| Tas. 7765. 
KALANCHOE Benti. 
Native of Southern Arabia. 
Nat. Ord. CRAsSULACE. 
Genus Katancuor, Adans,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.) 
Katancnor Bentii; frntex erectus, glaberrimus, caule elongato simplici tereti 
foliisque fusco-viridibus, foliis glancis decussatim oppositis sessilibus 3-6- 
poll. longis patenti-recurvis pugioniformibus crasse carnosis a latere 
compressis dorso rotundatis facie sulcatis ima basi tumidis semi-amplexi- 
caulibus medio ad 4 poll. latis dein sensim ad apicem acutam attenuatis, 
paviculw, ramulis subcorymbosis multifloris, bracteis bracteolisque 
angustis carnosis, floribus erectis pedicellatis, sepalis 4 patulis ovato- 
lanceolatis 3-$ poll. longis carnosulis luride viridibus, corolla albs tubo 
1} poll. longo subtetragono a basi tumido virescente 3 poll. diam. sensim 
attenuato, limbi lobis } poll. longis patenti-recurvis ovatis albis iotus 
papillosis alabastro roseis, disci squamulis filiformibus, antheris minutis 
oblongis, carpellis angustis in stylos graciles attenuatis. 
K. Beutii, 0. H. Wright mss. 
Kalanchoe Bentii was raised from seeds collected by the 
late Mr. Theodore Bent in the Hadramaut district of 
Southern Arabia in 1894, and sent to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew. It flowered in June, 1900. As a species it differs 
from all others in the form of the leaves. 
Descr.—Sitem in the specimen figured quite simple, three 
feet high, erect, slender, one inch in diameter, scarred at 
the closely set internodes, leafy for the upper third, terete, 
smooth, dull olive-green; upper internodes about an inch 
long. Leaves decussately opposite, thickly fleshy, three to 
six inches long, spreading and recurved, dagger-shaped, 
gradually contracted from the middle to the tumid, sessile, 
semi-amplexicaul base, and to the acute tip, laterally com- 
pressed, about half an inch thick in the middle, dorsally 
rounded, deeply grooved on the upper surface, margins 
rounded, dirty olive-green in colour, and glaucous. Panicle 
erect, many-fid., eight inches high; rhachis, branches and 
branchlets erecto-patent, terete; pedicels short; bracts 
and bracteoles linear, fleshy. Flowers sub-corymbose on 
the branches of the panicle, erect, an inch and a half long, 
white, with pink unexpanded corolla-lobes. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, a quarter to half an inch long, spreading, olive- 
Marcu list, 1901, 
