Kalanchoe. | L, CRASSULACEE (BRITTEN). 393 
minal few-flowered cyme. Calyx deciduous, lobes lanceolate, acute. 
Corolla-tube much inflated at the base, 4-angled, scarcely twice as long 
as the calyx; limb-seements very long, narrow, lanceolate, _very 
acute, yellow at the margins, brown in the centre. Squamul linear. 
Carpels glabrous, oblong, very acute at the tips. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Shiré, Quartin-Dillon. 
Description from Richard. 
?. K. platysepala, Welw. mss. Annual. Stem erect, 1-3 ft. high, 
pubescent, obscurely tetragonous, subalate. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 
pubescent, 1-3 in. long, } in. broad, entire or rarely slightly sinuate 
towards the apex, sessile, amplexicaul, subacute, the upper often with 
short fascicles of flowers in the axils: internodes 2-4 in. long. Th- 
florescence cymose, loosely pilose. Cymes rounded, compact, terminal, 
or in larger specimens also lateral, forming an elongated leafy panicle, 
1-1} ft. long. Calyx subvesicular, lobes broadly ovate, united for 
about } of their length, 2-3 lines long, acute, pubescent, margins 
ciliolate. Corolla deep yellow, slightly pubescent externally ; tube 3-5 
lines long, limb 3-5 lines across, segments broadly ovate, glabrous, 
acuminate. Squamule 1—2 lines long, entire. Carpels ovate-lanceo- 
late, 3 lines long, style persistent. Seeds pale-brown, minute. 
Lower Guinea. Benguela, Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! ; 
Mozamb. Distr. Shire Valley, Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
8. K. Afzeliana, Britten. Plant glabrous, or with a few scattered 
hairson the stem. Stems 2-4 ft. high, simple, almost naked above. 
Root-leaves large, 8 in. or more long, oblong- or rotundate-ovate, ob- 
tuse, coarsely crenate or with wide blunt rounded crenate teeth, some- 
what cuneate at the base, glaucous beneath, distinctly petiolate. Lower 
Stem-leaves similar to the foregoing but smaller, about 4 in. long, 
passing abruptly above into narrow obovate-spathulate bracts, distantly 
toothed above, 1-2 in. long. Flowers in terminal racemose distichous 
cymes, bright yellow. Galyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
Subacute. Tube slender, 3 in. Tone. Squamule whitish, linear- 
lanceolate, nearly as long as the calyx.—Vereia crenata, Andr. Bot. 
Rep. t. 21. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! 
I have seen only a cultivated specimen, the type of the figure cited, in Herb. Mus. 
rit. 
9. K. glaucescens, Britten. Stem terete, glabrous, occasionally 
with elongate ascending pubescent branches nearly leatless below, 2 ft. 
or more in height. Lower leaves narrow-ovate, irregularly crenate, 
obtuse, glabrous, 5 in. long, narrowed into broadly amplexicaul petioles. 
Inflorescence glabrous, glaucous. Flowers red or dark-yellow, in com- 
pact 2-3-chotomous panicles, or on few-flowered peduncles from the 
upper nodes. Calyx-lobes glabrous, lanceolate, acute or subacute, 
somewhat patent, about 2 lines long, united at the base. Corolla-tube 
$ in, long, segments short, narrow-ovate acute. Carpels 3 in. long, 
