Tab. 7831. 

 KALANCHOE somaliensis. 

 Native of Somaliland. 



Nat. Ord. Oeassulace^. 

 Genus Kalanchoe, Adam.; (Benth. ^ Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 659.) 



Kalanchoe somaliensis ; glaberrima, caule robasto tereti ramoao foliisqne 

 pallide glanco-viridibus, foliis inferioribua 6 poll, longia basi lata 

 sessilibug obovatis apice rotundatia crenato-serralatis crasse coriaceia 

 ntrinque concoloribus, nervia obacuris, superioribus lineari-oblongis apice 

 crenatis, cyma ampla trichotoma 6-10 poll, alta et lata, ramia ramalisque 

 eloagatis robustis, bracteis \~^ poll, longis ovatis oblongis obovatisve 

 patulis integria albo-virescentibus, pedicellia ^-1 poll, longis, alabastris 

 roseo-tinctis, sepalis erectia lanceolatis acutis ^-g poll, longia pallide 

 fusco-rubris, corolla alba flavo tincta, tiibo 2| pollicari, limbi segmentia 

 ovato-lanceolatia acuminatia, antheris subsessilibna oblongis, disci procea- 

 subua filiformibua sepalis paullo longioribus, carpellia anguatis, stylis 

 filiformibua elongatis. 



The plant from whicli the accompanying drawing was 

 made was, as Sir Edmund Loder informs me, collected by 

 himsfelf in 1890, while hunting for big game in the Golis 

 range, near Argan, in Somaliland. He adds that on the 

 same day he killed a specimen of the Greater Koodoo and 

 a Lion. It flowered in a warm house of the Royal Grardens, 

 Kew, in February, 1901. Specimens of the same species, 

 collected by Miss Edith Cole, when accompanying Mr. and 

 Mrs. Lort Philhps in the same country, are in the Herbarium 

 of the Royal Gardens. K. somaliensis is the sixth species of 

 the genus figured in this work within the last ten years, 

 of which two, K, flammea, Stapf, t. 7595, and that here 

 figured are natives of Somaliland; one, K. marmorata, 

 t. 7333, is Abyssinian ; two are Arabian, K. Bentii, C. H. 

 Wright, t. 7765, and K. farinacea, Balf. f. t. 7769 ; and 

 one, K. thyrsiflora, Harv. & Sond., t. 7678, is S. African. 



Descr. — An erect, stout, branching shrub, of a uniformly 

 glaucous, greenish- white colour, except the flowers. Leaver 

 four to six inches long, sessile by a broad base, obovate 

 or oblong-obovate, crenate-serrulate, tip rounded, thickly 

 fleshy, nerves very indistinct, uppermost at the base of 

 the inflorescence much smaller, linear-oblong, entire or 

 April 1st, 1902, 



