Tas, 6167. 
KNIPHOFIA Macowan1. 
Native of South Africa, 
Nat. Ord. LiviAces.—Tribe ALOINE. 
Genus Knirnorta, Mench. ; (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc., vol. xi. p. 360). 
Knienoria . Macowani ; foliis 1—11-pedalibus rigidissimis anguste elon- 
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gato-subulatis carinatis basi } poll. latis sulcatis, marginibus crenato- 
denticulatis, scapo foliis equilongo, racemo 3—4-pollicari, bracteis 
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus deflexis brevissime pedicellatis, 
perianthio pollicari subcylindraceo basi hemispherico supra ovarium 
non constricto e flavo aurantiaco-coccineo, segmentis rotundatis patenti- 
bus, genitalibus inclusis. 
K. Macowani, Baker in Trim. Jour. Bot., 1874, p. 8. 
We have several dried specimens of this pretty little 
Kniphofia, collected by its discoverer, whose name it bears, 
in grassy places of the Boschberg mountains in Somerset 
district, where it inhabits elevations of 4000 to 5000 feet. 
It was described from these by Mr. Baker, and flowered 
shortly afterwards in the Royal Gardens from roots sent by 
Professor Macowan. It is remarkably distinct from any of 
the fourteen species described by Mr. Baker in the eleventh 
volume of the “Linnzan Journal,” and which are alluded to 
under K. Rooperi (Tab. nost. 6116), and forms one of six ad- 
ditional species subsequently described by Mr. Baker in Dr. 
Trimen’s “ Journal of Botany,” quoted above. 
It is best treated as a greenhouse plant, though probably 
as hardy as the other species of the genus. 
Descr. Root of stout fibres. Sfem as thick as the thumb 
at the base, clothed with the rigid fibrous nerves of the old 
leaves. eaves one to one and a half feet long, suberect, 
one-third of an inch broad at the base, narrow subulate, 
strongly keeled, triangular at the back, deeply grooved, 
margins strongly toothed, tips flattish. Scape as long as the 
leaves or longer, slender, cylindric, with one subulate bract 
or none. aceme three to five inches long, cylindric-ovoid. 
Bracts one-quarter of an inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
JUNE Ist, 1875, 
