lefs. Tube 6-fuleate, generally tjifted. Faux cylindric, 

 bluntly keeled underneath. Upper iegment concave, blunter, 

 about the length of the parts of fructification, which are accum- 

 bent to it, the others acute, flat, much fmaller, three alternate 

 ones leaft, two lower lateral ones larger than thefe, but far 

 lefs than the uppermofl one. Anthers fubfagittate-linear, dark 

 purple. Capfule the fize of a fmall cherry, burfting when the 

 feeds are ripe ; feeds deep yellow, roundifh, preffed nearly 

 into angles from miuual juxta-pofition. 



We are far from offering the above efTential character as a 

 permanent one, or with confidence, fo few fpecies having yet 

 fallen in our way ; but we hope foon to give fomething more 

 definite. The capfule and feeds are precifely thofe of Gla- 

 diolus communis^ which in thofe parts differs from all other 

 Gladioli, in fo much that, could this be feparated from the 

 other fpecies and added to Antiiolyza, the characters of the 

 two would be eafy and precife ; the one with round capfule 

 and feeds, the other with an oblong capfule and numerous 

 lenticular-fhaped winged feeds. 



For the means of prefenting this beautiful plant to the 

 public, we are indebted to the Rev. Sackville Bale, who, 

 aware of the rarenefs of its flowering, mod kindly remitted it 

 9 to us from his collection" at Withyham, near Tunbridge, 

 where it flowered by the help of the flove in February. It 

 flowered ft i 1 1 earlier at Meffrs. Russell and Wilmot's 

 Nurfery, at Lewifham, who have had the goodnefs to fend us 

 the fpike with ripe feeds, and is at this time coming into 

 flower in the greenhoufe of Edward Woodford, Efq. 

 Vauxhall. Had our drawing been fortunately taken before 

 the upper flowers were expanded, the pyramidal form would 

 have been an advantage to our figure. Cultivated by Miller 

 in 1759. Flowers in May and June, according to Hort. Keu\ 

 The trivial name (given it by Cornuti) of 2Ethiopian> is not 

 a very eligible one for a plant peculiar to the Cape and adjacent 

 country ; he mentions its flowering at Paris in 1633, his figure 

 excellent. In habit of corollse it approaches Gladiolus 

 Watfonius and Gladiolus quadrangu!aris % which lad we fiiall 

 give in our next number. 





