Tas. 8867. 
KNIPHOFIA Snowpent. 
Uganda, 
Litiaceak. Tribe HEMEROCALLEAR. 
Kwrenorta, Moench ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775; A, Berger 
tn Lingl. Pflanzenreich, Lil.-Asphod.-Aloin. p. 31, 
Kniphofia Snowdeni, C. H. Wright in Kew Bull. 1919, p. 264; species 
: K. longistylae, Baker, proxima, perianthio pubescente differt. 
Herba caespitosa. Folia linearia 3 em. lata, glabra, circiter 15-nervia, integra, 
- marginibus hyalinis. Pedunculus 1-2 m. altus, cylindricus; spica 8 dm. 
longa; bracteae ovatae, longe acuminatae, 5 mm. longae. Perianthium 
8 em. longum, leviter curvatum, supra ovarium constrictum, extra pubes- 
cens, costis validis instructum, rubrum vel luteum; lobi rotundati, obtusi, 
2 mim. longi et lati. Antherae inclusae. Ovarium conicum; stylus 
triquetrus, demum exsertus,—C. H. Wricur. 
The Aniphojia which forms the subject of our plate 
was originally discovered in October, 1916, by Mr. J. D.- 
Snowden of the Department of Agriculture, Uganda, 
growing among short grass and in small scrub on the 
slopes of Mount Elgon at about 8,000 to 10,000 feet 
above sea level. In 1918 seeds collected in the same 
locality were forwarded to Kew by Mr. R. A. Dummer. 
From these, plants were successfully raised, some of which 
flowered in the open in September, 1919, The plant 
collected by Snowden, on which the original description 
of our species was based, was considerably smaller than 
the plants raised from the seed supplied by Dummer, 
but did not differ in other characters. Fortunately while 
these were in flower Mr. Snowden, when visiting Kew 
while on furlough, had an opportunity of seeing them, and 
recognised in them, without hesitation, the species he 
had collected on Mount Elgon. In his original specimen 
the leaves are only a foot long, and the inflorescence is two 
feet high, whereas the plants raised at Kew reach a height 
of five feet, with leaves two feet long. Such dimensions 
Mr. Snowden assures us are often. attained by the wild 
OcToBER—DrcempeEr, 1920. 
