M. cuAssuLAci:.!:. 407 



elliptic-spatluilate, roiindeil or obtuse, gradually tapering to a long base, 

 coarsely crenate-serrate, pale yellowish-green. Flowers numerous, in 

 large flat-topped trichotomous corymbose cymes; bracts linear-lanceolate. 

 Calyx ^-^ in. long, divided nearly to the base, glabrous; segments 

 narrowly lanceolate, y'^ in. broad at the base, very acuminate. Corolla 

 i-| in. long, yellow ; tube inflated, glabrous ; lobes broadly lanceolate, 

 very acute. Ilypogynous scales j^y in. long, narrow-linear, usually acute. 

 Follicles glabrous. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 14-1: ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Kat. v. 11 (1898) p. G3G.— Flowers : Xov. 

 DixcAN : bills near Satara, Woodrow. 



4. Kalanchoe olivacea, Dalz. in Dah. 6,- Gibs. Bomh. Fl. (18G1) 

 p. 313. AVholo plant of an olive-brown color ; stem 1 ft. high, terete, 

 glabrous. Leaves 3|-o by 1-2 in., ovate, elliptic, or broadly lanceolate, 

 irregularly crenate-serrate, fleshy, dotted with blood-red spots, glabrous, 

 the upper leaves the smaller. Flowers in paniculate cymes ; pedicels 

 densely clothed with glandular viscid hairs. Calyx fV-| in. long, 

 glandular-hairy ; lobes lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Corolla white, 

 sometimes slightly tinged with pink (especially when fading), |-| in. 

 long ; tube clothed outside with glandular hairs ; segments \-^ in. long, 

 ovate, acute, apiculate, glandular-hairy outside. Hypogynous scales ^ in. 

 long, white, linear, slightly bifid at apex. Follicles glabrous. — Flowers : 

 Oct.-Dec. 



Deccan : along the hill-side above tlie Ghat road from Wai to Pancli^ani abundant, 

 Cookel, Bhidel, Dabell cf Gibson, H. M. Birdwood; Pandiighar lull I'ort near Wai, 

 Balzdl tf- Gibson; Singhad, NainiC] N. Deccaii hills, Ritchie. S. M. Couxtry: hilb 

 near Belgaum, lUfchic, ;ioU ! 



Note. — The description of this plant, owing no doubt to its having appeared in the 

 addenda and eorrigcnda to the ' Bombay Flora ' of Dalzell & Gibson {l. c), has hitherto 

 entirely escaped notice. No allusion to it is made in the 'Index Kewensis' nor 

 apparently in any other botanical publication. I have, in my own Herbarium, several 

 specimens obtained from the cliff at Panchgani, where Dalzell found it, and Mr. Gammie 

 lias recently sent me a large number of specimens from the same localit}- collected by 

 Mr. Bhide, the Herbarium Keeper in the College of Science at Poona. There lias 

 been but one specimen of the plant iu Herb. Kew. which was collected by Ritchie 

 (n. 330, marked nov. sp.) on hills near Belgaum. Mr. C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 13. I. V. 2, p. 415, places Ritchie's ])lant under K. I)rasiliensis, Camb., a plant which in 

 his original description (Fl. Bras. Merid. v. 2 (1829) p. 196) Cambessedes describes as 

 growing near the sea, and farther describes the flowers as having a yellow tube and a 

 rose-colored limb, characters which would seem to be sufficiently distinctive. Ritchie, 

 in a note attached to his specimen in Herb. Kew., describes the flowers of his plant as 

 white, and I can add my testimony to the correctness of Eitchie's statement, as I have 

 seen the plant growing in abundance along the Panchgani Ghat, where its white 

 flowers were a conspicuous object among the rocks. 



5. Kalanchoe Bhidei, T. Cooke. "Whole plant of a reddish color, 

 glabrous ; stem erect, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves 24-3|| by 1^-2 in., elliptic, 

 coarsely and irregidarly crenate-serrate, tinged" with red, running down 

 into a flattened petiole which is enlarged at the base. Flowers numerous, 

 in copious cymose panicles ; pedicels slender, i-| in. long ; bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, Yu— g in. long. Calyx divided to the base : lobes y\-| in. 

 long, J,y iu. broad at the base, triangular, acute, appressed to the corolla, 

 glabrous, eglandular. Corolla h-f^ in. long, pure white; segments \ in. 

 long, J^ in, broad, oblong or slightly obovate, acute, apiculate, glabrous. 

 IIypOo.^''^t)us scales \ in. long, linear, acute. Follicles glabrous. — 

 Flowers : 2sov. 



