304 L. CRASSULACEE (BRITTEN). [ Kalanchoe. 
glabrous. Squamule brown, 2 lines long, subacute. Seeds oblong, 
dark brown, 4 line long. 
_ Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
10. K. Welwitschii, Britten. Whole plant glabrous. Stem 
cylindrical, erect, 83-5 ft. high, nearly an inch thick at the base, glau- 
cous. Radical leaves large, 8-10 in. long, petiolate, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, obtuse, rounded at the base, crenate-dentate or coarsely 
dentate, teeth purple-margined ; petioles 14-3 in. long. Upper leaves 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, entire or very slightly crenate, the 
uppermost scarcely petiolate. Bracts lanceolate, subacute. Flowers 
bright sulphur, in a diffuse corymbose panicle. Calyx-lobes green, 
broadly lanceolate, long acuminate, }—2 in. long, united at the base. 
Corolla-tube } in. long, limb 2-1 in. across, segments ovate, abruptly 
acuminate and aristate. Squamule brown, 3 lines long, entire, mem- 
branous at the tip, subacute. Carpels nearly as long as the corolla- 
tube. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Also cultivated by the natives. 
Var. gracilituba. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, smaller than those of K. Welwitschw; 
inflorescence corymbose, branches elongated, subdistichous; tube of corolla 1 in. oF 
more long, much exceeding the carpels. Flowers bright orange-yellow. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Libongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
1l. K. crenata, Huw. Syn. 109; DC. Prod. iii. 395. Root thick, 
fibrous. Stem 2-6 ft. high, glabrous throughout or hispidulous in the 
upper portion. Leaves 2-3 in. long, oblong or roundish ovate oF 
spathulate, coarsely crenate, obtuse, cuneate at the base, glabrous, all 
but the uppermost distinctly petiolate, petioles 1-14 in. long; upper 
leaves sometimes entire. Inflorescence glabrous or hispidulous in tri- 
chotomous many-flowered axillary and terminal cymes ; peduncles of 
axillary cymes long, the lowest 6—7 in. in length; internodes 3-6 in. 
leng. Bracts narrow, lanceolate, petiolate ; bracteoles setaceous. Calyx- 
lobes glabrous or hispidulous and viscid, lanceolate, acute, very slightly 
cohering at the base, 2-3 lines long; pedicels slender, 2—3 lines long. 
Flowers bright yellow or orange; tube } in. long, glabrous or pubes- 
cent ; limb-segments oblong-lanceolate, acute. Squamule linear, 1-1} 
lines long. Carpels narrow, 3 lines long—Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 879; 
Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 108. K. egyptiaca, DC. Pl. Grasses, t. 64; Prod. 
ii. 395 ; Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 192. K. Petitiana, A. Rich. 
Fl. Abyss. i. 311 (ex. deser.). K. spathulata, DC. Pl. Grasses, t. 69; 
Prod. iti, 395. K. Verea, Pers. Syn. i. 446. K. brasiliensis, Camb. FI. 
Bras. Merid. ii. 196. Cotyledon erenata, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 49; Sims, 
Bot. Mag. t. 1436. ©. Verea, Jaeq. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 435. C. deficiens, 
Forsk. Fl. Egret. 89. Of the figures quoted those of DC. and Vent. 
represent the glabrous form; those of Jacq. and Sims the hispidulous 
variety. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! W. Winwood Reade! Camaroons 
mountains, 3-7000 ft., Mann! 
