Tas. 7987. 
KALANCHOE Dyent. 
Native of Nyasaland. 
Nat, Ord. CrassuLaces. 
Genus Katancnog, Adans.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.) 
Katanchor Dyeri; herba succulenta, 2-24 ped. alta, glabra, plus minusve 
glauca, foliis oppositis petiolatis ellipticis obtusis basi rotundatis vel 
cuneatis margine grosse crenato-dentatis petiolo 14-8 poll. longo alte 
canaliculato lamina 4-73 poll. longa 23-5 poll. lata, foliis superioribus 
bracteisque multo minoribus spathulato-obovatis vel lanceolatis obtusis 
vel subacutis integris, floribus tetrameris pedicellatis in cymas corym- | 
-bosas terminales dispositis, sepalis 33-6 lin. longis deltoideo-lanceolatis 
obtusis, corolle tubo 13~2 poll. longo basi 4-angulato pallide viridi, 
limbi lobis ?-1 poll. longis lanceolatis acutis albis, staminibus 8 biseriatis 
filamentis brevissimis antheris parvis luteis superioribus breviter exsertis, 
glandulis hypogynis filiformibus apice plus minusve bifidis albis, car- 
pellis lineari-lanceolatis in stylos longos filiformes attenuatis glabris 
stigmatibus capitatis. 
_K. Dyeri, N.E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 354. 
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This species of Kalanchoe is one of the finest that has 
yet been introduced into cultivation. It is allied to 
K. marmorata, Baker (B. M. t. 7333), K. somaliensis, 
Baker (t. 7881), and K. longiflora, A. Rich. These four 
handsome species are all natives of tropical Africa, and 
form a distinct group, characterized by their large, long- 
tubed, white flowers. 
K. Dyeri was raised at Kew from seeds sent in 1902, 
from Nyasaland, by Mr. J. McClounie, Director of the 
Scientific Department of British Central Africa. The 
plants first flowered in April, 1904, and have ripened 
seeds, from which young plants have been raised. 
Descr.—Plant two feet to two feet and a half high, 
with a stout stem about three-quarters of an inch thick 
at the base, glabrous in all parts and more or less 
glaucous on the green parts. Leaves opposite, very 
spreading, petiolate ; petiole one and a half to three inches 
long, four and a half to six lines broad and nearly as 
thick, sub-terete, slightly flattened above, dilated at the 
base, green, slightly tinted with purple and speckled 
with white; blade four to seven and a half inches long, 
December 1s7, 1904, 
