Befugium Botanicum.] 
[March, 1871. 
TAB. 244. 
Natural Order Crassulace^. 
Genus Kalanchoe, Adans. 
K. ROTUNDiFOLTA (Haw. Phil. Mag., July 1825, p. 31). Glabra, erecta, 
bipedalis vel ultra, foliis obovato-spathulatis integris vel subcrenatis 
carnosis viridibus obtusis vel subobtusis breviter petiolatis, floribus 
copiose corymbosis, pedunculis et pedicellis strictis gracilibus, 
bracteolis linearibus minutis, sepalis parvis lanceolatis, coroUse tubo 
urceolato collo gracili, segmentis linearibus rubro-aurantiacis tubo 
triple brevioribus. — B. C. Prodr. iii. p. 395 ; Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 
p. 379. 
A native of Cape Colony. 
Stem erect, two feet or more liigli, terete, glabrous. Leaves in 
opposite pairs, the lower two to three inches apart, obovate- 
spathulate, a line thick in the middle of the blade, quite glabrous, 
entire in our specimens, full green above, pale green beneath, 
two and a half to three inches long, ratheif more than half as 
broad, blunt or obtusely pointed, narrowed into a short thick 
channelled petiole. Floicers in dense flat-topped or rather 
rounded corymbs, on long wand-like peduncles, which are brac- 
teated by pairs of much reduced leaves. Ultimate pedicels 
slender, one to three lines long, with minute linear- subulate 
hracteoles. Calyx under a line deep, the lanceolate divisions 
reaching down to the base. Corolla lanceolate, six to seven 
lines long, the ventricose base of the tube equalling its slender 
neck, the divisions linear, patent, orange-red. Carpels reaching 
into the neck of the tube. Hypogynous scales subulate. 
Tab. 244.— 1, a closed flower: 2, an expanded flower; 3, a vertical 
section of a flower ; 4, a stamen ; 5, carpels and hypogynous scales : all 
magnified. — J. G. B. 
Grown in a warm rather moist stove, this species of Kalanchoe 
makes a neat dwarf plant, and produces its red- orange flowers 
freely. Sandy loam and peat, with plenty of drainage, is the soil 
which seems to suit it best. When growing it should be kept 
near the light, and be then freely watered ; but when at rest the 
water must be very sparingly given. It is easily increased by 
seed or by the leaves, which root freely inserted in sand. — 
w, w. s. 
