Tab. 7595. 



KALANCHOE flammea. 

 Native of Somaliland. 



Nat. Ord. Crassulace.e. 

 Genus Kalanchoe, Adans. (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant vol. i. p. 659.) 



Kalanchoe flammea; perennis, pedalis, ramosa, folioBa, glaberrima, foliis 

 obovato-oblongis obovatisve in petiolum crassnm angustatis crasse 

 carnosis apice rotundatis integerrimis v. obscure repando-crenatis pallide 

 viridibus vix glaucis, cymis corymbosis densifloris 4-5-poll. longis et latis, 

 pedunculo 4-5-pollicari, ramis primariis 2-pollicaribus, pedicellis £-£ 

 pollicaribus, bracteis parvis linearibus obtusiusculis caducis, cadycis 

 4-partiti segmentis £ poll, longis lineari-lanceolatis subacutis basi liberis, 

 corollas tubo calyce duplo longiore 4-gono flavido, limbi f poll, lati lobis 

 late ovatis acutis rubro-aurantiacis, glandulis disci linearibus ^ poll, 

 longis, carpellis J-poll. longis, stylis brevibus. 



K. flammea, Stapfin Kew Bulletin, 1897, p. 266. 



The genus Kalanchoe numbers about fifty known species, 

 chiefly African, with a few Indian, and will probably be 

 largely increased, now that the collection of plants in 

 tropical Africa is being zealously prosecuted. Only three 

 species have been hitherto figured in this work, namely, 

 8". crenata, DC. (Cotyledon cfenata, tab. 1436) ; K. marrno- 

 rata, t. 7333, and K. grandiflora, t. 5460, none of which 

 can compare with K. flammea, whether in the colour of the 

 flower, or in the length of time that the plant continues 

 in flower (two months), on which account it proves to be 

 a notable addition to the Succulent House flora. 



Seeds of K. flammea, collected in Somaliland by Mrs. 

 Lort Phillips and Miss Edith Cole, were presented to the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, in May, 1895, the plants raised 

 from which flowered in a sunny green-house in July, 

 1897, and ripened their seeds. 



Descr. — Whole plant a foot high, stout, erect, branching, 

 pale green, but hardly glaucous. Leaves two to three and 

 a half inches long, including the stout petiole, obovate, or 

 obovate-oblong, thickly fleshy, quite entire, or obscurely 

 crenulate. Cyme corymbiform, four to five inches long 

 and broad ; peduncle four to five inches long, strict, erect, 

 Ma.t 1st, 1898. 



