Lihacee—Knuiphofia. 515 
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. Burchéllit differs in its spotted flower-scape and scarlet 
and yellow flowers tipped with green. K. média and AK. 
pumila are quite similar, though smaller. None of the other 
species are at all common in gardens. 
11. PHORMIUM. 
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 gopyos, a basket, in 
allusion to the application of the leaves. The best known 
species is P. ténaw, 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. Cookiadnum 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. YOCCA. 
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 
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