412 LIU. ceassulacej:. (C. B. Clarke.) [TillcBa. 



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

 the edp^es of the carpels (few in Tilkea, Triaeiina and some Sedums). Follicles 

 dehiscing down the inner faces, many-seeded, or 1- few-seeded in Tilliea, Tri- 

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

 DisTEiB. 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 minnte axillary sessile flowers 1. Tillsa. 



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



** 



Stamens twice as many as the petals. 



f Petals connate, at least at the hose. 



Calyx shortly 4-fid 3. Betophyllum. 



Calyx 4-partite 4. Kalanchob. 



Calyx 5-partite 5. Cotyxedoit. 



tt Petals free. 



Carpels &-4 (rarely 3) free or slightly connate 6. Seduji. 



Carpels 6-8 7. SaMPKBTiTDir. 



Carpels 3, connate half their length 8. TEiAcnKA. 



1. TXXiXiSBA, Linn. 



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

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

 or red. CSi/ya: 4^5-fid. Petofe 4^, free or connate at the base. Stamens A^5. 

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

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

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

 from Crassula. 



1. T. pentandra, Royle III. 222 (name only) ; leaves lanceolate- 

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

 trigonous pointed at the end. Fdyw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. :kx. 50 ; S. f. ^ T. 

 in Joum. Imoi. Soc. ii. 90 ; Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 386. Crassula (Disporo- 

 carpa) Schimperi, Fisch. 8r Mey. Ind. Sem. viii. 66. 



Subtropical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Kashmie, alt. 3000-6000 ft., frequent. 

 Deccan Peninsttla ; Mysore, T. Lobb ; NUghiris, Hohemaclcer ; Concan, Stocks.— 

 DiSTBiB. Tropical Africa, Abyssinia and the (^meroons. 



Stems procumbentjbranched ; intemodes shorter than the leaves. Leaves J-i in. 

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

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

 {ex C. A. Meyer). 



2. T. phamaceoides, Hochst. in Schimp. Serb. Abyss. No. 104 ; leaves 

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

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

 Pl.i. 657. T. trichopoda. Fend inBoiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 767. Combesia abys- 

 jinica, A. Mich. Fl. Abyss, i. 307. Crassula (Disporocarpa) phamaceoides, 

 Fisch. Sr Mey. Ind. Sem. viii. 56. 0. eampestris, Harv. 8; Stmd. Fl. Cap. ii. 

 351. 



