O+ NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
and one of these a doubtful native. The one here delineated is, however, very common on 
the Hills, and has moreover been generally introduced into the gardens, probably more on 
account of the facility of propagation than any thing else, for indeed, nothing can be easier to 
propagate than this plant. In habit this, the only Neilgherry plant of the order, is peren- 
nial, very succulent, attains a considerable size, and during the earlier months of the year, is 
covered with large clusters of yellow flowers which continue appearing in succession, for two 
or three months. Towards May they have pretty generally disappeared, but plants are 
still to be had even at that advanced season in flower. 
This, in common with the whole family, is distinguished by the exact symmetry of its 
flowers; 4 sepals, 4 petals, 4 carpels,and 8 stamens. These numbers vary in different genera, 
but the proportions remain the same, and by their regular alternation, this family is readily 
distinguished from allits neighbours. DeCandolle’s classification of this family does not 
appear to me by any means a satisfactory one, and has not been adopted by either Lindley 
or Endlicher, Sazifragee, a family as yet undiscovered on these Hills, seems clearly its 
nearest relative, but from which it is easily distinguished by the number of carpels, which 
in this equals the number of petals and are free to the base, while in Saxifragex, two is the 
number of carpels with usually 5 petals. There is also a difference in the placentation wor- 
thy of notice in determining affinities. 
Ihave never heard of any useful application to which this plant has been turned, in 
Europe the leaves of the Houseleek are esteemed for their refrigerent properties and in my 
younger days I was familiar with it under the name of, “ Healing leaf,” and thought it a 
sovereign remedy for all manner of external sores or injuries. Some of the stonecrops are 
very acrid. 
KALANCHOE. 
Calyx 4-partite; the sepals scarcely combined at the base, narrow acute, somewhat distant. Corolla hypo- 
rateriform ; tube cylindrical: limb spreading 4-partite. Stamens 8, attached to the tube of the corolla at the 
base. Scales 4, linear. Carpels4. Styles filiform.—Suffruticose fleshy plants. Leaves opposite, irregu- 
jarly pinnatifid or ovate, ng toothed, thick. Cymes panicled, lax. Flowers jonas or rarely reddish or 
whitish.— WV. and A. Prod. p. 3 
This, tho’ a small genus as respects the number of species, (about 16) but makes up by the extent of ground 
they are spread over. India, from the Hymalayas to Cape Comorin, Ceylon, Moluccas, China, Arabia, Egypt, 
Sierra Leone, Cape of Good Hopeand Brazil, all claim indigenous species. Of the 16, four belong to the 
Indian Peninsula, and are all to a certain extent, variable in their forms to such an extent, as occasionally to 
render discrimination very difficult. 
KALANCHOE GRANDIFLORA (Wall.:) glabrous: bluish green or glaucous colour; the upper ones fre- 
— es broadly obovate, crenated, upper ones obtuse: quently tinged with red and traversed with eeper 
me corymbose, lax: sepals oblong, acute: segments coloured veins: cymes terminal corymbose, furnished 
; hooked m ith conspicuous ovate or suborbicular bracts at 
cronate point.—Wail.! L. n. 722 3 Wight! cat.n. each division, flowers large quaternary with 8 stamens, 
1174.—K. Wightiana, Wall.! L. n. 7225.—Dindy- rising from the tube of the corolla, scarcely excerted, 
gall hills, at an — ation of 3000 feet. Neilgherries. anthers oblong; furnished with a minute capitulate 
A. 1. p. 359. appendage: 4 linear — within, opposite the per 
thie plant vsvaly occurs in rocky places, and when pistils 4, slightly adherent in the centre, each termi- 
in the neighbourh ood of springs, often attains a large nating in a slender filiform "eilthng style, ovary “with 
i er th = um 
weight of their numerous large succulent leaves. Leaves central placenta: fruit somewhat globose, but rarely 
roundish obovate, crenated on the margin, of a attains maturity. 
