branched. Outer leaf longed, fubfalcate, ftrongly nerved. 

 The tube fhorter, equal to, or longer than the fpathe. 



This is not the Gladiolus undulalus of Linnjeus, as any 

 one may be fati&fied who will attend to the obfervations on this 

 and Gladiolus recurvus in the Mantifla, where the tube is 

 defcribed to be filiform, lax, and pendulous ; the fegments of 

 the corolla fomewhat equal and acuminate ; the ftem a foot 

 and half high. This description, which, by no means applies 

 to our plant, correfponds very well with Gladiolus cufpidatus 

 of Jacquin, the fegments of which are alfo more decidedly 

 and conftantly undulated. However, as it has been already 

 three times figured, and is known to Botanifts in general by the 

 prefent title, which agrees well enough with it, as does the 

 name of cufpidatus with the real undulatus, we retain it, as 

 mod likely to prevent confufion. Gladiolus undulatits of 

 Lourfiro Cochin, 36. having a "four-parted laciniate nec- 

 " tary," can icarcely be of this genus, although made a variety 

 of Lin nous's plant by him and Profeffor Martin. Miller 

 received a bulb of our plant from the Gardener Vanhazen of 

 Leyden, who had raifed it from Cape feeds. For its culture, 



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The generic efiential character above given will be found 

 to contain a very natural family, excluding none of the fpecies 

 already known, but fuch as will rank under IVatfonia, Antho- 

 Iyza, Babiana K \ or one or other of the fubdivifions of Ixia, 

 excepting only Gladiolus gramineas, which is a completely 

 diftinft genus. 



The following are the fpecies already defcribed, and many 

 others are to be met with in our gardens : 



. Gladiolus zvatfomus >• abbrcviatus, And. Bot. rep. 166. — — 



trijiis ; verjicolor : gracilis ,- hynlimis ; carinatus ;— ' 



bre-vifolius ; flexnofus ; mcrianellus ; hirjutus ; communis ; 



byzantinus, Miller: cardinalis, Schneev. Curtis: floribundus; 



undulatus : angujlus- blandus (albidus, Jacq.) ; carr.eus ; 



cufpidatus; alatus ; alalus, Andrews, t/ 8. galeatns, 



Andrews, 122 ; viridis, Hon. Kew. add.- tcnellus; 



Jctifolius. 



In the above lift, thofe which are not feparated by a line, 

 are nearly allied : fuch as are not followed by a citation, are in 

 Willdenow's edition of Spec. Plant. 



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