450 CXL. LILIACE® (BAKER). [Dracena. 
5-6 in a cluster, sessile. Perianth nearly 1 in. long; tube cylindrical, 
as long as the lobes. 
Lower Guinea. Southern French Congo; borders of the lagoon of Mayumba, 
Lecomte, E 20! Growing with D. arborea. 
No specimen at Kew. 
4. KNIPHOFIA, Moench ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 775. 
Perianth-tube cylindrical or narrowly funnel-shaped; lobes short, 
obtuse. Stamens 6, hypogynous, often exserted; filaments filiform ; 
anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled; ovules many in a 
cell ; style long, filiform ; stigma minute, capitate. Capsule globose or 
ovoid, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds angled ; testa black ; embryo oblong, 
shorter than the albumen.—Rootstock short, vertical, sending out 
many cylindrical root-fibres. Leaves all radical, long, dry, linear or 
ensiform, usually acutely keeled. Flowers racemose, bright yellow or 
red ; pedicels short, articulated at the apex ; bracts persistent, scariose. 
Species 30—40, the others in South Africa and Madagascar. 
Leaves linear. Raceme dense. 
Stamens not exserted. 
Perianth 8-3 in. long . 1. K. abyssinica. 
Perianth about 1 in. long. 
Style not exserted . 2. K. Thomsoni. 
Style slightly exserted 3. K. Grantit. 
Style much exserted 4. K. longistyla. 
Perianth 14—14 in. long 5. K. isoétifolia. 
Stamens exserted. 
Stamens 1} times the length of the perianth 6. K. Leichtlini. 
Stamens twice the length of the perianth 7. K. comosa. 
Leaves linear. Racemes lax. 
Leaves few 8. K. Schimpert. 
Leaves numerous : 9. K. insignis. 
Leaves ensiform. Racemes dense. 
Stamens not exserted. 
Perianth 1 in. long . i ; ; ; . 10. K. zombensis. 
Perianth 14—14 in. long : . e . 11. K. Kirkii. 
Stamens much exserted. 
Leaves under lin. broad ` $ g . 12. K. densiflora. 
Leaves 1-1} in. broad . S ` e . 13. K. foliosa. 
1. K. abyssinica, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. 294. Leaves few, 
linear, about 1 ft. long, } in. broad low down, smooth on the margin, 
not acutely keeled. Peduncle slender, as long as the leaves. Raceme 
dense, oblong, 1-2 in. long; pedicels very short, all deflexed ; bracts 
lanceolate, the lower } in. long. Perianth cylindrical, red, 2-2 in. long, 
yz in. diam., not constricted above the ovary; lobes very small. 
Stamens finally just exserted.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 362. 
Veltheimia abyssinica, Red. Lil. t. 186. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Shoa ; Ankober, Roth, 62! 
This is totally different from the South African K. pumila, with which Kunth 
unites it, 
