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CRASSULACEAE. 



2. KALANCHOE Adans. 



Erect herbs, sometimes a little woody, with opposite leaves and panicled 

 flowers, often showy. Calyx 4-parted, shorter than the corolla. Corolla salver- 

 form, with a swollen tube and a spreading, 4-parted limb. Stamens usually 8, 

 in 2 series on the corolla-tube, the filaments very short. Carpels 4, lanceolate, 

 adnate to the base of the corolla-tube; ovules many. Follicles many-seeded. 

 [Chinese name.] Twenty species or more, all but the following natives of Asia 

 and Africa. Type species: Cotyledon. laciniata L. 



1. Kalanchoe brasiliensis Camb. 

 Brazilian Kalanchoe. (Fig. 185.) 

 Herbaceous, perennial, l°-3"^ liigt, 

 glandular-pubescent above. Leaves 

 ovate to obovate, short-petioled, 2'-4' 

 long, faintly pinnately veined, crenate- 

 dentate, or the upper pairs lanceolate, 

 much smaller and entire; inflorescence 

 4-12' long, cymose-paniculate, its 

 branches nearly erect, the bracts very 

 small; flowers yellow, 6"-8" long; 

 sepals lanceolate, glandular-pubescent, 

 acute; corolla-tube 2-3 times as long 

 as the calyx, the limb spreading; 

 stamens borne on the corolla-tube a 

 little above the middle, not exserted; 

 follicles about 3" long, the brown 

 seeds oblong. 



Agar's Island, 1913, collected by F. 

 S. Collins. Native of Brazil. Natural- 

 ized in Cuba and St. Thomas. Flowers 

 in summer. 



Kalanchoe Afzeliana Britten (Vereia crenata Andr., not K. crenata 

 Haw.), mentioned by Reade as a garden plant, is 2°-4° high, with large crenate 

 basal leaves, and bright yellow flowers. 



Echeveria gibbiflora DC, E.. sanguinea Morren, and E. metallica Hort., 

 Mexican species with beautiful tufts of fleshy, entire, basal leaves, the red or 

 yellow flowers on erect stems, in 1-sided cymes, have occasionally been planted 

 for ornament. 



Sempervivum species, Houseleeks, European, have been grown for in- 

 terest, but are not long-enduring in Bermuda. 



Sedum acre L., Mossy Stonecrop, European, a small trailer with minute 

 thick imbricated leaves, and bright yellow cymose flowers, is said by H. B. 

 Small to be " spreading freely and may be found on wall-faces of road-cuttings, 

 Hamilton and Warwick, frequently placed on graves. " It is also mentioned by 

 Eeade, and Lefroy records it as introduced at Mt. Langton, prior to 1875, 

 but it has not come under my observation in Bermuda. 



Sedum mexicanum Britton, Yellow Mexican Stonecrop, occasionally 

 planted for ornament, is a weak, tufted species about 6' high, with opposite or 

 whorled, linear terete leaves about V long and bright yellow flowers 4"-5" 

 wide in compound cymes. [S. sarmeritosum Masters, not Bunge.] 



Many other Stonecrops, planted at Paget Rectory, died out. 



