218 A FLORA OF MANILA 
1. BRYOPHYLLUM Salisbury 
Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, thick, succulent, crenate, sim- 
ple or 8-foliolate. Flowers large, pendulous, in spreading panicles. Calyx 
with a long, inflated tube; lobes 4, short, valvate. Corolla with a campanu- 
late tube and a shortly 4-fid limb. Stamens 8, in 2 series, inserted on the 
middle of the corolla-tube. Hypogynous scales 4, obtuse. Carpels 4, free 
or connate at the base, attenuated into long styles; ovules very many. 
Follicles 4, many-seeded. (Greek “swell” or “full” and “leaf” in refererice 
to the thick fleshy leaves.) 
Species 4 in tropical Africa, the following throughout the tropics. 
1. B. PINNATUM (Lam.) Kurz (B. calycinwm Salisb.). Catacataca (Tag.) ; 
Siempre viva (Sp.). 
An erect, more or less branched, glabrous, succulent herb 0.4 to 1.4 m 
high. Leaves simple or pinnately compound, the leaflets, elliptic, crenate, 
usually about 10 cm long, thick and succulent. Flowers paniculate, pen- 
dulous. Calyx brownish or purplish, 3.5 to 4 cm long, cylindric. Corolla 
about 5 cm long inflated at the base, then constricted, the exserted parts. 
reddish or purplish, the lobes acuminate. (FI. Filip. pl. 147.) 
In thickets and open places, also cultivated, fl. Dec—March; widely distrib- 
uted in the Philippines and probably of prehistoric intreduction. Tropics 
of the world, probably originating in Africa. 
2. KALANCHOE Adanson 
Stout, erect, succulent, perennial herbs, often unbranched, the leaves op- 
posite, or the upper ones alternate, entire or laciniately 2- or 3-fid. Flowers 
erect, yellow, in many-flowered, subpaniculate cymes. Calyx deeply 4- 
parted. Corolla salver-shaped, the tube flask-like, narrowed above, the 
limb spreading, 4-lobed, longer than the calyx, persistent. Stamens 8, in 
two series, adnate to the corolla-tube. Hypogynous scales 4, linear or 
oblong. Carpels 4, adnate to the base of the corolla-tube, narrowed into 
long styles; ovules many. Follicles 4. Seeds very many, oblong, small. 
(From the Chinese name.) 
Species about 60, chiefly in tropical Africa, few in Asia and in tropical 
America, 2 in the Philippines. 
*1, K. LACINIATA (L.) Pers. 
An erect, simple, robust plant less than 1 m in height, quite glabrous. 
Leaves opposite, fleshy, pinnatisect, 8 to 15 cm long, the lobes distant, 
spreading, subentire, toothed, or somewhat lobed, lanceolate, distant, few. 
Inflorescence terminal, peduncled. Flowers about 1.5 cm long, the sepals 
green, lanceolate, acuminate, the limb of the corolla spreading, about 2 cm 
in diameter. 
Rare in cultivation, Singalon, fl. Jan., and probably in other months, 
introduced. Tropical Africa through India to China and Formosa, south- 
ward to Malaya. 
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