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2. BRYOPHYLLUM, Salisb. 

 T;ill erect perennial herbs, tliickly ilcsliy. Leaves oppo.site, crenate. 

 Flowers large, noclclin<;, in spreading panicles with opposite branches. 

 Calyx inflated, cylindric or 4-gonoiis, shortly 4-fld, valvate. Corolla 

 urceolate or subcanipanulate ; limb shortly 4-lid, spreading. Stamens 8, 

 in 2 series, inserted on the middle of thecorolla-tuk; ; filaments filiform. 

 Carpels 4, free or connate at the base, attenuated into long styles ; 

 liypogynous scales 4, free or adnate to the carpels ; ovules very )iuinerous. 

 Follicles 4, many-seeded. — Disxrib. Tropical Africa ; species 4, of w hich 

 1 has been naturalized throughout the 'J'ropics of the Old AVorld. 



1. Bryophyllum calycinum, Salisb. in DC. Prod. v. 3 (1828) 

 p. 39G. A succulent glabrous lierb 1-4 ft. high ; stems obtusely 

 4-angled, the older light-colored, the younger reddish speckled with 

 white. Leaves variable, decussate, the lower usually simple or occa- 

 sionally compound, the upper usually 3-5- or sometimes 7-foliolate, 

 long-petioled, the petioles united by a ridge round the stem. Leaflets 

 ovate or elliptic, crenate or serrate. Flowers pendent, in large spreading 

 panicles with opposite stout branches ; pedicels slender. Calyx 1-lg in. 

 long, striated red and green at the base, pale green above ; teeth tri- 

 angular. Corolla swollen and octagonal at the base, constricted in the 

 middle, reddish-purple ; lobes triangular. Filaments green at the 

 base, pinkish below the anthers. Anthers hastate, black. Hypogynous 

 scales subquadrate, free or slightly adherent to the carpels. Styles 

 green. Fruit enclosed in the persistent papery calyx and corolla. 

 Seeds small, oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, scarcely striate. The leaves often 

 produce, on their creuatures at the extremities of the lateral nerves, buds 

 furnished with root, stem, and leaves, which drop off and at once become 

 new plants. (See Le Maout & Decaisne, Syst. Bot. p, 7.) Fl. B. I. 

 v. 2, p, 413 ; Grab, Cat, p. 82; Trim. Fl. CeyL v, 2, p, 145 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ, Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. G36, — Flowers : Jan. Veejs-. 

 Pdriphue • Ghaijidt. 



KoNKAN : StocA-ti ! ; Matlieran, H. M. Birdwood ; road to Garbat Poiut, CooJce ! ; in 

 gardens Bombay, Graham ; Wari country, Dal-ell cf- Gibson. Deccan : Wai (Satara 

 districts), Woodrow; Mabableshwar, Cooke \, H. M. Birdwood; Koina valley below 

 Mabableebwar, abundant, Cooke\ S.M. Country: near Belgauin, Graham, Bahell 

 S( Gibson ; Ramgbat, Law. — Distrib. Supposed to be a native of Tropical Africa, but 

 naturalized everywhere throughout the Tropics of the world. 



3. KALANCHOE, Adans. 



Erect stout perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, or the upper alternate 

 fleshy, sessile or petiolate, entire, crenate or pinnatifid. Flowers large, 

 in m.any-flowei-ed paniculate cymes, yellow, white, or purplish. Calyx 

 4-partite or 4-fid |-way down, the segments shorter than the corolla- 

 tube. Corolla with a llask-shaped tube and spreading 4-fid limb, 

 persistent. Stamens 8, in 2 series, adnate to the corolla-tube. Hypo- 

 gynous scales 4. Carpels 4, adnate to the base of the corolla-tube, 

 attenuated into long subulate styles ; ovules many. Follicles mem- 

 branous. Seeds numerous, oblong-ellipsoid, with 8-15 longitudinal 

 ribs. — DiSTUiB. Tropical and S. Afi'ica and Tropical Asia ; one species 

 in Brazil ; species about 25. 



