PLATE 359. 
Kleinia fulgens, Hook (Bot. Mag. t. 5590). 
Natiiral Ordei-, Compositae. 
A fleshy plant witli the aspect of a Kalanchoe and liearing \arge orange-red 
flower heads. Steins many from a creeping rootstock, erect, terete, glancous, 12 
to 18 inches higli, branched. I>eaves crowded at base of stem, alternate, sessile, 
oblanceolate, either quite entire or distinctly and coarsely serrete in npper 
third, entire below, veins innnersed ; channelled on npper surface in lower 
portion glaucous ; lower ones up to 4 inches long by | to 1^- wide, smaller 
upwards, upper leaves linear-()l)]( )ng, usually entire, lowest sometimes 
toothed. Flower heads solitary at the end of the branches and branch- 
lets. Heads, discoid, homogamons, . all the florets tubular, 5-toothed. In- 
vohicre of 8 to 10 scales Avhich are uneqnal in breadth and concrete 
for nearly the whole of their lengtli, the free x^ortion triangular and acute. 
Receptacle flat, pitted. Paj)pus liristle shaped, in several rows, minutely barbed. 
Corolla tubular, 5-tootlied, the teeth spreading. Anthers sagittate. Style-arms, 
revolute, tipped with a short cone. Achenes (unripe) cylindrical, quite glabrous. 
Habitat: Natal: Inauda, 1,800 ft.. May, Wood, No. 556. Umlazi location, 
June, Woorl. 
Drawn and described from a jDlant growing in the Botanic (lardens, Din'ban, 
Avhich was in flower in May and June. 
A very oriiamental plant well worth a place in the garden. It bears its 
flowers profusely at the commencement of winter and remains in flower for some 
Aveeks, and even when out of flower it is by no means unsightly. It is found in 
the midlands of Natal, usually at the edge, or at the foot of stony precipices, but 
is rather rare. 
It was hgured in the Botanical j\lagaziue (t. 5590) under the name here given, 
since that time I understand that it has been removed to Senecio, but I have no 
record of its having been pidJished under that name. 
Fig. 1 , longitudinal section of involucre ; 2, floret ; 3, tliree stamens ; 4, 
style and stigma ; all enlarged. 
