Liliacecz Kniphofia. 5 1 5 



kingly beautiful plant is quite hardy in the South of England, 

 and admirably adapted for effective display in isolated clumps 

 on lawns or amongst shrubs. It is certainly one of the most 

 conspicuous ornaments of our gardens in Autumn. Leaves dark 

 glossy green, minutely toothed or scabrid on the edges and 

 midrib. The scapes are from 3 to 5 feet high, and the flowers 

 a bright scarlet or orange-scarlet tipped with yellow. 



K. Burchellii differs in its spotted flower-scape and scarlet 

 and yellow flowers tipped with green. K. media and K. 

 pumila are quite similar, though smaller. None of the other 

 species are at all common in gardens. 



11. PH0RMIUM. 



A genus of plants confined to New Zealand and Norfolk 

 Island. Though not quite hardy in any part of England, we 

 give it a place here because it is extensively used and well 

 adapted as a large pot-plant for decorating terraces, flights of 

 steps, or planting out in clumps. Only two, or at the most 

 three species are known, differing chiefly in size and colour of 

 the flowers. They are tall rigid herbs with fleshy fibrous roots. 

 Leaves radical, linear-ensiform, distichous, coriaceous, and very 

 tough. Flower-scapes variable in height from 5 to 15 feet, 

 branched and bracteate. Flowers large, dull red or yellow ; 

 perianth tubular, curved, the inner segments with spreading 

 tips. The name is from the Greek (^oppos, a basket, in 

 allusion to the application of the leaves. The best known 

 species is P. tenax. New Zealand Flax, a plant with very 

 thick coriaceous narrow leaves from 3 to 6 feet long, dark green 

 above, paler below, always split at the tip. Flowers numerous, 

 in panicles, yellow or red. P. Cookianum is distinguished 

 from the foregoing by its smaller stature, greenish-yellow 

 flowers, and especially by its more acuminate leaves, which are 

 rarely split at the apex. 



12. YTJCCA. 



A genus of noble-looking plants, so distinct in appearance as 

 to form in themselves a special feature in landscape gardening. 

 They are mostly natives of the Southern States of North 

 America and Mexico, and many of them are quite hardy in our 

 gardens, where they are remarkable for their crowns of rigid 

 flat ensiform leaves and large terminal panicles of white 

 flowers. The stem is either short or almost obsolete, or, as in 



L L 2 



