Spec. novas in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3. ser., XXXVII (1905), descriptas. 125 
similar to that of C. Lowianum, but narrower and lighter in colour; disc 
bearing a few red-brown spots. Column yellowish-green, lined and dotted 
with red-brown on the face, and suffused with dark redpurple at the apex. 
Annam: Recent importation. 
9. Cyrtanthus inaequalis James O'Brien, |. c., p. 261, fig. 110 /Ama- 
ryllidaceae]. 
Bulb globose, 1!/, inch in diameter, prolonged into a neck 1 inch in 
length. Leaves 2—3 contemporary with the flowers, 1 foot or more in 
length, linear narrowest at the base, where they are almost triangular, 
keeled on the under side, channelled above, green tinged with purple at 
the base. Peduncle erect 1 foot high, cylindrical, slightly compressed, 
hollow, green tinged with purple. Spathevalves four, two large and two 
small, lanceolate. Flowers four in an umbel (in the specimen seen), more 
or less erect, curved; pedicels !/, to !/; inch; ovary ovoid. Perianth 2*/, 
to 3 inches long, tubular in the basal half, the other half having free 
segments, the lower one decurved, the lateral two spreading, the upper 
three inclined forward over the stylé, that peculiar character being very 
pronounced when the flowers are mature. Stamens biseriate, three of 
them reaching nearly to the tips of the segments. Style filiform, stigma 
tricuspidate, not protruded. Colour of the flower bright coralred. 
Cape Colony: In the neighbourhood of Georgetown (Cutbush). 
10. Kalanchoe magnidens N. E. Brown, 1. c., p. 370 /Crassulaceae]. 
Plant 21}, feet or more high, quite glabrous in all parts; the stem, 
leaves and calyx are green, with a scarcely perceptible glaucous bloom. 
Leaves with a petiole 3/,—1 inch long, and a blade 2— 3*/, inches long, 
8/,—921/, inches broad, the lower elliptic-ovate; the uppermost oblong or 
lanceolate-oblong, all obtuse, broadly cuneate at the base, with usually 
three (rarely four) large, obtuse distant teeth on each side. Inflorescence 
laxly branched, the ultimate cymes compact, ?/,—1!/, inch in diameter, 
nine to twenty-five flowered. Pedicels 1—3!/, lines long. Sepals !/, inch 
long, nearly 1 line broad, lanceolate, acute. Corolla four-lobed, light 
salmon coloured; tube 5--5'/, lines long; lobes !/, inch long, nearly 1 line 
broad, lanceolate, very acute, recurved-spreading. Stamens included, in- 
serted in the throat of the corollatube; anthers blackish. Hypogynous 
glands ?/,—1 line long, subulate, yellowish. Carpels included, gradually 
tapering into the styles, green. 
Uganda: (T. Dawe 1904). 
11. Kalanchoe angolensis N. E. Brown, l. c., p. 370. 
Stem about 3 feet high, !, inch or more thick at the base, clothed 
with a spreading pubescence. Leaves opposite, fleshy, brittle, the lower 
about 4 inches long and 2 inches broad, the upper gradually smaller, 
oblong, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, recurved 
and concave beneath at the apical part except the three to four upper 
pairs, channelled along the middle of the rest of the leaf on the upper 
Side; midrib prominent and rounded beneath, somewhat thinly covered 
