4G4 LI. CRASSULACE.K. 



Order LI. CRASSULACE-aG. 



ITei'bs or iindcvshmbs usually with fleshy or succulent stems and 

 branches. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple or less commonly 

 pinnately divided : stipules 0. Flowers usually cymose (paniculate in 

 Bnjophi/lhcm), liermaphrodite or very rarely unisexual, regular. Calyx 

 free, usually 4-5-fid or 4-5-partite. Petals as many as the sepals and 

 alternate with them, free or more or less connate. Stamens adnate to 

 the monopetalous corolla, or inserted alternately with the petals, some- 

 times double their number. Carpels usually as many as the petals and 

 opposite to them, free or connate below, narrowed upwards into the 

 styles, with a hypogynous gland or scale at the base of each ; ovules 

 numerous, l?-seriate along the ventral suture, horizontal or pendulous, 

 anatropous. Follicles membranous or coriaceous, 1-celled, many or few- 

 seeded, dehiscing down the ventral suture. Seeds albuminous, usually 

 minute ; embryo terete ; cotyledons short. — Disxrib. Spread over nearly 

 Hie whole globe except Polynesia ; genera 14 ; species about 400. 



Stamens as many as the petals. 



Small herbs 1. Till.ea. 



Stamens twice as many as the petals. 

 Tall erect herbs. 



Calyx shortly 4-fld 2. BuyoniYLLUM. 



Calyx 4-partite 3. Kal.vnciioe. 



1. TILIx.ffiA, Linn. 



Small subsucculent glabrous hei'bs. Leaves opposite, entire, flat in 

 the Indian species. Flowers minute, axillary, often fasciculate, solitary 

 or cymose, white or red. Calyx 4-5-lobed or 4-5-partite. Petals 4-5, 

 free, or connate at the very base. Stamens 4-5 ; filaments filiform. 

 Hypogynous scales 4-5 or 0. Carpels 4-5, free, attenuated into short 

 subulate styles ; ovules 2 to each carpel in the Indian species. Follicles 

 2-seeded. — Distuib. Cosmopolitan ; species 20. 



L Tillaea pentandra, lioyle, 111. Bot. Illmal. (1839) ]). 222 (nama 

 only). Stems procumbent, branched ; internodes shorter than the 

 leaves. Leaves ^-| by nj^s ^^-^ linear-lanceolate, acute, connate at 

 the base. Flowers minute, sessile, axillary, usually solitary in the 

 upper, 2-3 together in the lower axils. Calyx-segments lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Petals ovate, acuminate, white, not exceeding the sepals. 

 Seeds minute. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 412; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 2, 

 p. .386. 



IvONKAN : SfOc/c.'i ! 



Tlie plant is incliidcd on the authority of specimens marked as above in Herb. Kew. 

 The ticket on the specimens is not, however, in the handwriting of Dr. Stocks, while 

 llie locality (Konkan) is printed (not written) on the ticket. No other botanist has 

 found the plant in Bombay, and its occurrence in the moist Konkan would seem to be 

 Fomewhat doubtful.— Distkid. India (Subtropical Himalaya, Mysore, Kilghiris); 

 Tropical Africa, Abyssinia. 



