470 BENGAL PLANTS. [Bryophyllum, 
nate below, narrowed upwards into the subulate or filiform free 
styles; stigmas often oblique, subcapitate, or minute; ovules ; 
numerous, 2-many-seriate on the ventral suture, rarely Pe baci 
rarely solitary, erect, or pendulous. Fruit of usually a 
fewer, follicles dehiscing by the ventral suture. Seeds many, Jess 
often few, rarely solitary; albumen fleshy; embryo minute, 
indric. 
Calyx with a long, inflated tube and a shortly 4-fid limb; corolla-tube 
campanulate with a shortly 4-fid limb; retiring angles of crenate leaves 
readily bulbifero Bryoph 
Calyx with a aan tube and —— 4-partite limb; corolla-tabe flask- 4 
like with a spreading 4-fid li Kalanchoe. 
314. eat Salisb. 
rted in the 
anthers Seti, shortly exserted ; pari sd: scales 4, obtuse. — 
Carpels 4, free or connate at the base, narrowed into long, exsored : 
styles; stigmas capitellate; ovules many. Fruit of 4 many | 
seeded follicles : : 
7 oo — CALYcINUM Salisb.; F. B. I. ii. 418; E, ». : 
Cotyledon rhizophylla F. I. ii. 456. 
C. Bengal; Chitta, 
A ate iy fini stems 1-4 feet high. Beng : 
Kop-pata 
315. Kalanchoe Adans. 
Erect, perennial herbs, with stout, fleshy stems and _— 
leaves opposite, or the upper alternate. Flowers large, erect, 
many-flowered, subpaniculate cymes. Sepals 4, conna' 
tubular calyx ; lobes narrow, usually much longer 
Petals 4, connate in an urceolate none ir spreading aha er : 
sistent, much longer than calyx. Stamens 8, 2-seria 
corolla-tube, those of one series sicunicnied infertile or ‘ base 
hypogynous scales 4, linear or oblong. Carpels 4, bree 
of corolla-tube, narrowed into exserted styles ; stigmas 
