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Babiana Plicata. Sweet-Scented 

 Babiana. 



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C/j/jt <z#^ Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charatler. 



Spiitha triva'lvutoidea, valvala intima bipartita. Cor. ball 

 tubuiofa, limbus 6-partitus. Stigm. 3, recurvo-patentia e ca- 

 nalicuUto explicata. Cap/, rotunda, torulofa. Sem. pauca an- 

 gula'ta. G. 



Obs. Bulbus ehngato- amicus tunica fibrofa involufus, fapius alte Jubter- 



raneus Folia plicata, e petiolis eretlis fubmembranaceis linearibus corfuolutis 

 flabelloidee explicata , utrinque acuminato-contrafla, jcepius pube/centia, nervi 



compares nulla precipuo vel medio. Corolla tubi longitudine et laciniarum 

 Jitu mire ludlt. Stamina nunc ad/cendentia et parallcla nunc erecla et tri- 

 fariam /pedant ia. Cap/uta /apius (/emperne ?) pubefcens. Ab IxiA, 



Watsonia, Antholvza, f/GLADiOLO, praterquam babitu, /patha 



imprimis di/crepat. G. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



BABIANA plicata ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis molliflimis Iaxe 

 plicatis villofis, limbo bilabiato-patente : laciniis 

 fubaequalibus tubo fubaequatis alternis fubundulatis, 

 genitalibus adfcendentibus. G. 



GLADIOLUS plicatus. Thunb. Diff. 24. prod. 10. Hort. Kew. 

 1. 63. Burm. prod. 2. ? Nee veroLinn. vel Jacq. 

 Ic. rar. vel Coll. 



GLADIOLUS /ragrans. Jacq. Hort. Scboenb. p. 7. tab. 14. 

 Sifyrinchium latifolium floribus patentibus vix 

 difformibus. Breyn. prod. 3. p. 22. /. 9. f. 2. 



IRIS africana verficolor pumila plicatis et hirfutis foliis radice 

 bulbofa. Pink, tnant. 424. /. S. ? 



GLADIOLUS />//Vtf/#.f( r K)ilorevaricgatofuaveolente. Soland, 

 MSS. Banks. 



The fpecies of this natural order having been ufually deter- 

 mined from herbariums only, many fynonyms have in confe- 

 rence been heaped under the prefent head, which belong to 



what 



