430 THREE NOTEWORTHY SPECIES OF PLANTS. 



outwards. Leaves up to 1.5 m. long, 7 cm. broad low down, 

 gradually- narrowing upwards to a long acuminate tip, glabrous, 

 with the margins densely serrately-toothed. Peduncle shorter 

 than the leaves, 1.3 cm. in diameter with 3-4 bracts on the lower 

 half, and many membranous ovate-lanceolate bracts on the 

 upper half, rnflorescencc dense, about 17 cm. long, and 7 cm. 

 in diameter. Flozvers all pendulous ; the upper reddish ; the 

 lower yellowish. Perianth-tub e in young flowers 2 cm. long, 

 lengthening in older flowers to 3 cm., more or less clavate, dis- 

 tinctly 6-nerved, glabrous; lobes 3-3.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, 

 ovate, obtuse, with smooth or serrated margins. Stamens of two 

 different lengths; in young flcwers near the apex the stamens 

 are included; longer filaments 2.5-5 "i^^- loi^?- cylindrical, 

 glabrous; the shorter filaments 1-3 mm. long, similar to the 

 longer; in older flowers the longer stamens exserted 3.5 cm. 

 long, linear; the shorter included, 2 cm. long, linear. Ovary 

 3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, ovate in outHne, glabrous; style 3 

 cm. long, linear, glabrous ; in younger flowers style only 9 mm. 

 long ; stigma simple. Fruit 9 mm. long, 7 mm. in diameter, sub- 

 globose ; valves black, coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds black, 

 pyramidal in shape, 3-4 angled. 



East Griqualand : Kokstad, Mogg 1843, ^^^d '" National 

 Herb. 1051. Flowered in Garden of Division of Botany, Pre- 

 toria, Oct., 1918. Garden No. 5149. 



Cape Province : Barkly East Div. : Swampy ground, Ben 

 AfcDhui, 8,500-9,600 ft., March, Galpin 6866. 



This handsome Kniphofia was first described by Baker in 

 the Journal of Botany in 1889 from a painting in the North 

 Gallery at Kew, and from a specimen taken to England by Miss 

 North in 1883, and which flowered in the Succulent House in 

 1889. The species also flowered at Kew in June, 1894, and was 

 figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 7412, from the living plants. 

 The plant is reported to occur in a wild state in the neighbour- 

 hood of Grahamstown, and was first found by Mr. W. Dugmore. 

 Mr. Galpin (No. 5149) was the first to rediscover the species 

 in 1904, and Mr. Mogg collected living specimens near Kokstad 

 in 1917, which he sent to the Division of Botany at Pretoria, 

 where they flowered the following year. 



EUPHORBIA MONTE IRA, Hook. fil. Stems branched, 

 succulent, rough, about i . 5 cm. in diameter with slender leafy 

 herbaceous branches arising from near the apices. Branches 

 17-28 cm. long, simple or branched, 1.5-3 mm. in diameter, 

 green, glabrous ; each branch bears at its apex an opposite pair 

 of bracts w^hich surround a peduncled involucre and a shoot. 

 Leagues sessile, alternate, 3.3-4.1 cm. long, rarely as small as 

 1.2 cm. long, .8-1 cm. broad, lanceolate, very shortly acuminate 

 and acute at the apex, slightly narrowed at the base, glabrous, 

 with the mid-rib evident and with entire margins. Bracts 2, 

 opposite, 1.8-3 cm. long, about 2.4 cm. broad at the widest part. 



