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GLaApio.Lus Lingatus. PENCILLED 
Corn-Frac. _ 
Jeldieiebibiedeaeiede 
Clafs and Order. 
Taian DRIA Monoeynia. 
Generic CharaGer. 
Cor. 6-partita, ringens. Stamina ad{cendentia. 
Specific Charaéler and Synonym. fe 
GLADIOLUS /ineatus corolle limbo tubo quadruplo longiore, 
_ incurvo patente ; laciniis ellipticis, extus lineis 
3 parallelis, fuprema majore, exterioribus re- 
tufis, Salifb. Prod. pag. 40. 
IXIA /qualida B Variet. frida, foliis ftriis, laminis ovato- 
oblongis integerrimis bafi concoloribus. Hort. 
Kew. v1. p. 61. 
_ The flowers of this Corn-flag are of a delicate ftraw colour, — 
_ More or lefs tinged with orange, finely and curioufly pencilled 
~ with dark lines, which render it as much an obje& of admiration 
as brilliancy of colour does fome of the others. - 
it appears to be a very diftinét fpecies, and is one of thofe — 
Jately introduced from the Cape by way of Holland; flowers 
in May, produces offsets in abundance, and requires the fame _ 
— as the reft of the genus, grows readily, and blows — 
reely. ss ee s ze: 
_ Defcr.—Stalk about two feet bi gh, leafy below, above round, — 
fmooth 3 Leaves about half an inch wide, fi mooth, marked with 
one principal midrib; Flowers, five or fix in a fpike, which | 
nods remarkably before they open, flraw-coloured, tinged with 
Orange mm a greater or lefs degree, ftrongly and curioufly — 
marked with fine lines, three running parallel to each other 
down the middle of each fegment, from whence thofe of the — 
fide branch off ; on, the infide of each of the three lowermoft — 
fegments near the bafe, asa yellow fpot, uppermoft fegment — 
broader than the reft. Spatha two-leaved, leaves membranous, _ 
ribb’d, length of the tube of the corolla, ribs terminating in . 
fhort awns; Stamens much fhorter than the flower; Anthers _ 
linear, nearly parallel, bent a little upward, yellowifh, fides — 
dark-coloured ; Style length of the flamens, trifid, fegmen 
bowed back, dilated at the extremity ahd villous, 
