Tab. 7333. 

 KALANCHOE marmoeata. 



Native of Abyssinia. 



Nat. Ord. Crassulace^. 

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



Kalanchoe marmorata; glaberrima, caule robusto ramoao tereti, foliia 

 magnis crassissimis obovatis v. obovato-oblongis subsessilibus crenatis 

 maculatis apice rotundatis, cymis trichotomis, floribus crasse pedicellatis 



f>eduacnlis pedicellisque albo virescentibus v. purpurascentibus, calycis 

 aciniis pollicaribus lanoeolatis flavo-viridibus, corolla tubo 4-pollieari 

 angulato baai inflato, limbi 2-poll. lati lobis ovatis candato-acuminatis 

 albis, squamulis linearibus, antheris sessilibus biseriatis, sty lis filiformibus. 

 K. marmorata, Baker in Gard. Chron. (1892) vol. ii. p. 300. 



K. grandiflora, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, vol. i. p. 310. Sprenger in Garten~ 

 flora, t. 1394. Walp. Ann. Bot. vol. ii. p. 668 (non Wight if Am.). 



Specimens of this noble species were sent to Kew for 

 figuring in this work by my friend Thos. Hanbury, Esq., 

 F.L.S., from his garden at Palazzo Orengo, Mortola, near 

 Ventimiglia. Unfortunately an octavo plate does not 

 admit of a full-sized figure of the fully developed leaves, 

 which attain a length of eight to ten inches by four to five 

 in breadth, are obovate, narrowed into a very broad short 

 petiole, and are of a light green blotched with purple ; the 

 midrib in the upper surface towards the base bears 

 sometimes short thick ear-shaped lobes. 



K. marmorata was discovered in 1839 or thereabouts by 

 M. Petit, a botanist sent out with a French expedition of 

 discovery into Abyssinia, in the province of Ifat, and was 

 published by A. Richard as K. grandiflora, overlooking the 

 fact that this name had been previously applied by Wight 

 to an Indian species which is figured on Plate 5460 of this 

 work. 



Mr. Hanbury sends me the following information re- 

 garding his plant, communicated to him by Professor 

 Penzig, Director of the " Genoa Botanical Gardens." K. 



Jan laky 1st, 1894. 



