C 591 ] 



Gladiolus Carneus. Flesh-Coloured ■ 

 cornflag. 



C/j/> and Order. 



TiUANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. — Fid. N os - 538 Sc 562. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms, 



GLADIOLUS cameus ; fpicadifticha, tubo curvato fpathalon- 

 giore, laciniis nutantibus compreflb-ringentibus: 

 lateralibus fuperioribus divaricato-patentibus 

 recurvis acuminatis : infima anguftiffima. G. 



GLADIOLUS cameus. Jacq. ic. rar. t. 255. WUld. Sp. H> 

 1. 213. cseteris exclufis fynonymis, 



GLADIOLUS cufpidatus. Bot. Rep. tab. 147. 



Leaves enfiform, nerved, fheathing at the bafe, fliorter than 

 the item, edged with a flender white filiform cartilage. Stem 1— a 

 feet high. Flowers 3 — 5, narrow fu nnel-form below the fegments. 

 Upper fegment broadeft, lanceolate, concave, acuminate, con- 

 volute above, where it is alfo recurved and fometimes flightty 

 undulate; the three loweft narrower, nearly linear, lowelt 

 ftraighter, narrowed. Differs from Gladiolus cufpidatus 

 befides in colour and in being lefs waved, in having its fpathes 

 more inflated and not fo convolute, fpike more decidedly 

 diftich, flowers not fo upright, tube fhoner, more curved, lei* 

 filiform; fegments proportionably longer, being nearly the 

 length of the tube, leaves more confpicuoufly margined. 



Native of the Cape. Flowers in May and June, earlier 

 than Gladiolus cufpidatus. Scentlefs; blows freely, and 

 is eafily propagated either by feed or offsets. The fpike being 

 too large for our page, one rank of its flowers was necefTarily 

 omitted, leaving the fpathes to fhew the diftich character 

 of the inflorefcence. 



Our drawing was taken at Meflrs. Grim wood and Wvkes's. 



Kenfington. G, 



