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Kleinia. — One of the finest is K. Grantii, introduced by Miss Edith 

 Cole to the Cambridge Botanic Garden, and figured in the "Bot. Mag.," 

 t. 7691. It has flat glaucous leaves, and heads of scarlet flowers. 

 K. pendula — quite a different species, with leafless curving succulent 

 stems, but yet with ornamental scarlet flower-heads — was also figured 

 from the Cambridge Botanic Garden from plants sent by Mrs. Lort- 

 Phillips and Miss Edith Cole (" Bot. Mag.," t. 7689). 



Euernia. — A very interesting and pretty plant is E. concinna, with 

 yellowish-white campanulate flowers, introduced to Cambridge by Mrs. 

 Lort- Phillips, and figured in the "Bot. Mag.," t. 7905. Almost equally 

 pretty is H. somalica, also introduced to Cambridge by Mrs. Lort-Phillips, 

 and figured in the " Bot. Mag.," t. 7730. It has more openly campanulate 

 flowers of ochraceous hue, studded with purple papillae. 



Echidnopsis. — The old well-known species is E. cereiformis, mentioned 

 under Abyssinia. E. somaliensis was introduced to the Botanic Garden, 

 Cambridge, by Mrs. Lort-Phillips, and is figured in the " Bot. Mag.," t. 7929. 

 The two kinds are very similar, but this has brown-purple flowers spotted 

 with yellow. 



Edithcolea grandis. — A new genus, and this the one species. It was 

 found by Miss Edith Cole and Mrs. Lort-Phillips in the Henweina Valley, 

 at a height of 3,000 feet. Unfortunately it was not introduced alive, and 

 travellers to Somaliland should make every effort to get it. In habit the 

 plant is similar to Stapelia gigantea. It grows a foot high, and the stems 

 are an inch or more in diameter. The genus is allied to Caralluma, and 

 has a very large corolla with a small tube. The colour of the flower is 

 not given. The plant is described by Mr. N. E. Brown in the "Kew 

 Bulletin," 1895, p. 220. 



Euphorbia. — The new E. Phillipsiae is a Cambridge introduction 

 sent by the lady whose name it bears. It has numerous angles and many 

 spines, is of small growth, and is a most interesting plant — one of the 

 rarest of the genus. 



Abyssinia. 



Kalanchoe. — One of the most interesting species is K. marmorata 

 ("Bot. Mag.," t. 7333). Its leaves, according to the amount of sun, are 

 either pale glaucous green or spotted with very dark purple-black, or 

 they are almost entirely black. The flowers are large and white. 



Echidnopsis. — The common species is E. cereiformis (fig. 87), which has 

 cylindrical stems nearly a foot high — a good mimic of those of Euphorbia 

 mamillaris—B,nd small yellow flowers produced near their summits. It is 

 figured in the "Bot. Mag.," t. 5930. It is native of Eritrea and Somali- 

 land, as well as Abyssinia. 



Aloe. — Several species may be included here. The principal are 

 A. abyssinica, A. Camperi, A. elegans, A. macrocarpa, and A. Schimperi, 

 all of merit for collections. 



North Africa. 



Sedum. — Nine species are recorded from Morocco alone, but it does 

 not appear that any from this region are of garden importance. 



