Refugium Botanicum.] 3 [ January, 1870. 
TAB. 169. 
Natural Order LiIniacE®. 
Tribe HEMEROCALLIDER. 
Genus Kyrenoria, Moench. 
K. pracox (Baker). Foliis bipedalibus ensiformibus deorsum 1 poll. 
latis pallide viridibus marginibus subtiliter denticulatis carina levi, 
scapo foliis subduplo breviore, racemo preecoci oblongo-lanceolato 
denso 40—60-floro, pedicellis perigoniis 7—8-plo brevioribus, brac- 
teis lanceolatis acutis pedicellis duplo vel triplo longioribus, peri- 
gonio sesquipollicari supra ovarium leviter constricto, staminibus 
mox perigonio eequantibus. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, discovered and introduced 
by Mr. Cooper. 
In general habit, texture of leaf, and the mode of arrangement 
and colour of its flowers, agreeing with the species of the genus 
which have been already published. Leaves two feet or rather 
more long, “acutely keeled throughout, so that the two halves 
meet nearly at a right angle, the edge finely denticulate, the keel 
smooth, the lower part an inch broad, the upper part narrowed 
gradually to a long acuminate point, the colour of both sides a 
pale but not at all glaucous green. Scape erect, terete, four 
to five lines in thickness, fifteen to eighteen inches high exclusive 
of the raceme. aceme four to six inches long, three inches 
broad when expanded, densely forty- to sixty-flowered. Developed 
pedicels cernuous, two lines long, subtended by lanceolate acute 
bracts two or three times their length. Perianth sixteen to 
eighteen lines long, bright red in sunlight, passing to bright 
yellow scarcely tinged with red in the flowers which the sun does 
not reach, a uniform slender tube two to two and a half lines 
thick except that it is slightly constricted above the ovary, the 
divisions oblong-deltoid, an eighth of an inch deep, the stamens 
subequal and just reaching at last to its mouth. 
This flowers much earlier than in any of the previously-known 
species, being in full perfection at Reigate by the middle of May. 
In the pedicels, bracts, and shape of the perianth, it comes very 
near the old well-known K. Uvaria, of which there is an excel- 
lent figure in Bot. Mag. t. 4816, but the leaves are broader and 
not at all glaucous, the raceme is shorter, the scape not more 
