466 LT. crassulace.t;. 



Learcs simple. 

 Flowers yellow. 



Calyx divided not more tlian ^-way 1. K. r/h/ndithiKa. 



Calyx divided to the base or nearly so. 



Calyx ^-f in. long; segments ^ in. broad at tlie base... 2. K. spaihulafa. 

 Calyx g in. long ; segments ^'j in. broad at the base ... '6. K. JloriOunda. 

 Flowers white. 



Calyx glandular-hairy 4. K. olivacca. 



Calyx eglandular, glabrous 5. K. Bhidii. 



Leaves pinnalifid 6. K. laciniata. 



1. Kalanchoe glandulosa, Hoclist. in A. Rich. Fhr. Ahyss. v. 1 

 (1847) p. 312, A stout perennial herb ; stem thick at the base, 1-2 ft. 

 high, clothed (especially towards the top) with glandular hairs. Leaves 

 fleshy ; radical ones ovate or obovate-lanceolate, 4-6 in. long, nearly 

 entire, often glabrous, tapering to the base, scarcely peliolate ; lower 

 stem-leaves obovate, nearly entire, more or less pubescent, tapering to 

 the base, amplexicaul ; upper stem-leaves densely glandular-pubescent, 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, obtuse, amplexicaul. Plowers in dense 

 paniculate glandular-pubescent cymes. Calyx g in. long, densely 

 glandular-pubescent, divided about ^-way down into 4 segments ; 

 teeth triangular-ovate, acute or acuminate. Corolla g-§ in. long, 

 yellow ; tube glandidar-pubescent in the upper part ; segments ovate- 

 oblong, acuminate. Hypogynous scales narrow-linear, whitish, mem- 

 branous. Carpels glabrous. Seeds longitudinally ribbed and trans- 

 versely microscopically striate, oblong-ellipsoid, brown. Y\. B. I. v. 2, 

 p. 414 ; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 2, p. 396 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 636. Kalanchoe liitchieana, Dalz. in Hook. Kew 

 Journ. Bot. v. 4 (1852) p. 346 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 105. 



Deccan : Singhad (Poona districts), Woodrow ; hills near Satara, Woodrow. S. M. 

 CousTiiY : Kakti hill near Belgaum, Rifchie, 32d I ; Hubli, Ritchie I — Distkib. India 

 (hills of the VV. Peninsula) ; Tropical Africa, 



2. Kalanchoe spathulata, DC. Sacc. PL 4' G>'fisses, t, 65. 

 Stem 1-4 ft. high, glabrous. Leaves spalhulate-oblong, obtuse, creuate, 

 cuneate at the buse, glabrous ; the lower petiolate, usually 3-5 by 

 l|-2 in. (sometimes reaching 10 by 4 in.) ; Ihe upper distant, becoming 

 very narrow, 3-4 by | in. (sometimes 3-foliolate), frequently sessile. 

 Plowers in dense many-flowered cymose panicles ; lower bracts leaf- 

 like. Calyx ^-f in. long, glabrous, divided almost to the very base ; 

 segments oblong-lanceolate or triangular from a broad base, acute or 

 acuminate, ^ in. broad at the base. Corolla clear yellow ; tube glabrous, 

 ^ in. long ; lobes broadly lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate. Hypo- 

 gj-nous scales narrow-linear, g in, long, often bitid. Follicles glabrous. 

 11. B. I, V, 2, p. 414; Woodr, in Journ, Bomb, Nat, v. 11 (1898) 

 p, 636 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 564, — Flowers : Oct.-Nov. 



Deccvn: I'ancligani, Woodrow. S. M . CorxTRY : Badami, Woodrow. — Disthib. 

 India (Tropical Himalaya, Einna) ; China, Java. 



3. Kalanchoe floribunda, Wight cj- Am. Prod. (1834) p, 359; 

 var. glabra, C. B. Clarke, in J look. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 415, A large 

 perennial herb 2-3 ft. high, quite glabrous throughout ; stem erect, 

 not branched, hollow. Leaves fleshy, the lowest reaching 4 in, long, 

 gradually becoming smaller upwards, the uppermost about 1| in. long, 



