not very many years ago. K, Rooperi is a native of British 
Kaffraria, whence it was sent to England by Capt. Rooper, 
whose name it bears. The specimen here figured flowered 
with Mr. Wilson Saunders in November of last year. 
Descr. Two feet high. Stfemnone. Leaves eighteen inches 
long by one and three-quarters broad, ensiform, gradually 
acuminate, deeply keeled, at the back dark green, not glaucous, 
margin serrulate. Scape very stout, a foot long; bracts few, 
short, membranous, subulate from a broad semiamplexicaul 
base. phe six to eight inches long, ovoid-oblong. Flowers 
densely crowded, about one and a half inches long, orange-red, 
becoming yellow with age; bracteoles broadly lanceolate, 
acute. Stamens at length exserted.—/. D. H. 
