ADDENDA, 533 
longer than the leaves; flowers 5-6 to an umbel; spathe-valves 
linear, 1-1} in, long; pedicels short ; perianth red, 12 in. long; tube 
3 lin. diam. low down, dilated gradually to 1 lin, at the throat; 
segments ovate, } in. long; anthers sessile a short distance below the 
throat of the perianth-tube. 
KALAHARI Recion ; Basutoland; slope of Mont aux Sources and Bester’s 
pe Serre 6000-8000 ft., Flanagan, 2047! No specimen in Kew 
er um, Z : 
17a. Asparagus Fleckii (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. 
ili. 43); a squarrose undershrub with divaricate angled branches ; 
upper internodes 3-3 in. long; leaves produced at the base into 
' straight pungent spines; cladodia 6-10 in a cluster, subulate, hard, 
pungent, 4-3 in. long; pedicels 1-6-nate ; flowers hermaphrodite. 
KataHARI ReGion: Reit Fontein, Fleck, 238. No specimen in Kew 
Herbarium, 
6a. Kniphofia fibrosa (Baker) ; old leaves splitting into copious 
fibres ; produced leaves 6-8 to a stem, narrowly linear, 12 ft. long, 
3-1 in. broad low down, with recurved edges and a flat back with a 
slender midrib; peduncle slender, 1~13 ft. long; raceme dense, 
oblong, 1-2 in. long, li in. diam. ; pedicels very short ; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, the lower 3 in. long; flowers all pale yellow, deflexed; 
perianth cylindrical, slender, § in. long; anthers small, oblong, 
blackish, finally exserted ; style overtopping the anthers. 
EasteRn ReGion : Natal ; Mahwaqua Mountain, 6000-7000 ft., Hvans, 649! 
Near K. gracilis, Harv., and K. Evansii, Baker. 
17a. Kniphofia Thodei (Baker) ; old leaves splitting into fibres, 
produced few, stiffly erect, linear, under a foot long, 4 in. broad, 
with a thick midrib and seabrous margin; peduncle 14 ft. long ; 
flowers few in a short, dense raceme, all drooping, orange-scarlet ; 
pedicels very short; bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute, scariose, white, 
1 in. long; perianth cylindrical, 14 in. long, 3 in. diam. at the 
throat ; lobes oblong, obtuse; stamens not exserted from the 
perianth-tube. ; 
Katanani Reeion: Basutoland; grassy slopes of Caledon Range, 7000- 
8000 ft., Thode, 62! No specimen in Kew Herbarium. 
K. natalensis var. condensata, Baker, was at first supposed to be a distinct 
species, and was named provisionally K. Woodii, Baker. name was printed 
in the Garden, 1895, xlviii. 292. 
20a, Kniphofia primulina ker); leaves many, ensiform, 
green, 3-4 ra long, 3-1 in. ae down, very acutely keeled, 
smooth on the margin; peduncle stout, stiffly erect, as long as the 
leaves; raceme dense, oblong, 3-4 in. long; pedicels very short, 
deflexed ; bracts small, ovate; flowers all pale yellow; perianth 
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