PLATE 322. 
Knirporta risrosa, Baker. (FI. Cap. Vol. VI. p. 538). 
Natural Order, LintackAg. 
An herbaceous plant, with pale yellow flowers; old leaves splitting into 
numerous fibres. Produced leaves 6 to 10 to a stem, narrowly linear, reaching to 
2 feet long, 1 to 14 line wide, margins strongly recurved, smooth, midrib very 
prominent beneath. Peduncles slender, as long as the leaves or a little longer. 
Raceme densely flowered, oblong, 1 to 2 inches long, 1 to 1} inch diameter ; 
pedicels very short, less than 1 line; bracts ovate-lanceolate, with fine brown keel, 
the lowest empty ones + inch long, upper shorter Flowers pale yellow, deflexed ; 
perianth cylindrical, slender, $ inch long, lobes 6, ovate, 1 line long. Anthers 
small, oblong, versatile, finally a little exserted, dark brown when dry. Ovary 
superior, sessile, ovoia, 3-celled, ovules numerous, superposed ; style a little longer 
than the anthers, filiform, stigma capitate. Capsule not seen. 
Habitat: Natau: Mahwaqua Mountain, 6,000 to 7,000 feet alt., Hvans, 649; 
Van Reenen, 5,000 to 6,000 feet alt., January, Hood, No. 8922. 
Drawn and described from Wood’s 8922. 
Two species cf this genus have already been figured and described in this 
work, viz., K. multiflora (Plate 206) and K. natalensis (Plate 305). The plant here 
described is smaller than either, and is a rather pretty species. Some of the 
measurements here given do not exactly agree with those given by Mr. Baker in 
the “ Flora Capensis,’’ but the plant does not agree with any other species 
described in that work. Mr. Baker described from Mr. Evans’s specimen, which 
is not in our Herbarium. In a note Mr. Baker says, “‘ Near A. gracilis, Harv., and 
K. Evansti, Baker.’ From the former our plant differs in the length of the raceme, 
and shape and size of the bracts, and from the latter in the shape and size of the 
bracts and the colour of the flowers. 
Fig. 1, flower with hract; 2, corolla opened; 8, stamen, front view; 4, same, 
back view; all enlarged. 
