Tap. 7659, 
KLEINIA peyputa. 
Native of Somaliland and Arabia. 
Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe SENECIONIDEX. 
Genus Ktietnia, Linn.; Senecio (Kietnta) (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
vol. ti. p. 449.) 
Kurinia pendula; glaberrima, fere aphylla, caule decumbente carnoso miro 
modo tortuoso e articulis paucis crasse carnosis divaricatis constante, 
articulis cylindricis 4-15 poll. longis $-3 poll. diam. incurvis v. inflexis 
sparse spinulosis luride viridibus striatis basi rotundatis apice attenuatis 
- superiore areola parva inferiori infra apicem adnata, foliis apicibus 
nascentibus articulorum fasciculatis : longis teretibus carnosis 
demum in spinulas rigidas decurvas tumidas mutatis, pedunculis 
1-2 terminalibus, unifloris bracteis paucis linearibus sparsis, capitulo multi- 
floro, involucri pollicaris cylindrici basi nudi bracteis anguste linearibus 
acutis striatis tubis florum brevioribus, floribus miniato-aurantiacis, 
styli ramis fl, radii lineari-elongatis obtusis, fl .disci brevioribus cono parvo 
terminatis, acheniis hirtulis, pappi setis tenuissimis subscaberulis albis. 
K. ? pendula, DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 339. 
Cacalia pendula, Forsk. Fl. Atgypt. Arab. p. 145. Vah!, Symb. vol. iii. p. 90. 
Senecio pendulus, Sch. Bip. in Flora, vol. xxviii. (1845) p. 500. 
S. Gunnisii, Baker in Kew Bullet. 1895, p. 217. 
Notonia trachycarpa, Klotz. (Pl. Bind.) in Sitzh. Acad. Wien. Math.-Nat. li. 
Abth. ii. (1865) 370, t.8. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. iii. p. 408, excl. syn. 
omn. 
Kaad, Arab. 
A very singular plant, the distorted form of which, as 
shown in the reduced figure given in the accompanying 
plate, suggests the idea of its not being merely tortuous, 
but distorted. The serpentine branches of the stem are 
divaricate at all manner of angles, are curved or twisted in 
various ways, and are superposed on one another, with the 
upper never terminating the lower, but attached at its 
side below the apex by a very narrow point of junction. 
K. pendula is a native of dry, rocky mountains in Arabia, 
Abyssinia, and Somaliland. It was discovered in Yemen 
by the Swedish naturalist Forskoel, in 1762, and has been 
collected in Hadramaut by Bent, in Abyssinia by Schim- 
per, and in Somaliland by Hildebrandt, and by Mrs. Lort 
Phillips and Miss Edith Cole. 
A specimen was brought by these ladies to the Cam- 
bridge Botanical Gardens, where it flowered in October, 
1893, and was kindly sent to Kew for figuring in this 
Junr Isr, 1899. 
