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BRYOPHYLLUM CALCYINUM
Calyculated Bryophyllum.
ORDO NATURALIS.
Sempervivæ. Juss. Gen. p. 307.
Calyx longus vaginæformis diu vegetus. Corolla 1-petala; Tubus rhombeus ore contracto; Limbus 4-fidus; marcescens. Filamenta 8, ad os tubi duplici serie inserta. Pericarpia 4, basi squames tot melliferas exaerentia. Suffrutex, facie Crassularum. Folia opposita, succulenta, prima ultimaque simplicia, reliqua ternata vel pinnata duobus paribus foliolorum, crenata ibidemque sobolifera. Flores terminales, paniculati. Nomen a βρνω germino, φνλλον folium.
B. calyce corollâ multo breviore, parum 4—angulo.
Sponte nascitur in Insulis Moluccas, unde in Hortum Botanicum Calcuttae translatum fuit, anno 1798.
Floret sub finem mensium pluvialium.
This singular plant was sent into this country from Bengal by Dr. Roxburgh, and has lately flowered in the stove of the Right Honorable Charles Grenville, at Paddington. It will soon be very common, for young plants are produced in abundance from the crenatures of the leaves. The Cotyledon Pinnata of Lamarck, in Encycl. Bot. v. 2. p. 141. which that author describes with yellow flowers, may possibly be another species; but though I have examined a specimen of this also, gathered by Ant. Hove, a Polish Gardener, in the Island of Johanna, and sent in spirits to Sir Joseph Banks, I cannot be absolutely certain about the matter, none of its flowers being sufficiently advanced.
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE.
- . The Corolla stript of the Calyx.
- . The Germen and Nectarium. .
- . A transverse section of the Seed vessel magnified.
- . The Corolla spread open, showing the insertion of the filaments.
- . An Anther magnified.
