LABEL (OUT, 
KLEINIA GRANXTII. 
Native of FE, trop. Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Comrosira.—Tribe SENECIONIDEA. 
Genus Kveinta, Haw.; Senecio sect. Kleinia (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. 
vol, ii. p. 449.) 
Kuernta Grantii; glaberrima, carnosa, rhizomate nodoso, caule robusto 
decumbente folioso dein adscendente, foliis confertis 2-24 poll. longis 
ovalibus v. spathulato-oblongis obtusis (exsiccitatis apiculatis) integerrimis 
in petiolum crassum angustatis crasse carnosis pallide viridibus utrinque 
concoloribus, pedunculo terminali 10-pollicari robusto nudo infra medium 
pallide purpureo superne pallide viridi ramoso, ramis 3 3~4-pollicaribus 
erectis viridibus monocephalis squamis paucis parvis lanceolatis mem- 
branaceis deciduis instructis, capitulis erectis magnis, involucro % poll. 
longo cylindraceo } poll. diam. herbaceo basi nudo rotundato v. subin- 
truso, bracteis ad 12 3 poll. longis glaberrimis levibus (exsiccatis sul catis) 
marginibus coherentibus apicibus liberis lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus 
bracteis longioribus in capitulum hemisphericum sanguineum 2 poll. diam. 
confertis radii femineis disci hermaphroditis, corolle tubo elongato gracili, 
lobis lanceolatis obtusis papillosis, antherarum connectivo elongato, 
stylorum ramis fl. fem. elongatis Jonge penicillatis recurvis, fl. hermaph. 
brevioribus, acheniis teretibus glabris, pappo albo involucro vix excedente. 
Noronia Grantii, Oliv. & Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iii. p. 407. 
N. sempervirens, Aschers. in Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. p. 152. 
Senecio (Kleinia) longipes, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 217. 
Kleinia Grantii was discovered by the late Lt.-Col. 
Grant, during his adventurous journey with Capt. Speke, 
in the Usagora district, or province, of what is now German 
Hast Africa. The precise locality of the specimen in the 
Kew Herbarium is M‘btmi, lat. 6° 56’ 30” 8., which is on 
the coast range. The species is not indicated in Col. 
Grant’s enumeration of his collections in the “ Linnean 
Transactions ” (vol. xxix. 1875), but in a note attached 
to the specimen he refers to the Appendix to Speke’s 
narrative, where the plant is alluded to as “ Kleinia ? sp., 
diminutive, with pale port-wine flowers. Alt. 1750 ft., 
fl. October.” It has since been found in Abyssinia by 
Schweinfurth and de Riva; and more recently in Somali- 
land, on the Golis range, by Miss Edith Cole, whose 
DecemBer Ist, 1899. 
