416 LIU. CRASSULACEjE, (C. B. Clarke.) [Kalanclwc . 



K. terctifolia, Wall. doe not appear separable from this var. K. acutiflora, Haw. 

 in Andr. Sot. If epos. t. 560 ; Miq. Fl. Ind, Bat. i. pt. i. 728, probably is not an Indian 

 form ; it has white flowers. 



5. COTYLEDON, Linn. 



Herbs, branching or scapigerous. Leaves opposite or alternate, flesh}-. 

 Floivers in spicate racemes or cyniose. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-fid to the 

 base (or in non-Indian species less deeply). Stamens 10 or 5, inserted on the 

 corolla. Hypogynous scales oblong or quadrate. Carpels 5, free, attenuated into 

 filiform styles ; ovules very numerous. Fruit of 5 many-seeded follicles. Dis- 

 TBIB. Species 60 ; in Eastern Asia, Western and Southern Europe and the whole 

 of Africa; also in Mexico. 



The genus as it now stands includes such species as are excluded from Crassula 

 by their alternate leaves, and from Sedum by their spicate racemes or by having only 

 5 stamens. 



* Stem simple, leaves alternate, spike elongate dense, stamens 10. 



1. C. spinosa, Linn. Sp. PL i. 615 ; radical leaves rosulate spathulate 

 terminated by a spine, cauline oblong-lanceolate flat, pedicels 1-flowered, 

 corolla yellow- white twice exceeding the calyx. Umbilicus spinosus, DC. 

 Prodr. iii. 400 ; Ledeb. Fl. -Ross. ii. 174. U. spinosus and U. flmbriatus, Turcz. 

 Fl. Baikal-Dahur, i. 432. Sedurn spinosum, Thunb. Fl Jap. 186. 



WEST TIBET; Falconer No. 482. BALTISTAN, alt. 10,000-11,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Height 6-15 in. Leaves 1-1 in. long. Pedicel % in. long, shorter than its 

 oblong acute bract. Sepals ovate, very acute, greatly exceeding the tube of the 

 corolla. 



* Stems several, leaves alternate, cymes small, stamens 5. 



2. C. Oreades, C. B. Clarke ; annual, glabrous, stems branching from 

 the base, branches ascending leafy, leaves on the sterile branches \ in. long, ro- 

 sulate narrow lanceolate aristate, flowers at the summit of the branches 3-1 

 nodding white. Umbilicus Oreades, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 62 (U. luteus, 

 Ic. t. 73, except that the stamens are not ten) : H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. ii. 91. 



Alpine Western Himalaya; KASHMIR; Pir Punjal, Jacquemont ; Marbul Pass, 

 C. B. Clarke. GURWHAL, Falconer. KUMAON, alt. 14,000 ft.; Shilong, Strachey $ 

 Winterbottom. 



Stems 2-4 in. long, several, curved. Stem-leaves like the rosulate leaves but 

 rather smaller. Sepals i in. long, oblong, acute. Petals a little exceeding the sepals, 

 united at their base only. Seeds ellipsoid, microscopically covered with tubercles. 

 This species has the habit altogether of Sedum, but it cannot be put there because 

 it has only 5 stamens; neither can it be put in Crassula because Crassula has always 

 opposite leaves. Therefore it is put in Cotyledon ; though in Cotyledon the corolla 

 should be tubular, the tube at least equalling the calyx. Similar remarks apply to 

 the next species. 



3. C. spathulata, C. B. Clarke ; glabrous, stolon leaves rosulate in. 

 long petioled spathulate, cauline linear-oblong, flowers corymbose shortly 

 pedicelled, sepals -f in. long oblong acute nearly equalling the corolla and 

 many times exceeding its tube. Umbilicus spathulatus, H.f. $ T. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 92. 



