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KALANCHOE FARINACEA. 
Native of Sucotra. 
: Nat. Ord, CRASSULACE, 
Genus Katancuor, Adans.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant, vol. i. p. 659.) 
Katancuor farinacea ; fruticulus robustas, 6-12-pollicaris, canle crasso erecto 
v. basi decumbente subtereti transverse ruguloso, foliis 14-2-pollicaribus 
confertis decussatim oppositis sessilibus obovatis apice rotundatis hasi 
angustatis crasse carnosis pallide virescentibus albo-pruinatis utrinque 
concoloribus marginibus subroseis, floribus in paniculas pedunculatas 
terminales subcorymbosas dispositis breviter pedicellatis, calycis minuti 
segmentis triangularibus, corollw 4-poll. longew tubo tereti infra medium 
Havo dein lobisque oblongis obtusis recurvis flammeis, filamentis brevibus, 
antheris parvis seriei superioris vix exsertis, disci sqoamulis lineari- 
oblongis obtusis, carpellis angustis tubum corolla squantibus in stylos 
graciles attenuatis, stigmatibus minutis. 
K, farinacea, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. xi. (1882) p. 512; et in 
Trans, vol. xxi. (1888) p. 91. 
K. farinacea is one of the many new and interesting 
plants discovered in Socotra by Dr. I. B. Balfour, 
during his exploration of that island in 1880, where he 
describes it as being common in crevices of limestone rocks, 
_It is one of four species found there by him, of which 
three were new to science. More recently, in 1897, seeds 
of it, from which the specimen here figured was raised, 
were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by the late Mr. 
Theodore Bent. It flowered in a greenhouse in August, 
1900, and continued flowering for two months. 
Descr.—A stout, erect, sparingly branched, succulent 
shrub, with mealy white branches, leaves, and panicle. 
Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, sessile, 
spreading, one and a half to two inches long, obovate, 
narrowed at the base, concave, quite entire, tip rounded, 
very thick, pale green beneath the thin covering of mealy 
pubescence, margins faintly rosy. Panicle terminal, sub- 
corymbiform; rhachis and branches stout; bracts small, 
oblong, fleshy. Flowers shortly pedicelled, erect, one-half to 
three-quarters of an inch long. Calyx minute, obtusely 
four-lobed, Corvlla narrowly campanulate; tube about 
Arnrit Ist, 1901. 
