Tillma.] Liii. oeasstjlace^. (0. B. Clarke.) 413 



Pdnjab Plain; Hushiarpore, Aitcjtison; Peshawar, Vwart/.—DiaTmB. Persia, 

 Central and South Africa. 



Stem decumbent, branched ; internodes longer than the leaves. Leaves i— 3- in. 

 long, connate at the base. Pedicels very short or J in. long. CaZjfa-segments'lan- 

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

 hair-pointed. Hypogynous scales minute, spathulat« {ex Bichard).— i:\i\a species is 

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



2. CRASSVX.A, Zitm. 



Herts, usually -with thick branches and leaves. Leaves opposite, usually 

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

 Calyx 6-fid or 5-partite. Petals 5, free or connate at the base. Stamens" 5. 

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

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

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



1. C. indlca, Dene, in Jacq. Vmj. JBot. t. 73 ; glabrous, stem 4-12 in. 

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

 forming a compound panicle. H.f.Sf T.inJourn. Linn. 8oc. ii. 90. Sedum 

 paniculatum, Wall. Cat. 7227. 



KuMAON and Gurwhal, alt. 3000-8000 ft,, frequent. Bhotan, Griffith. 



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

 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. BBVOPHYXiXiVin;, Salisb. 



Tall erect herbs, perennials. Leaves opposite, crenate. Flowers 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-fld 

 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. — Disteib. Species 

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



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

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

 Mag. t. 1409 ; Wall. Cat. 7205 ; Wight in Hook Pot. Misc. iii. 100; zvith a 

 flgwre ; W. f A. Prodr. 360 ; PL.f.S/- T. in Jmrn. Linn. Soc. ii. 90 ; Oliv. Fl. 

 Trap. Afr. ii. 390. B. pinnatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. p. 300 ; 

 Cotyledon rhizophylla, Poxb. Fl. Ind, ii. 456. 0. pinnata, Lamk. Diet. ii. 141. 

 Kalanchoe pinnata, Pers. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 728 ; Dah. ^ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 106. 



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. Calt/x 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. 

 Fniit enclosed in the persistent papery calyx and corolla. Seeds small, oblong-ellip- 

 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. 



