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Kalanchoe (Chinese name of one)

(Chinese name of one of the species). SYNS. Calanchoe, Vereia. ORD. Crassulaceae. A genus of about a score species of erect, robust, stove or greenhouse herbs or shrubs, natives of tropical Asia, tropical and Southern Africa, and one from Brazil. Flowers yellow, purple, or scarlet, rather large, numerously disposed in paniculate cymes; corolla salver-shaped; tube urceolate; limb four partite, spreading. Leaves fleshy, opposite, sessile or petiolate, toothed, serrated, or entire. For culture, &c., see Crassula. K. crenata (crenate-leaved). fl. yellow, in very long loose spikes. Autumn. l. oblong-lanceolate, broadly toothed, crenated; crenatures usually double. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Sierra Leone, 1793. Stove shrub. (B. M. 1436, under name of Cotyledon crenata.) K. farinacea (floury). fl. scarlet, in compact umbel-like heads. Summer. l. round-spathulate, entire, sessile. h. 6in. to 12in. Socotra, 1882. A handsome stove succulent decorative plant. (R. G. 1143.) K. grandiflora (large-flowered). fl. rather large; corolla bright yellow, hypocrateriform; tube elongated, bottle-shaped; limb of four reflexed sepals; cyme terminal, sub-sessile, many-flowered. May. l. succulent, glaucous, 2in. to 3in. long, opposite, sessile, ovate or sub-rhomboidal, becoming gradually smaller up the stem; margins coarsely sinuato-crenate. Stem succulent. h. 2ft. India, 1863. Greenhouse. (B. M. 5460.)