414 LIIT. CRASSULACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Kalanchoe. 



4. KLALANCHOE, 



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

 large, erect, in many-flowered subpaniculate cymes. Calyx 4-partite, or 4-fid half 

 way down. Corolla with a flask-shape tube and spreading 4-fld limb, much exceed- 

 ing the calyx (yellow in the Indian species), persistent. Stamens 8, in two series, 

 adhate to the coroTta^tube. Hypogynous scales 4, linear or oblong. Carpels 4, 

 adnate to the base of the corolla-tube, attenuated into long styles ; ovules very 

 many. Follicles 4. Seeds very many, oblong, ellipsoid, with 8-15 longitudinal 

 ribs. DISTKIB. Species 25, chiefly in tropical and South Africa ; several in tro- 

 pical Asia ; one in Brazil. 



* Calyx divided not more than half way down. 



1. XL. glandulosa, Hochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 312 ; very glandu- 

 lar upwards, branches of panicle subopposite, stem-leaves stem-clasping, calyx 

 very glandular-pubescent. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 396. K. Ritchieana, Dalz. 

 in. Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 346 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 105. K. heterophylla, 

 Herb. Wight. Cotyledon hirsuta, Herb. Heyne. 



HTS. of the DECCAN PENINSULA ; Heyne ; Wight, Ritchie. DISTRIB. Abyssinia. 



Stem very thick at the base, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves obovate, nearly entire, the 

 lowest 4-6 in. long, much tapering at the base, scarcely petioled. Calyx-teeth 

 ovate, .acute. Corolla-tube | in. long. Hypogynous scales linear. This species 

 connects Kalanchoe with Bryophyllum; it has the tubular calyx and subopposite 

 panicle branches of Bryophyllum; but the erect flowers, spreading corolla lobes, 

 narrow hypogynous scales and seeds of Kalanchoe. The calyx is described as 

 ' vesicular ' in fruit ; but. it is very slightly so either in the Indian or Abyssinian 

 examples. 



** Calyx divided nearly to the base. 



2. K. spatlmlata, DC. PI. Grasses, t. 65; Prodr. iii. 395; glabrous, 

 leaves spathulate-obkmg crenate, upper distant and becoming very narrow 

 sometimes 3-foliolate, the lowest bracts similar, lower panicle-branches usually 

 opposite, sepals elongate triangular from a broad base. Haw. in Phil. Mag. 

 Lond. N.S. vi. 303; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 728. K. nudicaulis, Ham. in 

 Herb. K. crenata, Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. 394, partly. K. varians, Haw. 

 in Phil. Mag. Lond. N.S. vi. 302; Wall. Cat. 7222, and PL As. Ear. t. 

 107 (not good under the name K. amplectens) ; H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. 

 tioc. ii. 91. K. acutiflora, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 18/6, pt. ii. p. 309, omitting 

 the synonyms. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from BHOTAN to KASHMIR, alt. 1000-3000 ft.; common. 

 E'JBMA; Wallich. DISTRIB. Warm China, Java. 



Stem 1-4 ft. high. Lower leaves commonly 3-4 (sometimes 10) in. long besides 

 the petiole ; upper leaves (with the petiole) often 3-4 in. long by in. broad, fre- 

 quently sessile. Corymb flattish or more rarely elongate, with few scattered linear 

 bracts - in. long. Flowers clear yellow, the corolla-tube glabrous. Calyx in fruit 

 often as much as in. wide. This species should probably be united with K. 

 (pyyptiaca (which hardly diifers except by the orange tint of the flowers) and with 

 K. crenata as in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 394 ; but the Indian plant is very constant 

 in its trifling characteristics and habit. 



3. XL. floribunda, W. fy A. Prodr. 359 ; upper parts of the stem and 

 cyme with short spreading glandular hairs, lower branches of the cyme usually 



