364 PENNELL: THE SPECIES OF KNEIFFIA 
for intensive cultivation and study, it may be well, from the 
viewpoint of the taxonomist, to present an outline of its com- 
position. 
For this study I have examined specimens in the herbaria of 
the New York Botanical Garden, United States National Museum, 
Missouri Botanical Garden, Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania and Charleston Museum. 
Stem-leaves broadly linear to ovate. Bracts similar 
leaves, linear, longer than the capsules. 
Stigmas linear, conspicuous. Wings of capsule 
pronounced. KNEIFFIA. 
Mature srtens clavate-linear, not stipitate. 
Hypanthium 20-25 . long. Sepals with 
salasie aac ee tips, 2-4 mm. 
long. Petals 20-25 mm. long. Stem, 
leaves and capsules hirsute. 
Hypanthium ro-12 mm. long. Sepals with 
shorter tips, strigose or somewhat agbred 
ing-pubescent. Petals 1 
tem, leaves. and iio ia or 
appressed-pubesce 
Mature capsule-body aa to oblong, more or 
less stipitate. 
i. K. pratensis. 
2. K. sessilis. 
of earlier flowers 12-25 mm. long. 
ee capsule-body decidedly clavate, 
scent with normally incurved 
sande hairs, in Nos. 8 and 9 with 
some interspersed gland-tipped hairs. 
Mature eacinls about as wide as 
long, usually much shorter than 
the stipe. 
Capsule with minute appressed : 
hairs. Leaves broadly linear, 
strigillose to glabrous. Basal 
leaves narrowly oblanceolate. 3. K. subglobosa. 
silky. 4. K. arenicola. 
Mature capsule-body longer than wide, 
longer than, about equaling or 
sometimes shorter than the stipe. 
Basal leaves broadly lanceolate 
to ovate. 
Stipe and capsule-body both pubes- 
cent with glandless hairs, the 

