484 Brn.VA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



Order CRASSULACEiE. 



Pttah usually free, perigynous or sub-hvpogynous. Stamens as many as the 

 petals. Carpels as many as the stamens, distinct, with a gland or scale at the base 

 of each carpel, 2- to many-ovuled, follicular when ripe. Usually succulent herbs. 



SEMPEEvrmr, Linnaus. 



* S. TECTOEUM, L. (M.). 



Twet-kyeh-pen-pouk. House-leek. 



The juice of the house-leek is said to remove corns, and also makes a refreshing 

 drink, and mixed with oil forms an outward application for burns. The juice of 

 other species of Crassulacece is also refreshing, and is credited with corn-removing 

 and vulnerary properties, as the Stonecrops {Sediim), Crassida rejlexum, and C. ruims, 

 and Xavel-wort ( Umhilicus pendulinm), once in repute as an application for hard 

 nipples. 



BETorHYLLrii, Salisbxri/. 



Cali/x large, inflated, shortly 4-cleft. 



B. (CoTTLEDOx) pixxATi, Lamk. Paibbishy spots all over Burma. 



Kalanchoe pinnnta, Perr. 



£. calycinum, Salis. 



Cotyledon rliizophylla, Roxb. 



Twet-khyeh-pen-pouk. 



Roxburgh's name for this plant has reference to its curious habit of producing 

 young plants on the edges of the leaves, and is, so to speak, riciparous, the little 

 plantlets detaching themselves and dropping with ready-formed roots into the soil 

 below. Said to have been introduced into India from the Moluccas by Lady Clive 

 (Mason). It now, however, grows like a weed in some places in Bengal and Burma. 

 It is thus described': "A succulent tropical plant, whose leaf produces buds 

 furnished with root, stem, and leaves, at the extremities of its lateral nerves; these 

 buds, which spontaneously fall off and root in the earth, may be likened to embryos 

 that do not need to be fertilized before developing ; and the leaf of Bryophyllum 

 may be regarded as an open carpel, on which the seeds have been developed by 

 nutritive action alone. This fecundity of BryopliyJlum completes the analogy 

 between the true bud and the fertilized embryo." 



A similar instance of vegetable parthenogenesis may be seen in the 'Watercress 

 [Nasturtium offieinale), and Lady's smock {Cardamine pratensis). 



Kalaxcuoe, Adanson. 

 Calyx 4-parted. 



X Panicles ylandular-pulerulous. 



K. (COTTLEDOS) LACIXIATA, L. Ava. 



Leaves pinnatifid, the lobes flattened, lobed or cut. 



X X Panicles quite glabrous. 



K. AcuTiFLOBA, Ham. Ava. 



K. varians, Wall. 

 K. sulaniplectans, Wall, non Harv. 



Leaves simple or pinnately 3-foliolate, erenate. 



K. TERETiFOLiA, Harv. Pegu. Ava. 



Leaves pedately 3-pinnatisect, the segments almost terete, sulcafc. 



' Dtscriptive and Analytical Botany, by Le Maout and Decaisne, p. 7. 



