Kalanchoe. | L. CRASSULACEH (BRITTEN). 395 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Yedjou, Petit. (K. Petitiana, Rich). 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Pungo Andongo, sporadically in rocky places and by 
road-sides, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Also at the Cape. 
The specimens from Sierra Leone and Angola are hispidulous: those from the Cama- 
roons are quite glabrous. I see no grounds for separating from the hispidulous fourm of 
this species K. brasiliensis, Camb., the onl representative of the genus in Tropical 
America. To the glabrous form I refer R egyptiaca, DC., of which I have seen no 
authentic specimens, but which, from the figure in Pl. Grasses, seems to differ from 
K. crenata merely in the dentate leaves, which are described as “ crenate-sinuate,”’ and 
orange flowers (as they appear also in Mann’s specimens) ; K. Petitiana, which Richard 
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describes as “very near K. egyptiaca and K. spathulata ;’’ and K. spathulata, also 
unknown to me, save from the figure and description in the same work, which may be 
a distinct species, but agrees with the figure of K. egyptiaca, except that the flowers 
are bright yellow, and the panicle is looser. : 
a. wegyptiaca is an Arabian plant, cultivated in Egypt; K. spathulata is from 
ina. 
12. K. stenosiphon, Britten. Stems terete, whole plant glabrous, 
1-2 ft. high. Leaves entire (only imperfect ones seen). Internodes 
2-4 in. long. Panicle elongate, oblong, lax. Peduncles long, ascend- 
ing, 2-5-flowered ; pedicels 44 in. or more in length. Calyx-segments 
somewhat membranous, united at the very base, lanceolate, subacute, 
about } in. long. Corolla-tube 4 in. or more in length, narrow conical, 
much inflated and truncate below, very slender in the upper portion. 
Limb-segments narrow, linear-lanceolate, 2 lines long, acuminate. 
Squamulce linear-acuminate, 2 lines long. Carpels 4—5 lines long. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
13. K. coccinea, Welw. mss. Stem 2-4 ft. high, glabrous below, 
more or less hispid above with flaccid glandular hairs. Lower leaves 
coarsely and irregularly crenate-dentate, glabrous or hairy, ovate, ob- 
tuse, petiolate, 3-4 in. long; petioles 1 in. or more in length. Upper 
leaves linear-lanceolate, scarcely petiolate, subamplexicaul, obtuse. 
Internodes 4—6 in. long ; firactedles linear, acute, hispid. Inflorescence 
more or less hispid ; flowers scarlet or bright orange, shortly pedicellate, 
im many-flowered erect or ascending distichous racemes, collected 
in broad terminal panicles; lower peduncles nearly 1 ft. long, with 
lowers in rounded corymbose panicles. Calyx pubescent, segments 
lanceolate, acute, 2-3 lines long, united at the base. Corolla-tube } in. 
long, somewhat membranous, hispid, or sometimes nearly glabrous. 
Limb 4 in. across, segments deltoid-ovate, acuminate, glabrous or pubes- 
cent beneath. Squamule linear, whitish, acute, about 2 lines jong 
Carpels united at the base, adpressed for about half their length. Seeds 
black or very dark brown. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Var. subsessilis. Stem hispid, except at the very base. Lower leaves suborbicular 
upper oblanceolate. Inflorescence densely hispid, with glandular fuliginous hairs. 
F lowers scarcely pedicellate, in long erect or ascending distinctly unilateral racemes, 
forming a much-branched, dense terminal panicle, sometimes a foot long. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith! Perhaps a distinct species. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mangarya Hills, Dr. Meller! 
