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LXVIII. CRASSULACE^. 



1. KALANCHOE, Adans. 



1. RTTCHIEANA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, p 346. 1 j foot 

 high, herbaceous, glaucous ; stem simple erect, succulent, 4-sided ; 

 leaves oblong, narrower towards the base, perfoliate, decussate, thick 

 and fleshy, with the margin obscurely toothed, lower ones approxi- 

 mated, glabrous, upper ones viscid and glandular, smaller, inflores- 

 cence terminal ; racemes panicled, viscid and glandular ; calyx 

 4-divided to near the middle ; corolla nearly twice as long as the 

 calyx, divisions of the limb oblong, mucronate. On the hill of 

 Caktay, between Belgaum and Sholapore, Dr. Ritchie. 



2. LACINIATA, DC. PI Gr. t. 100. Leaves decompound and 

 pinnatifid, the segments oblong-acute, coarsely toothed, upper ones 

 nearly entire; sepals lanceolate acuminate, spreading; cyme 

 panicled ; flowers yellow. Syn. Cotyledon laciniata, Linn. Wild 

 on the hills near Dharwar. 



3. PINNATA, Pas. Syn. p 446. Fleshy, erect, suffruticose, with 

 thick ovate-crenated opposite leaves, and terminal panicles of 

 pendulous tubular yellowish-red flowers. Very common in the 

 Warree Country and near Belgaum. Syn. Bryophyllum calycinum ; 

 Colytedon rhizophylla, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 456; Bot. Mag t. 1409. 



2. TILLAEA, Linn. 



1. T PENTANDRA, Royle ; Edgeworth in Linn. Trans, xx, 

 50. Stems creeping ; branches erect, leafy ; leaves opposite subper- 

 foliate, rather fleshy, subulate acute, mucronate ; flower bearing 

 branchlets, axillary solitary, sessile, or shortly peduncled ; sepals 

 5, subulate ; petals 5, lanceolate-acute ; carpels minute, 2-seeded ; 

 seeds ovoid, shining. Concan. This we have not seen, but it was 

 found in Dr. Stock's Herbarium as growing in the Concan. 



LXIX. UMBELLIFERZE. 



1. HYDROCOTYLE, Tournef. 



1. II ASIATICA, Linn. A slender herbaceous plant; leaves 

 orbicular reniform, crenated, attached by the margin, 7-nerved, 

 glabrous ; petioles and peduncles fascicled ; umbels capitate, 

 shortly peduncled, 3 to 4-flowered ; fruit orbicular, reticulated, 

 with 4 ribs on each of the flat sides. In moist places in the rains ; 

 not common. Wight Ic. t. 565. 



