Tas. 6742. 
KNIPHOFIA rortosa. 
Native of Abyssinia. 
Nat. Ord. Linracez.—Tribe HemMEROCALLER. 
Genus Knipnoria, Mench.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 775.) 
Kyrrnorta foliosa ; acaulis, foliis ensiformibus acuminatis bipedalibus viridibus e 
basi ad apicem sensim attenuatis lateribus inflexis margine denticulatis, scapo 
valido stricto 2-3-pedali, racemo denso elongato, pedicellis brevissimis, bracteis 
ovatis pedicello 2-3-plo longioribus, perianthio cylindrico luteo vel rubro 
tincto segmentis brevissimis, genitalibus longe exsertis. 
K. foliosa, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, p. 30; Baker in Trimen Journ. 1874, p. 4. 
K. Quartiniana, A. Rich, Fl. Abyss. vol. ii. p. 324; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, 
vol. xi. p. 362; Gard. Chron. 1876, p. 45; Regel Gartenfl, vol. xxvi. (1877). 
pp. 89, 196, tab. 907, excl. syn. 
The genus Kniphofia, as understood in the Genera Plan- 
tarum, is restricted to the Cape and mountains of Abyssinia, 
with the exception of one species that was found near the 
equator by Speke and Grant, and one that has lately been 
found on the high mountains of Central Madagascar by the 
Rey. R. Baron. Altogether there are six species in Abyssinia, 
none of which are identical with those that occur at the 
Cape. Three of them have been introduced into cultivation 
of late years through seeds sent by Schimper to the Berlin 
Garden, and all three have become fully established in our 
gardens, and have been freely distributed by Leichtlin. 
Two out of the three, K. comosa, tab. 6569, and K. Leichtlinii, 
tab. 6716, have been figured lately in the Boranica Macazine, 
The present plant is one of the most robust of the whole 
genus, and may be recognized at a glance by its broad 
_ leaves and much-exserted stamens. Our drawing was made 
from a plant that flowered with Mr. Elwes at Cirencester 
in December, 1881. There are three other Abyssinian 
species not in cultivation, K. abyssinica, K. isoetifolia, and 
K. Schimperi, all of which have narrow leaves and few- 
flowered racemes. The two plants from Angola which I 
- MARCH Ist, 1884, 
