marmorata was found, firstly in seed only, by Professor 

 Schweinfurth, on Mt. Lalamba, near Keren, in March, 

 1891 ; and on a second expedition to the same mountain 

 the specimens were procured which were received at the 

 Genoa Gardens. The plant grew at the fort, and in the 

 fissures of a coarse dark granite, north oi the fort, and at 

 above 9500 feet alt. The species sustains, dryness so 

 well, that specimens collected March 20th, and packed in 

 a little moss, bore the long journey very well, and arrived 

 (at Genoa) in a capital state on the 1st May." 



Mr. Han bury further informs me that K. marmorata 

 has not flowered at Genoa, but has abundantly in the drier 

 and sunnier climate of Mortola. 



Descr. — A very stout low branching shrub. Leaves 

 opposite, six to eight inches long, obovate, narrowed into a 

 short broad petiole, pale green blotched with purple, mar- 

 gins undulate or crenate ; young smaller, orange-green 

 with blood-red spots, and more deeply crenate. Floivers 

 in large branched compound panicles ; peduncles stout, 

 pedicels one to one and a half inch long, and small subulate 

 bracts pale flesh-coloured. Sepals one to one and a half 

 inch long, lanceolate, erect. Gorolla creamy-white, tube 

 three inches long or more, slender, obscurely angled and 

 twisted ; lobes ovate, caudate-acuminate. Stamens eight, 

 in two rows within the mouth of the corolla, filaments 

 adnate to the corolla ; anthers oblong, tipped by the con- 

 nective. Dish of 4 erect threads. Ovary ovate-lanceolate, 

 tapering into 4 filiform styles with small capitate stigmas. 

 —J. D. H. 



Pig. 1, Upper part of corolla laid open, showing the stamens; 2 and 3, 

 anthers ; 1, ovary and disk threads ; — All enlarged. 



