leaves rather more blunt and falcate, corolla fmaller and 

 lefs patent, veins more prominent, laminas narrower, more 

 rounded, often retufe and incurved, claws lefs hyaline ; be- 

 fides in fmelling very fweet, whereas crocata is perfe&ly fcent- 

 lefs. In the Hort. Kew. the Triton i a (Gladiolus) Iineata t 

 Bot. Mag No. 487, is made a variety of this ; but upon what 

 foundation we know not, as befides the numerous differences 

 above ground the habits of the bulbs are very diftincl; in Tri- 

 ton 1 a Izneata, though it becomes effete, the bulb does not 

 entirely perilh till the lecond year after flowering, while in our 

 plant it completely difappears before the feed is ripe. De La 

 Roche, in his Defer, nov. plant n. 13. p. 24. in a note on 

 Tritonia crocata, his Ixia iridifoiia, declares himfelf at a 

 lofs whether to allot it to Ixia or Gladiolus, notices 

 the declined pofition of the parts of fructification and the cur- 

 vature of the ftamens, which he defenbes by the word fig- 

 tnoidea (figtmdike). We have founded the genus on the fol- 

 lowing defcribed fpecies, viz. Ixia crocata, Ltnn. Bot. Mag. 

 No. 184. Ixia fenefirata, Jacq. Ixia mini at a, Jacq. Ixia 

 Jqualida, Hort. Kelso. Ixia deufta, Hort Kew. Gladiolus tf- 

 neatus,SaltJb. (Bot. Mag. No. 487. Ixia fqualida^. Hort. Kew.) 

 Gl ADioLusfecuriger, Hort. Kew. Bot. Mag. No. 383. Gladi- 

 olus fiavus Hort. Kew. Gladiolus refraclus ? Jacq. Name 

 derived from Triton, in the fignification of a vane or weathercock, 

 in allufion to the variable dire6tion in the ftamens of the diffe- 

 rent fpecies. We have not adopted Thunb erg's trivial name of 

 lancea, for although, taking circumftances together, we have 

 little doubt but this is his plant, yet the defcription is far too 

 vague to apply with certainty to any fpecies. Flowers in 

 M^y. Introduced by Mr. Masson, in 1774. Our figure 

 was drawn at the nurfery of Meffrs. Grimwood and 

 Wykes, Kenfington. G. 



