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Gladiolus Cuspidatus. Tall Corn Flag, 

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TrIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic CharaRen—Vid. No. 569. 



Specific Character and Synonyms* 



GLADIOLUS cufpidatus ,- corolla femiringenter-infundibuli- 

 formi ; tubo filiformi fpatha limbove duplo 

 longiore, Iaciniis longe attenuatis recurvis un- 

 dulatis; infimis duplo anguftionbus. G. 



GLADIOLUS cufpidatus. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. ^.257. Coll SuppL 

 17. Willd. 6p. PL 1. 210. Bot. Rep. tab. 219. 



GLADIOLUS undulatus. Linn. Mant. 27. Syfl. Veg. Murr. 

 86. Reich. 1. 101. Houtt. Linn. Pfi. Syji. li. 

 59. GmeL Syjt. Nat. 110. exclufo fynonymo. 



GLADIOLUS trijiis. var. (o) hajtatus, corollis albo incarnatis 

 macula haftata. ThunL Dijf. de Glad, 13. ? 



Leaves enfiform, generally fhorter than the ftem, and nar- 

 row in proportion to their height. Stem 2—3 feet high, ereft, 

 round, lube filiform, ftraight, nearly twice the length of the 

 fpathe, above which it is gradually enlarged into a faux ; leg- 

 me; its lanceolate, far-attenuate, much fhorter than tube, and 

 generally waved, upper ones broaden, uppermoft nearly ftraight, 

 recurved at the end. Flowers vary much in colour and in the 

 form of the mark on the lower fegments, which is fometimes 

 oblolete as well as the undulation. Our reafons for not 

 having reftored Lin nous's fpecific name of undulatus to 

 this fpecies may be feen No 538 of this work, though we 

 riow wifii we had retained the trivial name of augufius, given 

 by Thunberg for that, and Linnaus's for this. — * 

 The latter, in his Mantijfa, fixes upon this fpecies as the link 

 that unites Gladiolus and Ixia, which he would hardly have 

 done had he feen the numerous fpecies that have been fmce 

 dilcovered, many of which feem to approach much nearer 

 to Ixia. This magnificent fpecies is a native of the Cape, 

 flowers m May and June. Our drawing was taken from the 

 colleaion of Meffrs. Grimwood and Wykes, at Kensington- 

 Its time of introduaion uncertain j fciut finee the publication 

 of Hort. Kew, G ? 



