PLATE 320. 
KALANCHOE LONGIFLORA, 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 ? 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 2¢ inches wide, 
upper ones 1 to 14 by }to inch. 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 4 to 2 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: Natau: Between Greytown and Weenen, 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, suitalle 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. 
