102 XLV. CRASSULACER. 
Shrubby half-shrubby or herbaceous succulents. Leaves entire, oppo- 
site or scattered. Flowers showy, panicled or racemose, peduncled.—23 
(perhaps more) Cape species, dispersed. 
8. KALANCHOE, Adans. 
Calyx 4-parted, sepals small, acute. Corolla monopetalous, 
salver-shaped, with an urceolate tube and a 4-parted, spread- 
ing limb. Stamens 8, attached to the base of the corolla. 
Seales 4, linear or oblong. Carpels 4, many-ovuled, with su- 
bulate styles. Follicles many-seeded.—FV. Cap. ii. p. 378. 
Succulent undershrubs, with opposite, toothed, entire or pinnatifid, fleshy 
leaves. Flowers panicled, yellow red or cream-colour.—6 Cape species 
(perhaps more), dispersed, chiefly Eastern. 
9. BRYOPHYLLUM, Salisb. 
Calyx inflated, 4-cleft nearly to the middle, valvate in bud. 
Other characters as in Kalanchoe.— FI. Cap. i. p. 380. 
Succulent undershrubs. Leaves opposite, fleshy, petioled, imparipinnate 
or 1-foliolate ; pinnules crenate. Flowers panicled, yellow changing to red. 
B. tubiflorum, H., a little-known species, grows at Delagoa Bay. Others, 
probably, may be discovered at Natal or in Zululand. 
Orver XLVI. HAMAMELIDEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, with simple, petioled, penninerved, entire 
or toothed leaves. Stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers 
small. Floral characters nearly as in Sawxifragacee ; but the 
anthers are erect, 2-celled, each cell opening by a lateral, in- 
trorse valve, or splitting at the sides. Seeds solitary, albumi- 
nous. 
1. TricnoctaDus. Flowers unisexual, spiked. Petals 5, long, linear. 
Stamens 5. 
2. GrupBia. Flowers bisexual, capitate. Petals 4, ovate, hairy. Sta- 
mens 8. 
1. TRICHOCLADUS, Pers. 
Flowers polygamous, moncecious or dicecious; female flowers 
without petals. Calyx 5-cleft, adnate to the base of the ovary, 
persistent, valvate in bud. Petals 5, linear-clavate, much 
longer than the calyx, with revolute margins, valyate in bud. 
Stamens 5, alternate with the petals; filaments short, thick- 
ened in the middle; anthers erect, adnate, dehiscing by valves. 
Styles 2, spreading. Capsules didymous, 2-celled, endocarp 
separating from the sarcocarp. Seeds solitary, pendulous.— 
Fl. Cap. ii. p. 324. 
South African shrubs, with opposite or alternate, ovate or oblong leaves, 
