Tab. 7832. 



KNIPHOFIA MULTIFLOEA. 

 Native of Natal. 



Nat. Old. LiLiACB.*;. — Tribe Hemeuocallide^. 

 Genus Kniphofia, Mcench; {Benth. Ss Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 775). 



KNiPHoriA muUiflora ; data, foHis S-C-pedalibus loratis rigidis snpra medium 

 1-1^ poll, latum Bensim in apicem acuminatum angustatis supra pro- 

 funde canaliculatis l^te viridibus nervosis subtus alte carinatis subglaucis 

 marginibus serrulatis, pedunculo foliis breviore sui^erne bracteia paucis 

 sparais ingtructo, spica 2-pedali l^-S poll. diam. cylindrica, bracteia 

 minutis ovatis acuminatis scario^is, floribus numerosisaimis aessilibua 

 densissime congestis erectia, perianthio \ poll, longo e baai tumido angiiate 

 infundibulari albo nunc viride tincto, lobis parvis rotundatia costa fiisca, 

 filamentis perianthio subduplo longioribus albis, autheris breviter oblongis 

 aureia. 



K. mnltiflora, Wood & Evans in Journ. Bot. vol. xxxv. (1897) p. 353. H^. 

 Wats, in Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. ii. p. 334. Wood, Natal Plants, vol. iii. 

 Pars I. t. 206. Tlie Garden, vol. Ivi. (1899) p. 348, cum ic. col. 



No South African genus of plants has supplied within 

 late years so rich a harvest of novelties of horticultural 

 interest? as Kniphofia. Dr. Harvey, in the second edition 

 of the " Genera of Cape Plants," pubhshed in 1868, gives 

 only seven or eight as the number of species. In the 

 "Genera Plantarum" (1883), the number given for all 

 Africa, including Madagascar, is sixteen. Mr. Baker, in 

 the "Flora Capensis" (1896), describes thirty-two, to 

 which have nx)w to be added E. rufa, Leicbtl., tab. 7706, 

 and the species here figured ; making thirty-four in all, of 

 which sixteen have been figured in this Magazine. 



K. multijlova is one of the very few known species with 

 erect flowers. Its nearest affinity is with K. modr.sfa, 

 Baker (tab. 7293), which differs in its much narrower 

 leaves, loose spike, larger drooping flowers, and much 

 shorter filaments. The only other known species wiLli 

 truly erect flowers is K.pallidifiora, Baker, of Madagascar. 



A', midtiflora was discovered by Mr. J. M. W. March, 

 growing in swamps on the summit of the Drakensburg 

 range, in Natal, between Van Reenan and Nelson's Kop, 

 at an elevation of five thousand to six thousand feet 



Mat Ibt, 1902. 



