T^B. 7856. 

 BRYOPHYLLUM ckenatum. 



Native of Ceiiiral Madagascar. 



Nat. Ord. Chassulace^. 

 Genus Brtophtllum, Salish. ; [BentJi. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 658). 



BETOPHTLLrM crenafuTTi] glaberrimum, caule 3-5-pedale erecto v. basi decum- 

 bente baai simpliciusculo terete apice trichotome ramoso, internodiis 

 ionginscalis, foliis oppositis crassia oblongig v. late orato-oblongia basi 

 cordatis v. biauricalatis auriculis incurvis sinuato-crenatis supra Jeete 

 viridibus subtns pallidis, costa subtns valida, nervis utrinque 3-5, 

 floralibua rainoribus linearibua, petiolis validis 1-2 poll, longis teretibns, 

 cymis terminalibas corymbiformibus laxifloris, floribus nutantibuB rubro- 

 aurantiacia, pedicellis gracilibus decurvia J-f poll, longis, calyce inflate 

 i poll. diam. globose 4rdentato dentibns deltoideis basi rotundato v. 

 mtruso, corollae tubo f poll, longo subcylindraceo medio paullo constricto, 

 lobis 4 brevibus late oblongia apice rotundatis uniseriated ataminibus 

 8-medio tubd insertis, antheris inclusis minutis oblongis, diBci glandulis 

 minutis, ovarii carpellis in stylos localia subseqailoogis graciles attenuatis. 



B. crenatum, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xr. (1884) p. 139. 



Of Bryophyllumy Salisb., only five species are known, 

 all, no doubt, indigenous in Africa or its islands only, 

 though, one of them, the well-known B. calydnum, 

 Salisb. (t. 1409), has, through its property of propagating 

 itself by fragments of its succulent leaves, become so 

 widely spread in the tropics of both hemispheres, as to 

 have been regarded as a native of both America and Asia, 

 The filaments vary in length in the genus, in B. calycinum 

 and B. crenatum the anthers do not project beyond the 

 mouth of the corolla, which they do in B. proliferum, 

 Bojer (t. 5147). 



B. crenatum is a native of Central Madagascar, where it 

 was first collected by Mr. Lyall, who sent specimens to 

 Sir ^Y. Hooker sixty years ago. More recently it has 

 been collected by the Rev. R. Baron, in 1881-2, and by 

 Mr. Scott Elliot at Angalampena, A living plant was 

 presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1900, by 

 Messrs. Yilmorin, which is now five feet high, m th* 

 Succulent House. 



Descr.—Stem stout, erect, cylindric, trichotoraousl^ 

 > branched above. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, succu^ 

 Sbptembee 1st, 1902. 



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