479. 
ORDER LXXIV. CRASSULACEZ. 
Sepals 3-20, more or less. united at:the base: petals alternate 
with the sepals, inserted upon the. bottom of the. calyx, either 
distinct or forming a monopetalous corolla: stamens inserted 
with the petals, equal to them in number and alternate or’ twice" 
as many, those opposite the petals being shortest and arriving 
at maturity before the rest: filaments distinct, subulate: anthers 
2-celled, bursting lengthwise : nectariferous scales one at the 
base of each ovary: ovaries equal in number to the petals and 
opposite to them, 1 l-celled: fruit of several follicles, opening by: 
the ventral suture: seeds variable in number: embryo straight, 
in the axis of thin fleshy albumen. 
GENUS I. KALANCHOE. 
Octandria Tetragynia. Ser. Syst: 
Beriv. The Chinese name of'one of the’ species. 
Gen. Cuar. Suffruticose, fleshy plants :.leaves opposite, ‘irres 
gulatly pinnatifid or ovate, thick, usually toothed: calyx 4-partite, 
the sepals scarcely combined at the base, narrow-acute, somewhat: 
distant ; corolla hypocrateriform : tube cylindrical: limb spreading, 
4:partite : stamens attaclied ‘to the tube of the corolla: at the'base : 
scales 4, linear: carpels 4: styles filiform. 
(1). K.:crawprrcora, (Wall. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p.-359. 
Evgrav. Wight's Spicil: I.-t: 77.—Wight’s Tl. IT. t. 111. 
” Spec: Cuar. Glabrous ; leaves broadly-obovate, crenated, upper 
Gties obtuse: cyme corymbose, lax: sepals oblong, acute: petals 
oval, bluntish, with a’ short hooked mucronate point : flowers yel-, 
lowish. 
Dindigul Hills: ‘Neilghertiés, in rocky places. 
(2) K. rvorrmeunpa. (W. & A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p.- 359. 
Syn, K. spathulata, Wall. 
SpEc, Citar. Upper parts of the stem and cyme covered with 
short épreading glandulat haits : upper leaves alternate, lanceolate, 
