332 CBAS8ULACEJE. [Kalanchob. 



I. nutans, B^oyle III. 226; Brand. For. Fl.213; F. B. I. ii,408; Watt 



E.D. 



A sarub or small tree. Leaves 4-6 in, long, elliptic- oblong, acute or acumi- 

 nate, rounded or subacute at the base, denticulate above the base, 

 glabrous, veins conspicuous on both sides; petiole 1-1| in., stout. 

 Bacemes solitary, elongate, exceeding the leaves ; pedicels twice as long 

 as the calyx- tube, glandular-pubescent, reflexed ; bracts small, subper- 

 sistent. Oalyx-tuhe hemispherical; teeth erect, subulate, persistent. 

 Petals twice the calyx-lobes, linear, white, subpersistent. Oapsule ^ in. 



Dehra Dun. Dtstrib. : W. Himalaya from Hazara to Kumaon, up to 

 6,000 ft. Flowers April- July. 



XLVI.-CRASSULACEiE. 



Herbs, often with a woody perennial root-stock, or under-shrubs 

 usually succulent. Leaves alternate or opposite, usually simple 

 (divided in KalancJioe) ; stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermapliro- 

 dite or 1-sexual. Calyx usually 4-5-fid. Petals as many as the 

 sepals, free or connate. Stamens hypogynous or on the petals, as 

 many or twice as many as the petals. Car'pels usually as many as 

 tlie petals, with a hypogynous gland or scale at the base of each, free 

 or connate below, narrowed upwaikis with the styles. Oyw^e*' usually 

 many, on the edges of the carpels. Follicles dehiscing down the 

 inner faces, usually many-seeded. Seeds albuminous. — Species over 

 400, spread over nearly the whole Globe, except Polynesia ; abundant 

 in S. Africa, and general in the N. Hemisphere. 



KALANCHOE, Adans. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 414. 



Erect stout perennial herbs. Leaves opposite or the upper alter- 

 nate. Flowers large, erect, in many-flowered subpaniculate cymes. 

 Calyx 4-partite. or 4-fid half-way down. Corolla with a flask-shaped 

 tube and spreading 4-fid limb, much exceeding the calyx (yellow in 

 the Indian species), persistent. Stamens 8, in two series, adnata to 

 the corolla- tube. Hypogynous scales 4, linear or oblong. Carpels 

 4, adnate to the base of the corolla-tube, attenuated into long styles ; 

 ovules very many. Follicles 4. Seeds very many, oblong, ellipsoid, 

 with 8-15 longitudinal ribs.— Species 50-60, chiefly in trop. and sub- 

 trop. Africa. 



K. spathulata. Da PI. Grass, t. 65; F. B. l.ii, 414; WaU E.B- 

 K. varians, Raxo. ; Boyle III. 222. 



