412 LIII. CRASSULACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Tillcea. 



each ; free, or connate below, narrowed upwards into the styles ; ovules many on 

 the edges of the carpels (few in Tillcea, Triactina and some Sedums). Follicles 

 dehiscing down the inner faces, many-seeded, or 1- few-seeded in Till&a, Tri- 

 actina and a few Sedums. Seeds albuminous ; embryo terete, cotyledons short. 

 DISTRIB. Species 400 ; spread over nearly the whole globe except Polynesia ; 

 rare in Australia and South America ; abundant in South Africa ; general in 

 the northern hemisphere. 



* Stamens as many as the petals, leaves opposite (see also Cotyledon). 



Small herbs with minute axillary sessile flowers 1. TILLJEA. 



Succulent herbs with flowers in a paniculate cyme 2. CRASSULA. 



** Stamens twice as many as the petals. 

 f Petals connate, at least at the base. 



Calyx shortly 4-fid 3. BRYOPHYLLTJM. 



Calyx 4-partite 4. KALANCHOE. 



Calyx 5-partite 5. COTYLEDON. 



ft Petals free. 



Carpels 5-4 (rarely 3) free or slightly connate 6. SEDUM. 



Carpels 6-8 '. . 7. SEMPERVIVUM. 



Carpels 3, connate half their length 8. TRIACTINA. 



1. TILL2EA, Linn. 



Small glabrous succulent herbs. Leaves opposite, entire, flat in the Indian 

 species. Flowers minute, axillary, often fasciculate, solitary or cyniose, white 

 or red. Calyx 4-5-fid. Petals 4-5, free or connate at the base. Stamens 4-5. 

 Hypogynous scales 4-5 or 0. Carpels 4-5, free, narrowed into short styles with 

 minute stigmas ; ovules 2 to each carpel in the Indian species. Follicles 2- 

 seeded. DISTRIB. A genus of 20 species, widely distributed, scarcely separable 

 from Orassula. 



1. T. pentandra, Eoyle 111 222 (name only} ; leaves lanceolate- 

 linear acute, flowers sessile in the axils often 2-3-nate, seeds ellipsoid sub- 

 trigonous pointed at the end. Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 50 ; H. f. fy T. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 90 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 386. Crassula (Disporo- 

 carpa) Schimperi, Fisch. fy Mey. Ind. Sem. viii. 56. 



Subtropical Himalaya, from KUMAOX to KASHMIR, alt. 3000-6000 ft,, frequent. 

 DECCAN PENINSULA ; Mysore, T. Lobb ; Nilghiris, Hohenacker ; Concan, Stocks. 

 DISTRIB. Tropical Africa, Abyssinia and the Cameroons. 



Stems procumbent,branched ; internodes shorter than the leaves. Leaves \-^ in. 

 long, connate at the base. Calyx- segments lanceolate-acuminate, Petals elliptic, 

 acuminate, white, not exceeding the sepals. Hypogynous scales cuneate, truncate 

 (ex C. A. Meyer). 



2. T. pharnaceoides, Hochst. in Schimp. Herb. Abyss. No. 104 ; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, flowers densely clustered in the axils pedicelled, 

 seeds ellipsoid blunt at the end. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 387 ; Sth. fy H. f. Gen. 

 PI. i. 657. T. trichopoda, Fenzl in JBoiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 767. Combesia abys- 

 sinica, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 307. Crassula (Disporocarpa) pharnaceoides, 

 Fisch. $ Mey. Ind. Sem. viii. 56. C. carnpestris, Harv. $ Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 

 351. 



