Tas. 7293. 
KNIPHOFIA wmopzsta, 
Native of Natal and Griqua-land. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacem. Tribe HemErocaLter. 
Genus Kniruoria, Moench. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 775). 
Knirnorta modesta; fibris radicalibus gracilibus firmis cylindricis, foliis 
panucis linearibus erectis 2-3-pedalibus pallide viridibus facie profunde 
canaliculatis marginibus levibus leviter revolutis, pedunculo gracili 
foliis breviori, racemo elongato cylindrico subdenso multifloro, floribus 
superioribus ascendentibus inferioribus deflexis, pedicellis brevissimis, 
bracteis scariosis superioribus ovatis inferioribus lanceolatis, perianthio 
infundibulari parvo albo supra ovarium constricto, lobis orbicularibus, 
genitalibus demum conspicue exsertis. : 
x, moe Baker in Journ. Bot. 1889, p. 43; Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. ii. 
p- 588. 
This very distinct new species of Kniphofia was first 
discovered in 1884 by Mr. William Tyson on the mountains 
of Griqua-land East, at an elevation of six thousand feet 
above sea-level. Soon afterwards it was found in Natal 
by Mr. J. Medley Wood, A.L.S., Curator of the Botanic 
Garden at Durban, and sent alive to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew. It has flowered there in the autumn in a cool con- 
Servatory and also in a sheltered border out of doors. 
With its narrow leaves and small white flowers nothing 
well can look more different in general aspect from K. 
aloides and the older cultivated kinds. Its nearest ally is 
K, pallidiflora, Baker, a native of the mountains of Mada- 
gascar, which has not yet appeared in the Boranivat 
Macazine. It may prove to be the same species as K. 
pauciflora, Kunth, a plant gathered by Drége in Northern 
Kaffraria, of which I have not been able to see authenti- 
cated specimens, but there are several small points in the 
description which do not agree. Our drawing was made 
from a plant that flowered at Kew in October, 1892. 
Descr. Root fibres slender, firm, cylindrical. Leaves 
few in a cluster, linear, pale green, two or three feet long 
May Isr, 1893, 
