Kalanckoe.] LIII. CRASSULACE^I. (C. B. Clarke.) 41 5 



alternate, upper branches often long racemiforni, sepals oblong acute standing 

 apart at base. H.f.Sf. T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. \i. 91. K. Wightiana, Wall. 

 Cat. 7225. Cotyledon amplexicaulis, Heyne in Herb. Rottl. 



MTS. of the DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 2000-7000 ft.; common. 



Stem 1-3 ft. high. Leaves obovate-elliptic crenate. cauline 2-3 in. long, petiole 

 short. Cyme with very many flowers. Corolla clear yellow, tube glabrous. 



VAR. glabra ; cyme often level-topped, the branches perfectly glabrous not at all 

 racemose with numerous approximate small lanceolar bracts in. long, calyx-tube 

 in fruit -i in. wide. JK. floribunda, Thwaites Enum. 129. K. spathulata, Wall. 

 Cat. 7224. Cotyledon heterophylla, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 456. C. corymbosa, Herb. Rottl, 

 MTS. of the Deccan Peninsula ; extending to CEYLON (Thwaites No. 540) and 

 Parasnath in BEHAB, alt. 4000 ft. J. D. #. This should perhaps be united with 

 K. crenata ; it differs from K. spathulata by the wider (elliptic) upper leaves, the 

 much narrower capsule, the cyme less paniculate. 



4. K. grandiflora, W. fy A. Prodr. 359 ; glabrous, leaves broadly ob- 

 ovate crenate, cyme large compound with large green-yellow flowers, sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate. Wall. Cat. 7226; Wight Ill.t. Ill; H. f. fy T. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 91 ; Sot. Mag. t. 5460. 



NILOHIRI and PULNEY MTS., alt. 7000-8000 ft. ; Gardner, Wight, &c. 



Stem, leaves, and panicle often glaucous. Stem-leaves 2-3 in. long, subsessile. 

 Bracts of cyme - - in. long, elliptic, petioled, early deciduous. Sepals united at base 

 for a distance often ^ in. or more. All the well-developed examples of K. Wightiana, 

 Wall. Cat. 7225 belong to K. floribunda Var. above ; but under Wall. Cat. 7225 

 are included several young examples of K. grandiflora. 



5. X.. brasiliensis, Camb. in Fl. Bras. Merid. ii. 196 ; cyme densely 

 glandulose-pubescent, corolla-tube and lobes without very hairy. Mart. Fl. Bra- 

 ail, t. 89. K. crenata, Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 394, partly. 



MTS. of the DECCAN PENINSULA ; Tovequary Hill in Belgaum and North Deccan 

 Hills, Ritchie. DISTBIB. Brazil, Tropical Africa. 



Stem-leaves f in. long, elliptic, short petiolate, crenate. Petals hair-pointed (as 

 in the allied Indian species). Flowers white ex Dr. Ritchie's field note ; yellow ex 

 Cambess. and Oliver. If this plant be united with K. crenata as proposed by Britten 

 in Oliv. FL. Trop. Afr. ii. 394 the species here described Nos. 2 to 5 may all be 

 included. 



6. K. laciniata, DC. PL Grasses, t. 100 ; Prodr. iii. 395 ; leaves pin- 

 natifid-laciniate, the lobes entire subserrate or dentate, sepals lanceolate sub- 

 patent. Wall. Cat. 7221 ; W. 8> A. Prodr. 360 ; Wight. Ic. 1158 ; Thwaites Enum. 

 129 ; H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 91 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 728 ; 

 Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 105 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 392. K. teretifolia, 

 Haw. in Wall. PL As. Rar. 53, 1. 166 ; Wall. Cat. 7223 ; H. f. 8> T. in Journ, 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 91 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. p. 309. Cotyledon laci- 

 niata, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 456. 



TBOPICAL regions of the DECCAN PENINSULA ; in BENGAL at Patna, Dacca. BURMA, 

 Wallich. MALACCA, Maingay. DISTBIB. Yunan, Java, Tropical Africa. 



VAB. 1. typica ; leaves once pinnatifid, segments \-\ in. broad flat incise-crenate 

 sometimes bipinnatifid ; cyme-branches and sepals often glabrous. 



VAR. 2 ; leaves 2-3-pinnatifid, segments linear, cyme-branches and sepals pu- 

 bescent. 



