Tab. 7871. 

 KALANCHOE Kireii. 



Native of Nyassaland. 



Nat. Ord. CRASSULACEiE. 



G.'uus Kalanxiioe, Adans.; {Benth. & Eooh,f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p, 659). 



Kalanchoe, Kirkii; caule robusto tereti laxe glanduloso-piIoRO aimplici v. 

 ramoso, foliis oppositis petiolatia patenti-decurvis 3-i poll. longis ovatis 

 oblongis V. ovato-lanceolatis obtngis crenatis carnosis utrinque pilosulia 

 basi rotundatis, nervis utrinqne 5-6, snpremia angnatioribas floralibua 

 linearibna supra lj«te viridibus subtBS pallidiB, petiolo valido supra con- 

 cave, cymis trichotomia snbcorymbosis, glanduloso-pubescentibua multi- 

 floria, doribua confertis sessilibus secandis, bracteia linearibns, bracteolia 

 Bubulatis, sepalis ^ poll, longis lineari-oblongis aubacntis liberis gland u- 

 loso-pubescentibus, corollas tnbo | poll, longo, Hmbi |-J poll. diam. lobis 

 oblongis aurantiaco-rubris, etaminibua 8 v. 10 biseriatia v. 4 nniseriatis 

 antheris incluais, disci glandulia subulatia, carpellis 3-4 in stylos breves 

 attenuatis, stigmatibas capitellatia. 



K. Kirkii, N.E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. ii. p. 110. 



K. coccinea, Welw. var. subsesailis, Britt. in OUv. Fl. Trap. Afr, vol. ii. p. 

 395. 



Species of Kalanclioe of horticultural as well as botanical 

 interest have been introduced into cultivation of late with 

 remarkable rapidity. Of the nine species figured in the 

 Botanical Magazine, seven have been introduced within the 

 last ten years ; three from N.E. tropical Africa (Soma- 

 liland), K. marmorataj t. 7333, K, flammea, t. 7595, and 

 K. soinaliensis, t. 7831 ; one, S. Kirkii, from Central 

 Africa ; one from S. Africa, E. fhi/rsijlora, t. 7678, and 

 two from Arabia and Socotra, K. Bentiij t. 7765, and K, 

 farinacea, t. 7769. 



K. Kirkii is allied to K. crenata, Haw. (Cotyledon 

 n-enata, t. 1436), a native of Sierra Leone, with which it 

 is nearly identical in habit, foliage, calyx, and pubescence, 

 but K. crenata differs in the much longer and narrower 

 tube of the golden-yellow corolla. According to Mr. N. E. 

 Brown, it appears to be the same as a plant discovered 

 by Sir John Kirk, G.C.M.G., in 1858, near Shupauga, on 

 the Zambesi River, in Portuguese E. Africa, and found 

 afterwards in Nyassaland by Mr. Meller in 1861. The 

 specimen here figured was raised from seed in the garden 

 of Earl Fitzwilliam, Wentworth, Rotherham, from whom 



DfCEHBEB 1st, 1902, 



