TAB. 6116. 
KNIPHOFIA Roopert. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Littacea.—Tribe ALOoINEx. 
Genus Knipnoria, Mench. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 148). | 
Kyipnor1a Rooperi ; acaulis, foliis elongato-ensiformibus 13 poll. latis alte 
carinatis tenuiter cartilagineo-serrulatis, scapo valido, bracteis caulinis 
paucis brevibus e basi lata semiamplexicauli subulatis, racemo ovoideo- 
oblongo, perianthii recti 14 pollicaris lobis brevibus obtusis, bracteolis 
latis, filamentis demum exsertis. 
Kyipnorta Rooperi, Moore in Gard. Comp., vol. i. p. 113 (Tritoma) ; Lemaire 
Jard. Fleur., t. 362 ; Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 363. 
This is very nearly allied to the well known X. aloides, 
(K. Uvaria, Tab. 4816, Zritoma Uvaria, Tab. 758), and may 
perhaps prove to be a late flowering variety of it; in which 
opinion I am strengthened by Mr. Baker, who has mono- 
graphed the genus in the Linnean Journal. The chief 
character by which this was distinguished, namely, the in- 
cluded stamens, does not hold good, as the plate shows ; 
better ones may be found in the paler, less curved flower, in 
the form of the bracteoles, and in broad rich glaucous leaves. 
Of the fourteen species enumerated by Mr. Baker, seven have 
been figured in this country from cultivated specimens; namely, 
1. K. aloides, mentioned above, which was introduced in 1707, 
according to the Hortus Kewensis, and probably much earlier 
into Europe, as it is mentioned in Stapel’s Theophrastus as 
“ Iris Uvaria promontorii Bone spei;” 2. K. precoz, Baker, 
(Saund. Refug. Bot. t. 168); 3. A. Burchellii, Kunth (Bot. 
Reg. t. 1745); 4. K. pumila (Tab. nost. 764); 5. K. 
sarmentosa (Tab. nost. 744, Jris media); 6. K. caulescens 
(Tab. nost. 5946), and the present plant. All are probably 
hardy, and require protection only during very severe winters ; 
indeed, it is to the latter cause alone that can be attributed 
the logs during half a century of so conspicuous and easily 
grown a plant as K. aoides, which reappeared in cultivation 
AUGUST Ist, 1874. 
