TAS. Zod, 
KNIPHOFIA  srevirtora. 
Native of Natal and Orange Free State. 
Nat. Ord. Lrtrataa:—Tribe HEMEROCALLIDEA. 
Genus Kniruorta, Mench,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775.) 
KnIpHorFIa breviflora; foliis linearibus longe acuminatis integris sordide 
viridibus dorso acute carinatis, pedunculo stricto erecto foliis xquilongo, 
racemo oblongo-cylindrico supra basin denso, pedicellis brevibus, in- 
ferioribus cernuis, bracteis lanceolatis, perianthio parvo subcylindrico 
pallide luteo lobis ovatis, staminibus demum leviter exsertis, stylo 
staminibus longiore, fructu parvo globoso. 
Ke pata Harv.; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xi. 361; Fl. Cap. vol. vi. 
Pp: . 
There are now thirty-five species of this genus known 
at the Cape, and thirteen species in Tropical Africa, only 
one of which is common to both areas. The present is 
one of the smallest known species, being nearly allied to 
“K. modesta, Baker (Bot. Mag. tab. 7293), but with the 
flowers bright yellow, instead of white. It was first 
gathered in 1862 by Mr. Thomas Cooper in the Orange 
Free State, and was named in manuscript by Professor 
Harvey shortly before his death. It was again collected in 
Natal in 1895 by Mr. J. Medley Wood, and by him intro- 
duced into cultivation through Mr. Max Leichtlin of 
Baden Baden. Our drawing was made from a plant that 
flowered at Kew in October, 1896. As it was found in 
Natal at an elevation of between five thousand and six 
thousand feet above sea-level, no doubt it will be perfectly 
hardy. The Natal plant is rather more robust, and the 
flowers are a little larger than in that from the Orange 
Free State, but I think they can only be regarded as 
forms of a single species. 
Descr.—Leaves narrowly linear, one foot and a half or 
two feet long, tapering gradually to a long point, dull 
green, acutely keeled on the back, entire on the margin. 
Peduncle stiffly erect, as long as the leaves. Raceme 
December Ist, 1897. 
