Kalanchoe.] l. CRASsuLACEiE (britten). 395 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Yedjou, Petit. (K. Petitiana, Rich). 



Iiower Guinea. _ Angola, Pungo Andongo, sporadically in rocky places and by 

 road-sides, Dr. WelwitschI 



Also at the Cape. 



The specimens from Sierra Leone and Angola are hispidulous : those from the Cama- 

 roons are quite glabrous. I see no grounds for separating from the hispidulous form of 

 this species K. brasiliensis, Camb., the only representative of the genus in Tropical 

 America. To the glabrous form I refer K. cegyptiaca, DC, of which 1 have seen no 

 authentic specimens, but which, from the figure in PI. Grasses, seems to differ from 

 K. crenata merely in the dentate leaves, which are described as "crenate-sinuate,'' a^nd 

 orange flowers (as they appear also in Mann's specimens) ; K. Petitiana, which Richard 

 describes as "very near K. cegyptiaca and K. spathulata ;" and K. spathulata, also 

 unknown to me, save from the figure and description in the same work, which may be 

 a distinct species, but agrees with the figure of K. cegyptiaca, except that the flowers 

 are bright yellow, and the panicle is looser. 



K. cegyptiaca is an Arabian plant, cultivated in Egypt; K. spathulata is from 

 China. 



12. K. stenosiphon, Britten. Stems terete, whole plant glabrous, 

 1—2 ft. high. Leaves entire (only imperfect ones seen). Internodes 

 2-4 in. long. Panicle elongate, oblong, lax. Peduncles long, ascend- 

 ing, 2-5-flowered ; pedicels \-\ in. or more in length. Calyx-segments 

 somewhat membranous, united at the very base, lanceolate, subacute, 

 about \ in. long. Corolla-tube | in. or more in length, narrow conical, 

 much inflated and truncate below, very slender in the upper portion. 

 Limb-segments narrow, linear-lanceolate, 2 lines long, acuminate. 

 Squamulse linear-acuminate, 2 lines long. Carpels 4—5 lines long. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 



13. K. coccinea, Welw. mss. Stem 2-4 ft. high, glabrous below, 

 more or less hispid above with flaccid glandular hairs. Lower leaves 

 coarsely and irregularly crenate-dentate, glabrous or hairy, ovate, ob- 

 tuse, petiolate, 3-4 in. long; petioles 1 in. or more in length. Upper 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, scarcely petiolate, subamplexicaul, obtuse. 

 Internodes 4-6 in. long ; bracteoles linear, acute, hispid. Inflorescence 

 more or less hispid ; flowers scarlet or bright orange, shortly pedicellate, 

 in many-flowered erect or ascending distichous racemes, collected 

 in broad terminal panicles ; lower peduncles nearly 1 ft. long, with 

 flowers in rounded corymbose panicles. Calyx pubescent, segments 

 lanceolate, acute, 2-3 lines long, united at the base. Corolla-tube J in. 

 long, somewhat membranous, hispid, or sometimes nearly glabrous. 

 Limb j- in. across, segments deltoid-ovate, acuminate, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent beneath. Squamulse linear, whitish, acute, about 2 lines long. 

 Carpels united at the base, adpressed for about half their length. Seeds 

 black or very dark brown. 



Ii ower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Dr. Wehvitsch ! 



Var. subsessilis. Stem hispid, except at the very base. Lower leaves ruborbicular 

 upper oblanceolate. Inflorescence densely hispid, with glandular fuliginous hairs. 

 JBiowers scarcely pedicellate, in long erect or ascending distinctly unilateral racemes, 

 forming a much-branched, dense terminal panicle, sometimes a foot long. 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith I Perhaps a distinct species. 



Mozamb. Distr. Manganya Hills, Dr. Mellerl 



