326 xlvit. ceassulace*. [Crasmla- 



Var. vaginata Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrik. parsC. p. 189 (1895). 

 C. vaginata Eckl. & Zeyh. 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-erenate 

 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. CRASSUVIA Commers. ex Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 141 

 (1786). Bryophyllvm Salisb. (1806) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 i. p. 658. 



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



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

 pinnata Lam., I.e. Bryophyllum calycinum Salisb. Parad. Lond. 

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

 natwm Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 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 biack- 

 purple ; flowers handsome, 1£ to 2 in. long, pendulous ; calyx inflated, 

 greenish with purplish lines at the base ; corolla tubuiar-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 Oabondo, not uncommon but rarely flowering ; fl. end of Nov. 

 1856. No. 2481. 



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



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

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 392. 



Cotyledon laciniata L. Sp. PI. 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 off numerous somewhat 

 woody fibres ; Btem cylindrical, green ; the lower leaves opposite, 



