Tas. 6553. 
KNIPHOFIA Uvieu var. Maxima. 
Native of the Orange Free State. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacrm.—Tribe HEMEROCALLIDER. 
Genus Knrpnorta, Moench. ; (Baker in Journ, Linn, Soe. vol. xi. p. 360.) 
Kyipnorta Uvaria var. maxima 3 dense cespitosa, foliis linearibus e basi 14 poll. 
lato ad apicem acuminatum sensim attenuatis glauco tinctis acute carinatis 
margine vix serrulatis, seapo valido 4~6-pedali, racemis subspicatis oblongo- 
cylindricis densis, floribus deflexis, pedicellis brevissimis, bracteis lanceolatis 
pedicellis multo longioribus, perianthio eylindrico 15-18 lin. longo segmentis 
lanceolato-deltoideis, genitalibus longe exsertis, 
This is the plant now widely spread in gardens under 
the name of Kniphofia or Tritoma maxima or grandis. 
Though for garden purposes it has an individuality of its 
own, I cannot find any characters to separate it specifically 
from the well-known Red-hot Poker plant, Kniphofia Uvaria 
(Bot. Mag. Tab. 4816), from which it differs by its more 
robust habit, longer and broader leaves, stouter scape and 
rather longer flowers, with more decidedly exserted stamens 
and style. Our drawing was made from plants which 
flowered in the herbaceous ground at Kew in October, 187 9, 
which we received from Max Leichtlin, Esq. It is a native 
of the Orange Free State, whence we possess dried wild 
Specimens gathered by Mr. Thos. Cooper in 1862. We have 
a dried garden specimen trom Mr. Cooper, in which the 
flowering scape, including the raceme, was nearly seven 
feet long. 8% 
Descr. Densely tufted. Leaves linear, four or five feet 
long, tapering gradually from a base an inch and a half 
broad to a long acuminate point, glaucous, acutely keeled, 
not serrulate on the edge. Scape four or five feet long, 
as thick as a man’s thumb, obtusely angled by ridges 
decurrent from the bracts. Racemes dense, subspicate, 
APRIL Ist, 1881, 
