ftandard, and thinks it beft for the prefent only to divide it 

 into feveral fe&ions, diftinguifhed from each other by charac- 

 tcriftical marks, with notices of fuch as appear to him moll 

 likely to become the foundations of future feparate genera. 

 With thefe obfervations we hope foon to have an opportunity 

 of treating our botanical readers. In the mean time, there is 

 one divifion, the fpecies compofing which are at prefent dif- 

 perfed in the three genera of Ixia, Gladiolus, and 

 Antholyza, fo very dill in cl at firft fight from the reft, by 

 their fmooth fheathing petioles, terminated in general by a 

 plicate and villofe leaf, with their bulbs fituated unufually deep 

 in the earth, that Mr. Gawler has with the greateft pro- 

 priety united thefe into a feparate genus, with the name of 

 Bab i an a. They are called by the Dutch at the Cape, Ba- 

 burner^ from the circumftance of their bulbs being a favourite 

 food of the baboons. This genus will contain, befides fe- 

 vcral hitherto undefcribed fpecies, Ixia villofa, Hort. Kew. 

 Ixia villofa, Jacq. I x i a pum'cea, J acq. Ixia mbro-cyanea, 

 Jacq. et Rot. Mag. Gladiolus Jiri&us, Hort. Kew. Gladi- 

 olus plicatus t Thunb. et Linn. Gladiolu s, fulphureus, Jacq. 

 Gladiolus fambucinu s, Hort. Schoenb. Gladiolus fra- 

 grans, Hort. Schoenb. Gladiolus mucronatus, Jacq. Gla- 

 diolus Jpathaceus, Thunb. Gladiolus tiibi'florus t Linn. 

 Gladiolus tubatus t Jacq. Gladiolus crifpus, Thunb. 

 Antholyza ra^m, Linn. Antholyza plic ata, Thunb. 



Ixia, Gladiolus, Antholyza, Watsonia, and Ba- 

 nana, all require a fimiiar treatment ; that is, merely to be 

 kept from being frozen, or too much chilled, as they frequently 

 are in a pit, in a roomy light greenhoufe, into which plenty of 

 a >r can be admitted, and to be planted in fmallifh pots with 

 lh e black mould taken from the furface of heaths, well rotted 

 and thoroughly mixed with a fmall quantity of loam. No ar- 

 uficial heat muft be ufed, except in very hard weather. Little 

 water muft be given in the Winter for fear of rotting the 

 bu 'bs, but abundance in the Spring and Summer. Upon the 

 de cay of the leaves the bulbs mould be taken up, carefully 

 dl 'ied, and replanted in September or Oftober. 



