Tas. 7678. 
KALANCHOE tayrsif.ora. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. CRASSULACE. 
Genus Katancuor, Adans. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.) 
Katancuor thyrsiflora; herba crasse carnosa, glaberrima, glauca, caule erecto 
tereti folioso, foliis decussatim oppositis sessilibus obovato-spathulatis 
obtusis integerrimis ‘enerviis utrinque concoloribus inferioribus 3-4 poll. 
longis superioribus gradatim minoribus, inflorescentia terminali sessili 
oblonga cylindracea 6 poll. longa glauca e racemulis suberectis axi_ 
communi densissime confertis constante, floribus 34 poll. longis breviter 
edicellatis, bracteolis parvis oblongis obtusis, sepalis corolla ter breviori- 
Sas linearibus obtusis, corollz tubo ovoileo-oblongo tereti glauco-viridi ore 
constricto, lobis 4 parvis orbiculari-ovatis subacuti-patenti-recurvis intus 
aureis, disci glandulis oblongis retusis, staminibus 8 ore corollw biseri- 
atis, filamentis brevibus, antheris fere rotundatis apiculatis, carpellis 3 
elongatis in stylos breves attenuatis, stigmatibus parvis subsimplicibus 
truncatis. 
K. thyrsiflora, Harv. § Sond. Fl. Capens. vol, ii. p, 380. 
K. alternans, Eckl. §& Zey. ex Harv. & Sond. lc. 
Kalanchoe thyrsiflora was introduced from the Cape of 
Good Hope into the gardens of Commendatore Hanbury, 
La Mortola, by whom seeds were distributed to various 
botanical gardens in 1891. It has been in cultivation at 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, since 1891, and was first flowered 
in the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens by Mr. 
Lynch, to whom I am indebted for sending me the fine 
‘specimen here figured. It is a native of the castern 
districts of the Cape Colony, where it was found first by 
Ecklon & Zeyher. There are also specimens in the Kew 
Herbarium from the Kei and Vaal rivers, from Basutoland, 
and from Inanda in Natal. In its native country it flowers 
in May; in England, in December. 
Descr.—A very stout, erect, pale glaucous green, quite 
glabrous, leafy herb, one to two and a half feet hich. 
Stem simple, terete, smooth, nearly an inch in diameter 
below the middle, and half an inch below the inflorescence. 
Leaves decussately opposite, in rather close pairs, lowest 
three to four inches long, gradually smaller upwards, 
sessile, obovate-spathulate, quite entire, tip rounded, thiek 
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