218 A FLORA OF MANILA 



1. BRYOPHYLLUM Salisbury 



Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, thick, succulent, crenate, sim- 

 ple or 3-folioIate. Flowers large, pendulous, in spreading panicles. Caljrx 

 with a long, inflated tube; lobes 4, short, valvate. Corolla with a campanu- 

 late tube and a shortly 4-fid limb. Stamens 8, in 2 series, inserted on the 

 middle of the corolla-tube. Hypogynous scales 4, obtuse. Carpels 4,. free 

 or connate at the base, attenuated into long styles; ovules very many. 

 Follicles 4, many-seeded. (Greek "swell" or "full" and "leaf" in reference 

 to the thick fleshy leaves.) 



Species 4 in tropical Africa, the following throughout the tropics. 



1. B. PiNNATUM (Lam.) Kurzj(B.' caZ^cmww Salisb.). Catacata)» (Tag.)>] 

 Siempre viva ( Sp.) . f<;^^«\/vucA,<S-.fZ- XtAAA/y\.aL^ (jU/vn, .) Hi 



An erect, more or less branched, glabrous, succulent herb 0.4 to 1.4 m 

 high. Leaves simple or pinnately compound, the leaflets, elliptic, crenate, 

 usually about 10 cm long, thick and succulent. Flowers paniculate, pen- 

 dulous. Calyx brownish or purplish, 3.5 to 4 cm long, cylindric. Corolla 

 about 5 cm long inflated at the base, then constricted, the exserted parts 

 reddish or .purplish, the lobes acuminate. (Fl. Filip. pi. H7.) 



In thickets and open places, also cultivated, fl. Dec-March; widely distrib- 

 uted in the Philippines and probably of prehistoric introduction. Tropics 

 of the world, probably originating in Africa. 



2. KALANCHOE Adanson 



Stout, erect, succulent, perennial ^erbs, often unbranched, the leaves op- 

 posite, or the upper ones alternate, entire or lacihiately 2- or 3-fld. Flowers 

 erect, yellow, in many-flowered, subpaniculate cymes. Calyx: deeply 4- 

 parted. Corolla salver-shaped, the tube flask-like, narrowed above, the 

 limb spreading, 4-lobed, longer than the calyx, persistent. S^AiUU 8, in 

 two series, adnate to the corolla-tube. Hypogynous scales 4,^ linear or 

 oblong. Carpels 4, adnate to the base of the corolla-tube, narrowed into 

 long styles; ovules many. Follicles 4. Seeds very many, oblong, small 

 (From the Chinese name.) 



Species about 60, chiefly in tropical' Africa, few in Asia and in tropical 

 America, 2 in the Philippines. 



* 1. K. LACINIATA (L.) Pers. 



An erect, simple, robust plant less than 1 m in height, quite glabrous. 

 Leaves opposite, fleshy, pinnatisect, 8 to 15 cm long, the lobes distant, 

 spreading, subentire, toothed, or somewhat lobed, lanceolate, distant, few. 

 Inflorescence terminal, peduncled. Flowers about 1.5 cm long, the sepals 

 green, lanceolate, acuminate, the limb of the corolla spreading, about 2 cm 

 in diameter. 



Rare in cultivation, Singalon, fl. Jan., and probably in other months, 

 introduced. Tropical Africa through India to China and Formosa, south- 

 ward to Malaya. 



