Tillcea.'] LIU. CRASSULACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 413 



PUNJAB PLAIN; Hushiarpore, Aitchison; Peshawur, Vicary. DISTKIB. Persia, 

 Central and South Africa. 



Stem decumbent, branched ; internodes longer than the leaves. Leaves -^ in. 

 long, connate at the base. Pedicels very short or \ in. long. Calyx -segmsnts lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate. Petals shorter than the sepals, united at the base, very acute or 

 hair-pointed. Hypogynous scales minute, spathulate (ex Richard). This species is 

 still smaller than T. pentandra, its flowers are less than ^ in. long. 



2. CRASSUXiA, Linn. 



Herbs, usually with thick branches and leaves. Leaves opposite, usually 

 connate, fleshy and with cartilaginous margins. Flowers cymose, not large. 

 Calyx 5-fid or 5-partite. Petals 5, free or connate at the base. Stamens o. 

 Hypogynous scales various. Carpels 5, narrowed into short thick styles ; ovules 

 numerous. Follicles 5, many-seeded. DISTRIB. Species 120, nearly all from the 

 Cape of Good Hope ; a few in Abyssinia, one in the Himalaya. 



1. C. indica, Dene, in Jacq. Toy. Sot. t. 73 ; glabrous, stem 4-12 in. 

 high leafy, radical leaves rosulate spathulate-obovate, cauline acute, cymes 

 forming a compound panicle. H. f. 8f T. in Joitrn. Linn. Soc. ii. 90. Sedurn 

 paniculatum, Wall. Cat. 7227. 



KUMAON and GUBWHAL, alt. 3000-8000 ft., frequent. BHOTAN, Griffith. 



Lower leaves 1-1 in. long, blunt or shortly acute; stem-leaves sessile, subdecur- 

 rent, usually narrow oblong. Panicle sparsely leafy. Petals dull rose, scarcely twice the 

 sepals. Hypogynous glands small, obovate. Seeds very numerous, oblong-ellipsoid, 

 smooth, finely reticulate, quasi-striate. 



3. BRYOFHYXiXiUM, Salisb. 



Tall erect herbs, perennials. Leaves opposite, crenate. Floivers large, pen- 

 dent, in spreading panicles with opposite branches. Calyx with a long inflated 

 tube ; lobes 4, short, valvate. Corolla with a campanulate tube and shortly 4-tid 

 limb. Stamens 8, in two series, inserted on the middle of the corolla-tube. Hy- 

 pogynous scales 4, obtuse. Carpels 4, free or connate at the base, attenuated into 

 long styles ; ovules very many. Follicles 4, many-seeded. DISTRIB. Species 

 4, in tropical Africa ; one extending through the tropics of the whole world. 



1. B. calycinum, Salisb. in DC. Prodr. iii. 396 ; leaves petiolate sim- 

 ple or 3-partite, leaflets oblong or elliptic crenate or subincised-crenate. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1409 ; Wall Cat. 7205 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 100, with a 

 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 360 ; H.f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 90 ; Oliv. Fl. 



j. Afr. ii. 390. B. pinnatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. p. 309 ; 

 Cotyledon rhizophylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 456. C. pinnata, Lamk. Diet. ii. 141. 

 Kalanchoe pinnata, Pers. ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 728 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 105. 



Tropical plains of INDIA, from the base of the Himalaya to Ceylon and Malacca ; 

 universal in Lower Bengal. DISTRIB. Throughout the tropics of the world ; presumed 

 a native of Africa and an introduced plant in Bengal. 



Glabrous. Stems 1-4 ft. high. Calyx 1-1^ in. long, purplish green. Corolla 

 globose-octagonal at the base, green, constricted in the middle ; the exserted parts red- 

 dish-purple. Hypogynous scales subquadrate, free or slightly adherent to the carpels. 

 Fruit enclosed in the persistent papery calyx and corolla. Seeds small, oblong-eliip- 

 soid, smooth, longitudinally obscurely striate. 



In the crenatures of the leaves of this plant buds are easily formed which develop, 

 drop off, and at once produce new plants. 



