PLATE 320. 



KALANCHOE LONGIPLOEA, Schlechter, MSS. 

 Natural Order, CRASSULACEAE. 



A succulent perennial, with yellow flowers. Stems quadrangular, glabrous, 

 elongate in flower, reaching to 18 to 24 inches long, leafy below, lower nodes f to 



1 inch, upper ones 2 to 3 inches apart. Leaves opposite, decussate, exstipulate, 

 subsessile, ovate to oblong or oblong-ovate, tapering to base, obtuse at apex, 

 margin coarsely crenato-serrate in upper and medial portions, entire below; thick, 

 fleshy, glabrous, veins immersed ; the lowest ones 3 inches long by 2f inches wide, 

 upper ones 1 to 1^ by ^ to finch. Inflorescence cymoso-paniculate, lower branches 



2 to 3 inches long, upper gradually shorter, each division with a depauperated leaf 

 or bract at its base ; pedicels ^ to f inch long. Calyx 4-parted, sepals minute, 

 acute. Corolla gamopetalous, salver-shaped, 4-lobed, tube swollen at base, 4- 

 angled, greenish-yellow, 7 to 8 lines long, lobes ovate, spreading, 2 lines long, 

 yellow. Stamens 8, on corolla tube, and adnate to it, those opposite the corolla 

 lobes free only at throat, the alternate sub-sessile scarcely exserted. Anthers 

 ovate, 2-celled, basifixed, and having a minute gland at apex. Squamae 4, linear, 

 2 lines long. Carpels 4, elongate. Styles linear, thickly covered with minute 

 tubercles ; stigmas obtuse. Follicles 5 to 6 lines long, many seeded. 



Habitat : NATAL : Between Grey town and Weeuen, near the brook Dumbeni, 

 about 3,000 to 4,000 feet alt., April,' Wood, No. 4439. 



Drawn and described from a plant growing in Botanic Gardens, Durban, 

 which was brought from Dumbeni by J. M. Wood in 1891. 



A rather ornamental plant, suitable for rockwork and similar situations, where 

 it forms clumps of 3 feet or more in diameter, and bears its flowers profusely 

 during the summer months. It is a somewhat rare plant, and the natives have no 

 distinctive name for it. 



Fig. 1, flower ; 2, calyx ; 3, corolla opened, showing insertion of stamens ; 4, 

 a stamen ; 5, carpels and squamae ; 6, cross-section of carpel ; all enlarged. 



