Tab. 7623. 



KNIPHOFIA LONGICOLLIS. 



Native of Natal. 



Nat. Ord. Liliaceje.— Tribe Hemerocalle^. 

 Genus Kniphofia, Moench, {Benth. & SooTc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 775.) 



Kxiphofia longicollis ; foliis multis linearibus acuminatis firmulis viridibus 

 margine scabris dorso acute carinatis, pedunculo stricto erecto foliis 

 breviore, racemo densissimo oblongo, pedicellis brevissimis cernuis, 

 bracteia ovatis scariosis pedicellis longioribus, periantbio luteo elongato 

 subcylindrico infra medium leviter constricto, lobis parvis ovatis, 

 staminibus styloque demum distincto exsertis. 



K. longicollis, Hort. Leichtlin, ex Baker in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. xiii. p. 682, 

 et in Fl. Cap. vol. vi. p. 284 



This new KnijjJiofia is nearly allied to the old well- 

 known K. aloides, Moench (K. Uvaria, Hook, in Bot. Mag. 

 tab. 4816), but is dwarfer in habit, with firmer, bright 

 green leaves, and bright yellow flowers, without any tinge 

 of red. It was imported from Natal by Herrn Max 

 Leichtlin, and first flowered at Baden Baden in the summer 

 of 1893. Our drawing was made from a plant flowered by 

 W. E. Gumbleton, Esq., at Queenstown, County Cork, in 

 February, 1897. We have not yet received any dried 

 specimen, and do not know at what height above sea-level 

 it grows in its native country. If it prove to be as hardy 

 as K. aloides, it will be a valuable acquisition to our 

 gardens. 



Descr. — Leaves many in a tuft, linear, bright green, two 

 or three feet long, tapering gradually to a long point, firm 

 in texture, scabrous on the margin, acutely keeled on the 

 back. Peduncle stiffly erect, shorter than the leaves. 



ceme oblong, very dense, half a foot long ; pedicels very 



short, cernuous, all the flowers bright, light yellow, tinged 



occasionally with orange, without any tinge of red ; bracts 



ovate, scariose, longer thin the pedicels. Perianth sub- 



Novembek 1st, 3898. 



