326 XLVii. CRASSULACE^. [Crassula 



Var. vaginata Engl. Pflh,nzen\v. Ost-Afrik, parsC. p. 189 (1895). 

 C. vaginata Eckl. & Zeyli. Enum. p. 298, n. 1903 (1837). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial herb ; rhizome tuberous, filled with 

 a red flesh inside, succulent throughout ; stem rose-reddish, hyaline - 

 subglandular ; leaves glaucous, squamulose-crenulate on the margin ; 

 flowers white ; calyx flat ; petals sub-connate at the base ; stamens 5, 

 with reddish anthers. In the fissures of the gigantic rocks, in damp 

 places, at Cabonda ; fl. end of Nov. 1856. No. 2479. 



HuiLLA. — Rhizome sub-napiform, with a few rather thick fibres 

 descending straight ; stem erect, cylindric-purplish, 1 to 2J ft. high ; 

 primordial leaves when fully developed narrowed into "a petiole, 

 5-nerved, as well as the lower ordinary leaves lanceolate-linear, rather 

 fleshy erect ; leaves of the flowering stem opposite, broadly linear, 

 amplexicaul, with a closed sheath an inch long, cartilaginous-crenate 

 on the margin, as well as the bracts and inflorescence lepidote-papillose ; 

 flowers whitish, at length in the course of drying turning rather red. 

 Not uncommon, in sandy-earthy thickets about Lopollo and towards 

 Monino ; fl. March 1860. No. 2480. 



3. CRASSITVIA Commers. ex Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 141 

 (1786). Bryophyllum Salisb. (1806) ; Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. PL 

 i. p. 658. 



1. C. floripendia Commers., I.e. 



C. Jloripendula Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1409 (1811). Cotyledon 

 pinnata Lam., I.e. Bryophyllum ealyeinum Salisb. Pai'ad. Lond. 

 n. 3 (1806) ; Britten in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 390. B. pin- 

 natum Kurz in Journ. As. See. Beng. xl. ii. p. 52 (1871). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, hard-fleshy through- 

 out ; stem cylindrical, bright green ; leaves sometimes viviparous ; the 

 barren ones ascending, the flowering ones erect and spotted black- 

 purple ; flowers handsome, IJ to 2 in. long, pendulous ; calyx inflated, 

 greenish with purplish lines at the base ; corolla tubular-hypocrateri- 

 form ; tube globose octagonal inflated and partly inserted within the 

 calyx at the base, then abruptly constricted and soon again produced into 

 an elongate-ventricose quadrangular form ; limb 4-cleft into abruptly 

 acuminate very acute spreading lobes ; stamens 8, a little exceeding the 

 base of the corolla-lobes ; hypogynous glands 4, broadly rectangular ; 

 ovaries 4, almost altogether separate ; styles filiform, straight, equalling 

 the stamens ; stigmas flat-capitate, thinly papillose. Near cataracts in 

 Mata de Cabondo, not uncommon but rarely flowering ; fl. end of Nov. 

 1856. No. 2481. 



4. KALANCHOE Adans. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 659. 



1. K. laciniata DC. PL Grass, n. 100 (1802 ?) ; Britten, in Oliv. 

 FL Trop. Afr. ii. p. 392. 



Cotyledon laciniata L. Sp. PL edit. 1, p. 430 (1753), 



HuiLLA. — Stem erect, 3 to 4 ft. high, with deep-yellow flowers. In 



dry open thickets, rare ; fl. and fr. April and beginning of May 1860. 



No. 2482. 



2, K. brachyloba Welw. ex Britten, I.e., p. 392. 



HuiLLA.— An erect glabrous herb, 2 to 3 ft. high or more ; rhizome 

 tuberous, nearly as large as a man's fist, giving ofE numerous somewhat 

 woody fibres ; stem cylindrical, green ; the lower leaves opposite. 



