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Gladiolus Quadrangularis. Square- . 

 Leaved Corn-Flag. 



Triandria MoMogynia. 



Generic Cbaratler. — Vid. No. 562. 



Obs. Anther <z dorfo accumbenter Jufpenfa, verfatiks, fubtus dehlfcentes ; 

 Stigmata his imminent. G. 



Specific Charafler and Synonyms. 



GLADIOLUS quadrangularis ; foliis enfiformi - linearibus 

 fulcato -quadrangularis, corolla geniculato- 

 recurva: fauce cylindrica tubo fubsequali, la- 

 cinia fuprema maxima porrefta : infima mini- 

 ma fubulata. G. 



ANTHOLYZA quadrangularis; ftaminibus declinatis : alis re- 

 volutis : foliis lineari tetragonis. Burm.fi. cap. 



GLADIOLUS abbreviates. Bot. Rep. tab. 166. 



Leaves precifely thofe of Gladiolus trifiis, n. 274. Stem 

 2 — '3 feet high, upright, rigid, round, tinged with reddifh 

 yellow towards the Rachis. Flowers 2 — 3, ground yellow, 

 covered with dotted fcarlet lines confluent towards the bafe of 

 the faux. Spathes coloured like the flowers, but uniformly fo 

 pot ftreaked, outer valve the length of the faux. Corolla very 

 ^regular. Upper fegment ovate-oblong, very large, hyaline 

 °n the fides, two upper lateral ones rhomb-ovate, feveral times 

 fmaller, but larger than lower lateral ones, which arc ovate, 

 ac ute, loweft very fmall, awl-fhaped; the three lowermoft have 

 twin-ovate lucid green ftains in the middle. 



This very rare and fingular plant, a native of the Cape, was 

 Produced by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Nurferymen at 



Hammerfmith. 



