404 LXXXIV. CEASSULACE^. 



base, and pluri-ovuled ; OVULES anatropous. ^nviT follicular. Embryo exalbuminous. 

 — Succulent plants. 



Herbs or undershrubs 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. Flowers ^ , or 

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



Sedum. 

 Flower (mag.). 



Sed-um. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.), 



Sedum acre. 



Sedum. Diagram, 



Sedum. Fruit (mag.). 



Sedum. 

 One petal and two stamens (mag.). 



Crassula Magnolii. 

 Seed, entire and cut longitudinally (mag.)' 



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

 -partite, rarely 3-20-partite, sestivation imbricate, persistent. Corolla inserted at 

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

 Eestivation imbricate or valvate. Stamens adnafce to the nionopetalous corolla, or 

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

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

 longitudinal. Scales hypogynous, as many as carpels, at their outer base. Caupbls 

 opposite the petals, and of equal number [except Trmcima], whorled, 1 -celled, many- 



