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LIU. cRASSULACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) IKalancTioe: 



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Erect 3tout perennial herbs. ie«i-es opposite or the upper alternate. Flowei 

 large, erect, in many-flowered subpaniculate cymes. Calyx 4-partite, pr 4rfid h^i 

 way down. Cai'oUa with a flask-shape tube and spreading 4-tid limb, much exceed- 

 ing the cslyx (yellow in the Indian species), persistent. Stamens 8, in two series, 

 adnate to the corolla-tube. Hypogynous scales 4, linear or oblong. Carpels 4, 

 adnate to the base of the corolla-tube, attenuated into lon^ styles ; ovules very 



Follicles 4. Seeds very many, oblong, ellipsoid, with 8-15 longitudinal 

 ribs.— DiSTKiB. Species 25, chiefly in tropical and South Africa ; several in tro- 

 pical Asia; one in Brazil. 



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1. K.. ^landulosa, Hochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 312 ; very glandu- 

 lar upwards, branches of panicle sulwpposite, stem-leaves stem-clasping, csdj^ 

 very glandular-pubescent. Oliv. Fl. Trop. AJr. ii. 396. K. Ritchieana, Bat.- 

 in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 346 ; Bah. 4- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 105. K. heterophylla, 

 Herb. Wight. Cotyledon hirsutgi, Herb. Heyne. - 



Mts. of the Deccan Peninsvla ; Heyne; Wight, Ritchie.— Disibxb, Abyssinia. 



Stem very thick at the base, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves obovate, nearly entire, tne 

 lowest 4-6 in, long, much tapering at the base, scarcely petioled. Caly3:-tee 

 ovate, acute. Corolla-tnho J in. long. Hypogynous scales linear. — This specie, 

 connects Kalanchoe with Bryophyllum\ it has the tubular calyx and subopposite 

 panicle branches of Bryophyllum] but the ^rect flowers, spreading corolla lobes, 

 narrow hypogynous scales and seeds of Kalanchoe. The calyx is describea a 

 * vesicular' in fruit; but it is very slightly so either in the Indian or Abyssinia 

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Calyx divided nearly to the bfise. 



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• 2. XL. spathulata, DC. PL Grassed, L 65^ Prodr. iii. 395; glaljrouj 

 leaves spathulate-oblong crenate, upper distant and becoming very ^^^^, 

 sometimes 3-foliolate, the lowest bracts similar, lower panicle-branches ^^J 

 opposite, sepals elongate triangular from a broad base. ITatv. in P^^ijr ^^H' 

 Lorid. N.S. vi. 303; Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 728. K. nudicaulis, Uam^ tn 

 Ilerl. K. crenata, O/eV. Fl Trop. Afr. ii. 394, jyartly. K. varians, -««^- 

 in Phil Mag. Land. N.S. vi. 302 ; Wall Cat. 7222, and PI As. Mar. J^ 

 107 (not good under the name K. amplectens) ; H. f. 8; T. in Jou^-n. -wn»- 

 Soc. ii. 91. K. acutiflora, Kurz in Journ. As. Sac. 187G, pt, ii. p. 309, mttt^'^ 

 the synonyms. 



PiiBMA; Wallich.—DisTRiB. Warm China, Java. 



Kashmir 



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qiiontly sessile 

 bracts \-^ in. 



often as mucl 



f 4U. wiue.— inis species snouia prooaoiy uo u.^^^-^^ Tirl wit^i 

 tf>^y/>ftaca (which hardly differs except by the orange tint of the flowers) ana^^-^ 

 K. crenata ^^ in Oliv. Fl.Trop. AJr. ii. 394; but the Indian plant is very cpp^ 



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