390 L. CRASSULACEE (BRITTEN). [ Bryophyllum. 
A genus of four species, of which two are confined to Madagascar, and one to the 
Cape; the fourth is common to the tropics of both hemispheres. 
1. B. calycinum, Salisb.; DC. Prod. iii. 896. Shrubby, 2-4 ft. 
high, branched from the base, glabrous throughout. Barren stems 
ascending ; flowering stems erect, cylindrical, spotted with dark purple. 
Leaves fleshy, crenate, ovate orbicular, or unequally pinnate with ovate 
segments, the terminal one larger than the rest. Flowers 1}-2 in. 
long, pendulous. Calyx inflated, 1-14in. long, green, striped with 
purple at the base. Corolla-tube green below, bright reddish-purple in 
the exserted portion, globose-octagonous at the base, abruptly con- 
stricted immediately above, then produced into an elongated, 4-angled, 
ventricose tube; limb 4-fid, segments abruptly acuminate, very acute, 
spreading. Stamens slightly exceeding the corolla-tube. Styles 
onnelng the stamens, erect, filiform. Stigmas sparingly papillose.. 
Squamulie truncate, short, nearly as broad as long, free, or very slightly 
adhering to the carpels—Bot. Mag. t. 1409. 
Upper Guinea. Prince’s Island, Mann! Sierra Leone, Barter! : 
Wile Land. “Planted by huts in Madi; said to have medicinal properties ; also 
grows wild in dells,” 635, Speke and Grant! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesia, Dr. Kirk ! 
Also in Madagascar and Mauritius. : 
For the above description of the flowers I am indebted to Dr. Welwitsch. 
4. KALANCHOB, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 659. 
Calyx 4-partite, rarely 4-fid, sezments linear-ovate or subulate, 
shorter than the corolla-tube, usually deciduous. Corolla hypocrater!- 
form, tube usually urceolate, limb 4-partite, spreading (except 1 
K. humilis), persistent. Stamens 8, adnate to the corolla-tube, in two 
series, all antheriferous, filaments rather short; anthers oblong, ™- 
cluded. Squamule 4, linear or oblong. Carpels of the ovary 4, adnate 
to the base of the corolla-tube (except in K. humilis), lanceolate, nar- 
rowed into slender styles with obliquely truncate stigmas; ovules 
many, multiseriate. Follicles membranaceous, many-seeded.—Robust 
erect herbs or shrubs. Leaves fleshy, opposite, sessile or petiolate, 
entire crenate or pinnatifid. Flowers rather large, usually in many- 
flowered paniculate cymes, yellow purple or scarlet. 
A genus of about thirty species, having its head-quarters in Tropical Africa, but also 
represented at the Cape, in Tropical Asia, and in Brazil. 
Caulescent, 
Calyx 4-partite. 
Corolla-tube 1-2 in. long. 
Plant: tomentoes 0's 2 A Ce oo eee 
Plant glabrous. 
Blowers yellow: ion. ccm jel i.e ee ae ec 
Flowers purplish . . . 
ee a 3. K. grandiflora. 
Corolla-tube rarely exceeding $ in, long. 
Leiveapimmatifid . . 0.2... CUO eee 
