LI. CRASSULACE . 
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Bryophyllum.] 
places, no doubt introduced from Africa, but thoroughly estab¬ 
lished in a few spots. Pahang, Pekan. Malacca (Maingay, Hervey). 
Perlis, Tebing Tinggi. Native names: Tumbo Daun; Sadingin; 
Karanchong (Pahang). Use: As a febrifuge. 
2 . KALANCHOE, Adans. 
Erect herbs, succulent. Leaves often deeply cut. Flowers 
moderate, erect in panicled cymes. Calyx 4-lobed. Corolla flask¬ 
shaped, limb 4-fid, yellow. Stamens 8, in 2 rows adnate to corolla- 
tube; scales 4, linear or oblong. Carpels 4, with long styles; 
follicles 4. Species 25, chiefly African. 
(1) K. laciniata DC. PI. Grasses, t. 100; Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 
415. 
Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers pale yellow about 1 in. long. 
Malacca (Maingay). Distrib. India, Burma, tropical Africa, Java. 
This is a common pot plant with the Chinese. I have never seen it here 
in flower, but Maingay’s specimens are in flower. It is not native or wild 
anywhere in our region, but might occur as an escape in dry spots. 
Order LII. HAMAMELIDE/E. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate simple or palmate-lobed. 
Flowers often unisexual in heads (or spikes). Calyx small or o, 
adnate to ovary. Petals o to 5. Stamens 4 to many. Ovary 
2-celled; styles 2, spreading; ovules 1 to many. Capsule woody 
dehiscing at tip so as to split each style in two. Seeds 1 to many. 
Species over 30, Persia, India, China, Japan, India, N. America 
and S. Africa. {King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. (1), p. 307.) 
Petals present. 
Petals oblong, pink 2 to 4; stamens 7 to 10 , . 1. Rhodoleia 
Petals linear, white, 5; stamens 5 . . . .2. Maingaya 
Petals linear, spathulate; leaves cordate ovate; 
stamens 10 to 14 . . . . ■ * 3 - Bucklandia 
Petals o; leaves oblong-lanceolate serrate; stamens 
many.4- Altingia 
1 . RHODOLEIA, Hook. 
Shrubs or small trees, exstipulate. Leaves coriaceous alternate, 
glaucous beneath. Flowers in axillary peduncled decurved heads 
with whorls of bracts. Calyx-tubes connate in heads adnate in 
lower half to ovary; limb annular. Petals unilateral pink, 2 to 4, 
absent in central flowers, clawed, oblong. Stamens 7 to 10 inserted 
with petals; filaments thick; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary half 
inferior ovoid, tip bifid. Capsule woody, 2-celled, 2-valved with 
many small angular seeds. Species 3, 1 Hongkong and 2 Malay 
Peninsula (one also in Sumatra). 
