404 LXXXIV. CRASSULACE^I. 



base, and pluri-ovuled ; OVULES anatropous. FRUIT follicular. EMBETO exalluminous. 

 Succulent plants. 



HERBS or UNDEESHEUBS with cylindric more or less fleshy stem and branches. 

 LEAVES usually scattered, fleshy, sometimes cylindric or subulate, simple, entire, or 

 very rarely pinnately lobed (Bryophyllum, Kalanchoe), exstipulate. FLOWEES , or 

 imperfect by arrest, regular, in unilateral cymes, or in terminal often dichotomous 



Kedum acre. 



Sed'tm. Diagram. 



Xedum. Fruit (mag.). 



Sedum. 

 One petal and two stamens (mag.). 



Crauula ifagnolii. 

 Seed, entire and cut longitudinally (mag.). 



corymbs, rarely spiked, sometimes axillary and solitary. CALYX usually 5-fid or 

 -partite, rarely 3-20-partite, aestivation imbricate, persistent. COEOLLA inserted at 

 the base of the calyx ; petals free or connate into a tube, alternate with the sepals, 

 restivation imbricate or valvate. STAMENS adnate to the nionopetalous corolla, or 

 inserted alternately with the petals, sometimes double them in number; filaments 

 distinct, subulate ; anthers introrse, basifixed, with 2 opposite cells, dehiscence 

 longitudinal. SCALES hypogynous, as many as carpels, at their outer base. CAEPELS 

 'opposite the petals, and of equal number [except Triactina~\, whorled, 1 -celled, many- 



