Tas. 5147. 
BRYOPHYLLUM pro.tiFrERvuM. 
Proliferous Bryophyllum. 
Nat. Ord. CrassULACE#.—OcTANDRIA MonoGyYNI4. 
Gen. Char. Calyx inflatus, ante florescentiam vesicularis, vix ad medium 4- 
fidus, lobis 4-valvatis. Corolla gamopetala, hypogyna ; tudo longo, cylindraceo, 
basi obtuse tetragono ; lodis 4, ovato-triangularibus, acutis. Stamina 8, tubi basi 
adnata. Glandule 4, oblongee.—Suffrutices carnosi, erecti, ramosi, glabri. Folia 
opposita, crassa, petiolata ; alia impari-pinnata ; nunc segmentis 1-2-jugis, inter- 
dum nullis, terminali maximo interdum solitario, pinnis ovatis oblongis crenatis, 
crenis (in B. calycino) punctum opacum in plantulam facile evolutam gerentibus. 
Cytne paniculata, terminales, nunc prolifere. Flores e flavo rubentes. Calyx 
:  fere Silene inflate. De Cand. 
BryopHyiiuM proliferum ; elatum, caule tetragono, foliis pinnatis, rachi late 
alata, pinnis oppositis oblongo-lanceolatis sessilibus crenato-serratis, cyms 
terminalibus proliferis, fluribus nutantibus, calyce tetragono, staminibus 
styloque exsertis. 
Bryopuy.iuo proliferum. Bowie, MS. 
If the two genera, Kalanchoe, Adans., and Bryophyllum, Salisb., 
are to be retained, the present singular plant belongs to the 
latter genus, indicated by the monophyllous inflated calyx; and 
the species, though possessed of little beauty to recommend it, 
is nevertheless very peculiar, and deserving of place in a green- 
house to those who cultivate succulent plants. ‘The stout, and 
at the base almost woody stems, attain, with us, a height of 
10-12 feet, and when the copious corymbs of flowers appear, 
they are disfigured by the quantity of proliferous shoots spring- 
ing from the bases of the pedicels ; whereas, as 18 well known, 
a similar power of reproduction exists in the crenatures of the 
leaves of Bryophyllum calycinum, especially when the leaves 
come in contact with the soil. It is a native of Madagascar, but 
certainly neither under Bryophyllum nor under Kalanchoe is there 
anything described like it. There is a Kalanchoe Delugoensis, — 
as its specific name implies, of Delagoa Bay, a good deal to the | 
east of Natal, but all that is said of it is (Eckl. et Zeyh. Enum. 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1859. 
