514 Litiacce—Funckia. 
raceme 8- to 12-flowered. Perianth 2 inches long, white with 
a pale lilac tinge, in shape like that of the last species. 
4. F. grandiflora.—Petiole a foot long, edges incurved 
until they meet; lamina 8 to 9 inches long by 4 to 5 broad, 
ovate with a slightly cordate base, 15- to 17-nerved. Scape 
about 2 feet high, sometimes bearing a well-developed leaf 
below the 12- to 15-flowered raceme. Perianth pure white, 
nearly 4 inches long, dilated gradually from a tube a quarter of 
an inch thick. 
5. F. subcorditu.—Petiole 4 to 6 inches long, edges incurved 
and overlapping; lamina 4 to 5 inches long by 3 inches broad, 
ovate with a slightly cordate base, 13-nerved. Scape 1 to 13 
foot high, sometimes bearing a leaf; raceme 10- to 15-flowered. 
Periaith always pure white, about 4 inches long, gradually 
dilated from a tube a quarter of an inch in thickness. 
9, AGAPANTHUS. 
Herbs with tuberous roots and numerous radical linear 
somewhat fleshy leaves. Perianth funnel-shaped, regular, 
deeply 6-parted; tube short; segments l-nerved. Stamens 
inserted in the throat, declinate, with slender filaments and 
versatile anthers. Flower-scape tall, naked, bearing a many- 
flowered umbel supported by an involucre of two bracts. The 
name is a compound of two Greek words: a@ya7n, love, and 
avOos, a flower. The species are all natives of the Cape of 
Good Hope, and require covering in Winter. Three have been 
described, viz.: .1. wmbelletis, African Lily, the common one, 
having dark blue or occasionally white flowers; A. précor, 
with light blue flowers, appearing rather earlier; and A. mor, 
a smaller form with light blue flowers. Possibly these are 
merely varieties of one specics. There is also a variegated 
variety in cultivation. 
10. KNIPHOFTA (Tritima). 
A small genus of tufted herbs with numerous grass-like 
flaccid leaves and tall naked scapes surmounted by an oblong 
or ovoid dense cluster of brilliantly coloured clavate or cylin- 
drical tubular slightly curved flowers with a very short scarcely 
spreading limb. Stamens hypogynous, usually exserted. Cap- 
sule few-sceded. A commemorative name. About half-a-dozen 
species are known, natives of South Africa. 
1. K. alotdes, syn. K. uvivia, Tritoma uvaria.—This stri- 
