

often attaining a large size. Leaves also succulent and glau- 

 cous, two to three inches long, opposite, sessile, obovate or sub- 

 rhomboidal, with three principal longitudinal nerves, and lesser 

 ones branching off from them ; the foliage becomes gradually 

 smaller up the stem, as they approach the flowers ; the margins 

 coarsely sinuato-crenate. Cyme terminal, subsessile, many-flow- 

 ered, scarcely pedunculate. Flowers rather large ; peduncles brac- 

 teated. Calyx of four, deep, ovate, reflexed sepals. Corollas 

 bright-yellow, hypocrateriform ; tube elongated, swelling at the 

 base, so as to be bottle-shaped ; limb of four, spreading, reflexed 

 . {/-^sepals, uncinato-mucronate. Stamens eight, four, long and four 

 short, inserted at the faux of the corolla ; f laments, four long 

 and four short. Ovaries four, slightly united. /Styles four, glan- 

 dular at the apex, elongated, erect. 



Fig. 1. A flower of Kalanchoe grandiflora, Wall. 2. Corolla laid open. 

 3. Pistils and hypogynous glands : — magnified. 



