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little longer than pedicels. Perianth cylindrical, red with 

 green tips, lobes 3-5 lines long. Stamens and style included, 

 equalling the perianth. 



Habitat. Natal. Rocky hill on the farm " Kelvin Grove " 

 near Glencoe, 4-5,000 feet altitude. J. Medley Wood, No. 5,192. 

 December 1896. 



This plant seems to fall between A. Cooperi and A. 

 microcantha ; from the former it differs in leaves, which are not 

 " tapering gradually to the point," in the length of the pedicels 

 and bracts, colour of flower, and length of perianth tube. From 

 the latter it differs in texture and shape of leaves, number of 

 empty bracts, looseness of racene, length of fertile bracts and 

 perianth tube. Of the latter species, however, we have no 

 specimen with which to compare it. It is a plant well worth 

 cultivation, having much the appearance when in flower of the 

 well-known Cyrtanthus angustifolius. 



Kniphofia mult i flora. Wood & Evans. 



Leaves lorate, rigid, with numerous veins, margin finely and 

 irregularly serrulate, 3-4 feet long, -|-1 inch wide. Peduncles 

 equalling the leaves. Racemes densely flowered, 12-15 inches 

 long, sub-spicate, with short pedicels. Bracts linear, longer 

 than pedicels. Flowers erect, very numerous, 300-400 in a 

 yellow raceme. Perianth subcylindrical, a little constricted in 

 the middle, |-| inch long, 2 lines wide, segments very short, as 

 broad as long. Stamens and style much exserted. 



Habitat. Natal. In a swamp, summit of Drakensberg Mts., 

 between Van Reenen and Nelson's Kop, 5-6,000 feet altitude. 

 J. Medley Wood, No. 5,972. March, 1896. 



Differs from all the other Natal species of the genus known 

 to us by its quite erect flowers, also by its long narrow many 

 flowered raceme. 



The second decade was published in the " Journal of Botany" 

 for December last and includes the following plants : — - 



Hypericum natalense. Wood & Evans. 



Stems many from a wood root, 6-15 inches high, erect, terete, 

 glabrous ; Leaves ovate, ob-ovate or oblong, obtuse at apex, 

 rounded at base, sub-sessile, glabrous, flat, pellucid-punctate, 

 veiny, 3-8 lines long, 1J-4 lines wide, cymes dichotomous; sepals 

 oblong, entire, pellucid punctate, sub-mucronate, 3 lines long, 

 petals ovato-oblong, not black spotted, longer than sepals, 

 Styles 5, free from the base, Flowers yellow. 



Habitat. Natal. Near bank of Mooi River, 4-5,000 feet alt., 

 October. J. Medley Wood, No. 4,034. 



