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which is still in cultivation. I have received a plant that seems 

 identical from Somaliland. They have thick fleshy leaves. 



Euphorbia. — E. grandicomis, the finest of all the species perhaps, is 

 referred to this region. It is essentially tropical and suffers from cold in 

 winter where other species are happy. Synadenium Grantii (" Bot. Mag.," 

 t. 5633) is a strong-growing plant with bright green fleshy leaves 3 to 4 

 inches long, not beautiful in flower, native of Central Africa. 



Aloe. — A. agavaefolia, A. Buchananii, and A. macrosiphon may be 

 mentioned. 



East Tropical Africa. 



Aloe Hildebrandtii (" Bot. Mag. " t. 6981), A. Kirkii ("Bot. Mag.," 

 t. 7386), and A. tenuifolia are mentioned in the " Kew Hand List.' 



West Tropical Africa. 

 A. Barteri is included in the "Kew Hand List." 



Nyassaland. 



Kalanchoe. — One of the very finest of the species, viz. K. Dyeri (" Bot. 

 Mag.," t. 7987), is native of this country. It is one of a group found 

 in tropical Africa, and characterised by long-tubed white flowers. This 

 plant grows from 2 to 2^ feet high, it has fine leaves 1\ inches long, and 

 produces an inflorescence from 6 to 9 inches across. It was introduced to 

 Kew, flowered first in 1904, and it is said that plants will soon be offered 

 by the trade. 



K. Kirkii, between which and the 'Indian K. grandiflora I have 

 obtained a hybrid, is native of this region. 



Zanzibar. 



Huernia. — For one species, H. aspera (" Bot. Mag.," t. 7000), it is 

 worth while to mention this island, though it may be native of the opposite 

 coast. It is interesting as a member of a genus previously known only in 

 South Africa. The stems are straggling, purplish-brown, with divaricate, 

 ascending, green, cylindrical or fusiform branches bearing flowers nearly 

 one inch in diameter of a very dark brown-purple colour. 



Aloe. — A. brachystachys ("Bot. Mag.," t. 7399), A. concinna, and 

 A. pcnduliflora, all in the last "Kew Hand List," are natives of 

 Zanzibar. 



Somaliland. 



Owing to the visits of Mr. and Mrs. Lort-Phillips and Miss Edith Cole, 

 some very fine and interesting plants have been introduced. 



Kalanchoe. — One of the finest of all the species is K. jlammea (" Bot. 

 Mag.," t. 7595), and none can compare with it in the brilliant scarlet 

 colour of the flowers. A hybrid raised between it and K. Bentii of 

 South Arabia is the wonderful K. kewensis, remarkable in foliage and 

 beautiful with masses of pink flowers. 



K. somaliensis, collected and introduced by Sir Edmund Loder, is 

 allied to K. Dyeri, and is second only to it among those with white flowers. 



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