Tab. 5460. 



KALANCHOE grandiflora. 



Large-flowered Kalanchoe. 



Nat. Ord. Crassulace^e. — Octandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx quadripartitus ; laciniis angustis acutis, subdistantibus. 

 Corolla perigyna, hypocraterimorpha, tubo cylindraceo, limbo quadripartito, pa- 

 tente. Stamina 8, imo corollae tubo inserta, inclusa. Squamulce hypogynce, 

 lineares. Ovaria 4, libera, unilocularia ; ovulis ad suturam ventralem plurimis. 

 Capsular folliculares, liberae, intus longitudinaliter dehiscentes. — Suffrutices car- 

 nod, in Africa boreali-orientali et Capensi, in Asia tropica et Brasilia indigent ; 

 foliis oppositis, irregulariter imparipinnatisectis v. ovatis, dentatis, crassis ; flori- 

 bus cymoso-paniculatis, laxis,flavis v. rarius rubescentibus aut albidis. Endl. 



Kalanchoe grandiflora; glabra, glauca, foliis late obovatis sessilibus trinerviis 

 sinuato-crenatis, cymis terminalibus eorymbosis sublaxifloris, sepalis recurvo- 

 patentibus, corolla? segraentis ovalibus apice uncinato-mucronatis. 



Kalanchoe grandiflora. Wall. Cat. n. 7226. Wight, Cat. n. 1174. Wight et 

 Am. Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind. Orient, p. 359. Wight, Illustr. v. 1. 1. 111. 



Kalanchoe Wightiana. Wall. Cat. 7225. 



The genus Kalanchoe, closely allied in general structure to 

 Bryophyllum (of which we lately figured a new species at our 

 Tab. 5147), contains nine species, according to De Candolle, 

 not however including our present species, which was first dis- 

 tinguished and named by Dr. Wallich, but clearly characterized 

 by Wight and Arnott, in their ' Prodromus of the Botany of 

 the Madras Peninsula,' and afterwards figured in Wight's ' Illus- 

 trations of Indian Botany.' It is a native of the Mysore country, 

 where it appears to be plentiful, though, as far as we yet know, 

 it is peculiar to that region. Our plants were raised from seeds 

 sent to us in 1863, and flowered in a greenhouse devoted to 

 succulent plants, in May, 1864. 



Descr. Stem, as far as I know, simple, but subarborescent, 

 succulent rather than woody, and, as Dr. Wight assures us, 



AUGUST 1st, 1864. 



