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Tas. 5590. 
KLEINIA ruueeys. 
Brilliant-flowered Kleinia. 
Nat. Ord. Composrtrm.—SyNGENESIA AZQUALIS. 
Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, eradiatum, fere semper homoga- 
mum, floribus omnibus tubulosis 5-dentatis. Receptaculum planum. In- 
volucrum 1-seriale, polyphyllum, bracteolis parvis spe calyculatum. Styli 
rami cono brevi basi ciliato terminati, Achenia erostria. Pappus setosus, 
subscaber, pluriserialis—Herbe et trutices Africana, carnose, sepe glauce, 
ramis teretibus v. angulatis cicatricatis. Folia alterna, integerrima v. stnuato- 
dentata. Flores albi flavi awrantiaci v. subminiati. 
Kurta fulgens ; suffruticosa, glaberrima, glauca, ramis teretibus, foliis 
breviter petiolatis obovato-oblongis acutiusculis distanter obtuse ser- 
ratis utrinque glaucis carnosis, nervis tenuibus, pedunculis sub-1-floris 
bracteatis, bracteis remotiusculis lineari-oblongis, capitulis ecalycula- 
tis homogamis, involucri squamis linearibus acutis, floribus lete mi- 
niato-aurantiacis. 
The genus Kleinia consists of some twenty species, all na- 
tives of South Africa, and many of them forming handsome 
plants, well worthy of cultivation in the succulent: house. 
Amongst these is the subject of the accompanying Plate, 
which was sent from Port Natal, by Mr. Plant, to our inde- 
fatigable horticulturist W. W. Saunders, F.R.S., and in whose 
succulent-house it flowered in May of the present year. The 
species does not exist in our herbaria, nor is it described in 
Harvey and Sonder’s ‘ Flora Capensis.’ There is, however, a 
very similar plant in cultivation, brought from Angola by 
Dr. Welwitsch, which however, not having flowered, cannot 
be identified with it. 
Descr. A small, succulent, suffruticose plant, about two to 
three feet high in our houses, everywhere covered with a 
pale-green glaucous bloom. Stems branched, terete, brittle. 
Leaves succulent, four to six inches long, with short, broad, de- 
current petioles, obovate-oblong, subacute, remotely bluntly 
serrate, uniformly smooth, glaucous and green on both sur- 
faces, veins very indistinct. Flowering peduncles four to eight 
AuGusT Isr, 1866. 
