378 CRASSULACEE (Harv.) [ Kalanchoe. 
naked ; flowers panicled. Burm. Afr. t. 19. f. 1. Pluk. alm. t. 323. 
f. 1. DC. 1. ¢. p. 397. . 
C. maculata (Salm.-Dyck) ; leaves scattered, ovato-spathulate, sub- 
auriculate at base, fleshy, shining, marked on both sides with dark 
red spots ; flowers spiked, subalternate, with a spreading limb ; stem 
suffruticose. A var. of CO. hemispherica ? 
C. rhombifolia ease leaves approximate, obovate-rhomboid, mu- 
cronate, powdery ; stem branched, robust, decumbent. DC. l. c. 
398. Allied to C. hemispheerica, but more branched and dwarf. 
Flowers unknown. 
C. jasminiflora (Salm.-Dyck) ; leaves crowded, green, thomboid-spa- 
ulate, fleshy ; stem dwarf 3 peduncle branched ; flowers erect, 
‘with a green tube, and a revolute purple and white limb ; pedicels 
long, thickened upwards. DC. l. ¢. 
C. caryophyllacea (N. L. Burm.); leaves aggregate, ovate, thick, flat, 
glaucous ; flowers panicled on long pedicels, erect ; stem branched. 
DC. 1. c. Burm. Afr. Dec. t. 17, — 
C. mucronata (Lam.) ; leaves subradical, oval, flat, undulate at mar- 
gin, mucronate ; stem short, branched ; flowers loosely panicled, 
erect. DC. 1. c. * 
C, dichotoma (Haw.) ; leaves channelled 3 eyme dichotomous, pubes- 
cent, with spinous bracts ; tube of the corolla swollen, limb folded 
back. DO. 1. c. 
C. parvula (Burch.) ; leaves oval, compressed, thick ; panicle dichoto- 
mous ; pedicels erect, very long, capillary ; stem erect. DOC. 1. CG 
C. trigyna (Burch.) ; stemless ; leaves glabrous, flat, fleshy, cuneate- 
oval or subrotund ; flowers erect, alternate on a simple, rarely bifid 
seape. DC. 1. c. Carpels 3. =, 
D~% VIII. KALANCHOE, Adans. 
Calyx 4-parted, the sepals scarcely cohering at base, small, acute. 
monopetalous, salver-shaped, with an urceolate tube, and a 
4-parted, spreading limb. Stamens 8, adnate to the base of the tube 
of the corolla. Squame 4, jitear or oblong. Carpels 4, with subulate 
styles. Follicles 4, many. ed. DC. Prod. 3. p. 394. 
Succulent suffrutices, with opposite, toothed or entire, or irregularly pinnatifid, 
fleshy leaves. _ Flowers in panicled cymes, yellow, red or cream colour. : Natives of 
Asia and Africa, The name is from the Chinese term for one of the species. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES, 
Inflorescence an o| close panicle or th: + +. (6) thyrsi 
ae le sora mao feel aes 
ole p mnye pO CORON, Diieid 2 irta. 
Whole plant glabrous : 8) 
ves narrowed to the base, but not neti, : 
Lvs. fleshy, obovate or spathulate ; sepals 
Nettreg ie a ++ + (1) rotundifolia. 
Lvs. membranous, obovate-oblong ; 
Aelteld) ole ce eee eee (4) oblongifolia. 
