823 xlvii. cbassulacEjE. [Kalanchoe 



de Libongo and the petroleum mine, not uncommon ; fl. and fr. end 

 of Sept. 1858. No. 2491. 



5. K. aegyptiaca DC. PL Grass, n. 64 (1801 ?). 



Cotyledon cegyptiaca Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 142 (1786). 0. 

 integra Medik. in Act. Ac. Theod.-Palat. iii. p. 200, t. 9 (1775). 

 G. deficient Forsk. Fl. ^Egypt.-Arab. p. 89 (1775). G. nudicaulis 

 Murr. Syst. Veg. (edit. 14) p. 429 (1784). K. crenata Haw. Syn. 

 PI. Succ. p. 109 (1812) pro parte ; Britten, I.e., p. 394. 



Pungo Andongo. — Stem cylindrical, 3 ft. high or more, glabrous up 

 to the inflorescence ; radical leaves numerous, thick, glabrous ; stem- 

 leaves obovate-spathulate, narrowed into a rather long petiole, glabrous ; 

 inflorescence hispidulous ; flowers of a pale-sulphur colour ; sepals 

 lanceolate, acute, viscid. Sporadic, in rocky bushy places within the 

 fortified lines, not far from the road leading to Cambamba ; fl. and fr. 

 April 1857. No. 2488. 



6. K. coccinea Welw. ex Britten, I.e., p. 395. 



Golungo Alto. — An erect nearly glabrous annual (?) herb, 2 to 4 ft. 

 high or more ; stem slender, herbaceous-green, fleshy, glabrous below, 

 somewhat shaggy above ; leaves herbaceous-green, fleshy, less thick 

 "than in most of the other species of the genus, the lower leaves glabrous, 

 the upper ones as well as the inflorescence somewhat shaggy ; flowers 

 brilliantly scarlet or orange-red or even sometimes white at the time 

 of flowering, at length when fruiting crowded into long corymbose 

 racemes ; corolla-tube somewhat shaggy ; hypogynous scales linear, 

 bifid at the apex. In the drier thickets and borders of woods, from 

 Oalolo towards Sange and between Chixe (Xixe) and Muria, abundant, 

 fl. and fr. Sept. 1854 ; on thin-bushy hills on the left bank of the river 

 Coango, fl. and young fr. July 1856 ; in wooded and in bushy places 

 between Muria and Calolo, sparingly, fl. beginning of Sept. 1857. 

 No. 2487. 



Bengo (Zenza) and Golungo Alto. — A very succulent perennial 

 herb ; stem straight, 2 to 3£ ft. high ; leaves greenish-glaucous, green 

 when fully developed, fleshy ; flowers corymbose, of a pleasant orange- 

 scarlet colour. In dry places among trees of Euphorbia, etc., near 

 Cacuaco, fr. Sept. 1854 ; near Muria, fr. Dec. 1854. Coll. Carp. 542. 



7. K. velutina Welw. ex Britten, I.e., p. 396. 



Pungo Andongo. — A very fleshy, velvety-tomentellous undershrub ; 

 root thick, fleshy, creeping, perennial ; flowers softly pubescent, yellow ; 

 calyx short, deeply partite, with deltoid acute segments ; lobes of the 

 corolla-limb very acute, but little spreading at the time of flowering ; 

 corolla-tube scarcely or but little inflated. Rather rare, in rocky 

 sparingly-shrubby situations near Mutollo towards Calumba ; fl. and 

 fr. end of March 1857. No. 2490. 



8. K. glandulosa Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 904 ; 

 A. Kich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 312 (1847) ; Britten, I.e., p. 396 : Eneler, 

 Hochgebirgsfl. p. 233 (1892). 



"Var. benguelensis Engl., I.e. 



Huilla. — A perennial herb ; root tuberous ; stem erect, l£ to 2 ft. 

 high, tetragonal, densely clothed with glandular hairs ; radical and 

 lowest leaves very large, a foot long, broadly elliptic-ovate, very thick, 

 fleshy, very brittle, opaque and very thinly papillose above, smooth 

 paler shining and keeled beneath, coarsely dentate on the margin : 



