-6, many-ovuled, with subulate styles. Scales very 
minute or obsolete. Follicles many-seeded.— Fl. Cap. ii. p. 
331. 
A small, 2-chotomous, glabrous and glaucous annual, very variable in 
size of all parts; found in sandy soil throughout the Western districts. 
Stems rigid, wiry ; leaves in distant pairs, fleshy, oblong ovate or sublinear. 
Flowers panicled, few or many, or solitary, terminal!, orange yellow or 
creamy-white, each petal commonly (not always) having a darker mark 
shaped like the letter V. 
5. CRASSULA, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted or deeply 5-cleft, rarely 6—9-parted, spread- 
ing or erect. Petals 5 (rarely 6-9), free or connate below, 
spreading or erect, or erect with recurved points, ovate ob- 
ovate oblong or panduriform or lanceolate, either simple at 
the apex or mucronulate or gland-tipped. Stamens 5 (rarely 
6-9), shorter than the petals. Scales various.  Follicles 
several-seeded.— FV. Cap. ii. p. 382. 
A large genus of succulent shrubs undershrubs or herbs, very variable in 
habit and size. Leaves opposite, mostly connate at base, broad or narrow, 
flat or round, more or less fleshy, glabrous pubescent or scaly, often carti- 
lagineo-ciliate. Flowers white, red, rarely yellow, mostly of small size, 
solitary cymose or capitate.—About 100 species (probably more), dispersed, 
chiefly in dry ground. 
6. ROCHEA, DC. 
Calyx 5-parted or deeply 5-cleft. Corolla more or less per- 
fectly gamopetalous, salver-shaped, its tube longer than the 
calyx ; limb 5-parted, spreading. Stamens 5, adnate to the 
claws of the petals; anthers subsessile, in the throat of the 
tube. Scales very small. Carpels 5, several-ovuled; styles 
subulate or clavate. Follicles many-seeded.— #7. Cap. 11. p. 368. 
Shrubby or half-shrubby succulents. Leaves connate or sheathing at 
base, fringed with small cilia. Flowers handsome, crimson rosy: white or 
pale yellow ; some very sweetly scented.—4 species, all Western. 
7. COTYLEDON, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted, much shorter than the tube of corolla. 
Corolla gamopetalous, with an ovate or linear, 5-angled tube, 
and a spreading or reflexed and revolute, 5-parted limb, 
spirally twisted in bud. Stamens 10, attached to the base of 
the corolla-tube, exserted or subincluded. Seales oval. Car- 
pels 5, many-ovuled ; styles subulate.—7. Cap. ii. p. 370. 
