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Cotyledon crenata. Scollop-leaved 

 Navel-wort. 



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C7j/} and Order. 



Decandria Pentagynia. 



Generic Charablcr. 



Cat. 5-fidus (modo 4-fidus). Cor. l-petala. Squama ne&tari- 

 ferae 5, ad bafin germinis. Cap/. 5 (modo 4). 



Specific Char abler and Synonyms. 



COTYLEDON crenata ,• foliis decufTatis obtuGs crenatis 



carnofis, floribus cymofo-paniculatis ereftis quadrifidis. 



Fen ten. Malmaif. 49. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. v. 3. p. no. 

 V£R£A crenata ; foliis oppofitis patentibus, racemis longif- 



fimis laxis, floribus Juteis. Bot. Rep of. 21. IVilld. Sp. PL 2. 



p. 471. 

 CALANCHOE Verea. Perfoon Syn. 1. p. 446. a. 

 KALANCHOE. Adanfon Fam. de PL 2. p. 248. 



This fucculent fhrub, native of Sierra Leone, whence 

 it was introduced by our friend Profeffbr Adam Afzelius, 

 and, under the fuppofition of its being an undefcribed genus, 

 was named by Mr. Andrews in honour of James Ver e, Efq. 

 a great encourager of botanical fcience. But if it can be pro- 

 perly feparated from Cotyledon, being undoubtedly a con- 

 gener of Cotyledon laciniata t of which Ad an son, in his 

 Families des Plantes, long ago confiituted a genus, it muft 

 take his name of Kalanchoe. Decandolle, a French 

 botanift, and Persoon, have adopted this divifion ; but 

 M. Ventenat has followed Linnaeus, who confidered his 

 Cotyledon laciniata as belonging to the genus, though cur- 

 tailed of one-fifth in the number of all the parts of fructification. 



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