Kalanchoe.'] CRASSULACEAE. 449 



Stamens as many as the petals ; leaves opposite ; small herbs 



1. Tillaea. 



Stamens twice as many as the petals ; tall erect fleshy herbs : 

 Calyx with a long inflated tube and shortly 4-fid limb; corolla 

 with a much constricted tube ; leaves bulbiferous in the crenatures > 



opposite, sometimes pinnate Bry ophyllunu 



Calyx with a short tube and deeply 4-partite limb; corolla with a 

 flask- shaped tube ; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, sometimes 

 pinnatifid, not bulbiferous 2. Kalanchoe. 



1. Tillaea, Linn. 



Small glabrous herbs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers minute* 

 axillary, solitary or fascicled or cymose, white or red. Calyx 

 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, free or connate at the base. Stamens 

 4-5, filaments filiform. Hypogynous scales 4-5 or 0. Carpels 4-5, 

 free ; styles short ; stigmas minute. Follicles 2-maiiy- seeded, 

 rarely 1-seeded. 



TILLAEA PENTANDRA, Royle; F. B. I. ii. 412. 



Deccan, in Mysore (Lobb) ; Nilgiris (Hohenacker\ usually on 



walls or rocks. 



A small tufted plant with angular stem, stem- clasping leaves 

 and minute scarious flowers. 



2. Kalanchoe, Adans. 



Erect perennial herbs, with stout fleshy stems and leaves, 

 Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, entire crenate or pinna- 

 tifid. Flowers large, erect, in many-flowered paniculate bracteate 

 cymes. Calyx 4-partite or 4-fid half way down, shorter than the 

 corolla. Petals 4, connate in a flask-shaped corolla tube, the 

 lobes spreading, persistent. Stamens 8, in 2 series, adnate to the 

 corolla-tube. Hypogynous scales 4. Carpels 4, adnate to the 

 base of the corolla-tube, attenuate into long subulate styles ; 

 stigmas obliquely truncate; ovules many. Follicles 4. Seeds 

 very many, oblong-ellipsoid, ribbed longitudinally. 



Calyx divided not more than half-way down ; leaves obovate, nearly 

 entire, up to 6 in. long, much narrowed at base ; calyx tubular, very 

 glandular-pubescent ; flowers yellow, in elongate panicles of cymes 



corolla lobes ovate-oblong 1. glandulosa. 



Calyx divided nearly to the base : 



Leaves simple, crenate, the crenatures broad : 



