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CRASSULACEAE (Orpine Family)
Kalanchoe pinnata (Lam.) Pers. "air plant", "miracle plant", "life plant"
te ang (K)
syns. Cotyledon pinnatum Lam. ; Bryophyllum pinnatum (Lam .) Kurz; B. cal-
ycinum Salisb.
Pre-world War I1 introduction. Indian Ocean Islands. Occasional. Succulent,
glabrous, erect, un- or sparingly-branched, pale gray-green, perennial herb, with reddish
stems marked with oblong light spots, somewhat woody at the base, up to 60 cm or
higher; leaves, up to 20 cm long by 10 cm, opposite, simple or pinnately compound with
3 to 5 leaflets, broadly elliptic, margins crenate (scalloped), each crenation bearing at the
notch a vegetative bud which (when leaf is detached) may produce rootlets and stem,
eventually yielding a complete new plant; petioles, up to 10 to 12 long; petiolules, 3 to 5
mm long; flowers, 3 to 6 cm long, red or red-pink and green, cylindrical, pendent, calyx
and corolla 4-parted, dangling in terminal panicles; fruit, follicular. Planted ornamental.
Common pot plant; naturalized and spreading around water tank near Topside Workshop
food gardens. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7.
Kalanchoe tubiflora (Harvey) Hamet "chandelier plant"
syns. Bryophyllum tubzforum Harvey; B. verticillata Scott-Elliot
Recent introduction. Madagascar. Rare. Succulent erect perennial herb, up to 50
cm or higher; leaves, 2 to 12 cm long and about 6 mm thick, generally dull green, with
purplish blotches or transversely striped, slender, nearly cylindrical or tubular (subterete),
usually whorled in threes at the stem nodes or crowded toward stem ends, 7-toothed at
the apex where vegetative buds develop; flowers, about 2 to 2.5 cm long, reddish,
pendent, corolla much longer than calyx, both 4-parted. Ornamental potplant. 3(587 IS), 4
(52).
CUCURBITACEAE (Melon Family)
Benicasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. "wax gourd", "ash pumpkin", "winter melon",
"white gourd" tung kwa (C)
syns. B. cerfera (Fisch.) Savi; Cucurbita. hispida Thunb.; C. cerfera Fisch.
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Pre-World War I1 introduction. Java. Occasional. Wide-spreading, herbaceous,
pubescent or hispid, annual climbing vine, to several meters, with short, branched
tendrils; leaves, 10 to 35 cm across, rounded, cordate, pubescent, palmately 5- to 11-
lobed; petioles, 10 to 20 cm long; flowers, 6 to 12 cm in diameter, monoecious, solitary,