298 H - Harms. 



Caules plures ex eadera radice orte 6—8 cm longi angulati. Sti- 

 pulae filiformes. Folia 1— 2-juga cum impari foliolis oblongis strigoso- 

 pubescentibus saepius 5—7 mm longis et circ. 2 mm latis apice mucro- 

 natis petiolulis brevibus. Racemi pluriflori 15—25 mm longi rhachi 

 canescenti-pubescente bracteis linearibus calyx circ. 4 mm longus denti- 

 bus angustis lineari-lanceolatis tubo pluries longioribus. Vexillum calyce 

 longius extus dorso pubescens 6—7 mm longum. Alae carina conspi- 

 cuae breviores. Carina naviculariformis circ. 7 mm longa apice pilis 

 sparse obtecta. Ovarium lineari-oblongum pilis obtectum. Legumen 

 ignotum. 



Ober-Katanga: Elisabethville, 1911 (Ad. Hock). 

 Obs. — A close ally of I. hilaris Ecklon et Zeyher but the stems are 

 shorter, the leaves are shorter and the calyx is shorter. 



LX1X. Kalanchoe Adans. (Crassulaceae). 



140. Kalanchoe Homblei De Wild., nov. spec. 



Caulis erectus, ramosis, usque 1 m altus, ramis velutinis, pilis glan- 

 dulosis, aduitis subglabris; foliis medianis crassis, sessilibus, glabris, 

 sicco papyraceis, obovatis vel ellipticis, margine dentato-undulatis, usque 

 13 cm longis et 5,5 cm latis; foliis superioribus reductis velutinis ple- 

 rumque 1 cm circ. longis; inflorescentiis ramosis, ramis usque 20 cm 

 longis, velutinis; cymis plus minus dichotomibus, rachide velutino, flori- 

 bus bracteolatis, bracteolis linearibus, ciliatis, usque 3 mm longis; calyce 

 inflato usque 5 mm longo, sparse velutino, ciliato; corolla lutea, tubo 

 extus velutino, basi inflato usque 1 cm longo, lobis ellipticis, acuminatis 

 usque 4 mm longis et 1.5-2,5 mm latis; ovario glabro, stylo brovi, capi- 

 tato; seminibus numerosis. 



Ober-Katanga: Elisabethville, mai 1912 (Homble, no. 656). 



Obs. — Verwandt mit K. glandidosa Hochst. und speziell mit K. glan- 

 dulosa var. bcnguelensis Engler. 



L. Uber die systematische Stellung 

 von Gleditschia africana Welw. 



Von H. Harms. 

 (Originalarbeit.) 



Erythrophloeum africanum (Welw.) Harms. 



Syn.: Gleditschia africana Welw. ex Bentham in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XXV (1865), 304; Oliv. PI. Trop. Afr., II (1871), 265; Hiern, Catal. Afric. 

 PI. Welwitsch, I (1896), 289. — Caesalpiniodes africanum 0. Ktze. Rev- 

 gen., I (1891), 167. — Erythrophloeum pubistamineum P. Hennings in 

 Oartenflora XXXVIII (1889), Heft 2, S. 41. Abbildg. 8; Schinz in Mem. 

 Herb. Boiss., no. 1 (1900), 119 (var. parvifolium Schinz); Volkens, Nutzpflz. 

 Togos, in Nolizbl. Bot. Gart, App. XXII, no. 1 (1909), 11. 



