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denticulati. Coronse interioris squamae in cornua erecta, arcuata 

 sed non clavata productse et postice cornutse. 



Stems 4-angled, few-branched, decussate ; the sides flat, the ridges 

 with a few distant minute scales, dull green, glabrous, 12 to 14 mm. 

 in diam. 



Flowers 1 to 2 with fairly long pedicels (20 mm.) ; the sepals 

 linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm. long ; corolla rotate, deeply lobed ; the 

 lobes narrow-lanceolate, not ciliate, the margins rolled back, the 

 surface thickly covered with irregular, transverse ridges, dull yellow. 

 Length of lobes 15 mm., width at their base 7 mm. The tube of the 

 corolla is shallow, open, one-third the length of the lobes, whitish, 

 covered on its inner face with purple, knobby hairs. The outer 

 corona consists of 5 erect, concave, pointed, slightly denticulate, 

 distant lobes, which are yellowish at their base and purplish at 

 the top. I 



The lobes of the inner corona alternate with the outer ones ; each 

 one is produced into a long, pointed horn which ultimately curves 

 outwards, the horns thus forming a central bundle which hides the 

 stigma ; each lobe bears also a pointed horn- shaped process at its 

 back, which is bent outwards, thus standing between the lobes of the 

 outer corona. The horns and their appendages are white with a 

 tinge of purple. Lobes of outer corona 3 mm. long and about 1 mm. 

 in diam. ; central horns of inner corona 10 mm., their outer processes 

 4-5 mm. 



This species might be placed into the section Stapletonia, Dene., 

 although it differs from the other species of this group considerably. 



Found in the Laingsburg district, flowering in my garden at Cape- 

 town in March, 1906, and March, 1907. Marloth No. 4227. 



LILIACEiE. 



Kniphofia tabulaeis, n. spec. 



Folia linearia, triquetra, inferne non dilatata, glabra, scapo multo 

 longiora, pendula. Inflorescentia laxa ; flores pedicellati, penduli, 

 rubri, staminibus baud exsertis. 



The leaves are triquetrous with depressed sides, of equal width 

 throughout their whole length of 2 metres or more ; smooth, bright 

 green, 6-8 mm. wide, very soft and slender, hanging in bunches 

 from the cliffs. Peduncle erect, 50-80 cm. long, the raceme very 

 lax, 7-10 cm. long. Bracts lanceolate-linear, very acuminate, 

 brown, nearly 10 mm. long. The perianth-tube is slightly widening 

 upwards, 25 mm. long, the segments are short, narrow-oblong, 

 obtuse, often with a black tip. 



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