Tap. 7791, 
GLADIOLUS SULPHUREUS. 
Native of the Transvaal. 
Nat. Ord. Intpra.—Tribe Ixina, 
Genus GuapioLus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iil. p. 709.) 
GuapioLus (Eugladiolus) sulphureus; caule 1-12 pedale, foliis 14-2-pedalibus 
ensiformibus medio ad 1 poll, latis firmis pallide viridibus nervis prominalis 
ineequalibus costatis, floribus 6-8 suberectis secundis pallide aureis viridi 
tinctis, spica erecta, rhachi valido, spathz valvis exterioribus 14-2 poll. 
longis lanceolatis erectis viridibus, perianthii tubo 1}-pollicari anguste 
infundibulari paullo’ decurvo, limbi segmentis tubo zwquilongis oblongis 
obtusis apiculatisve patenti-recurvis interioribus paullo minoribus, stami- 
nibus tubo corollz longioribus, antheris fere } poll. longis linearibus 
arcuatis sulphureis, stigmatibus clavellatis recurvis. 
G. sulphureus, de Graaf ex Molkenb. in Jaarboek Tuinboww, 1850, p. 89, ewm 
ic. color. (non Baker). 
G. Adlami, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. i. p. 233; Handb. of Irid. p. 219; 
in Dyer, Fl. Capens, vol. vi. p. 156. 
The publication of this very distinct species of Gladiolus 
in the Jaarboek Tuinbouw so long ago as 1850, has been 
overlooked hitherto by all succeeding authorities, though it 
was accompanied by an excellent coloured figure. If 
does not appear in the “Kew Index,” the periodical in 
which it is described being so very rarely occupied with 
the description of new species of plants that it was not 
consulted during the laborious search for names involved 
in the preparation of the “ Index.” There is, however, 
an excellent specimen of the plant bearing the above 
name in the Kew Herbarium, presented in 1893 by Mr. 
Max Leichtlin, which was raised from Cape seed twenty 
years earlier. 
Mr. Molkenboer, the author of the article in the Jaar- 
boek, who cites de Graaf as the author of the species, 
regards it as a hybrid between G. floribundus and natalensis, 
alluding no doubt to the floribundus of the Dutch gardens 
(= G. flabellifer, Tausch.) and natalensis, Remw., which is 
a synonym of G. psittacinus. That this is an error is now 
clear. 
In the description in “ Flora Capensis” of G. Adlami, 
Aveust Ist, 1901. 
