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 Gladiolus Namaquensis. Thick-Leaved 



CORNFLAG. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. — Fid. N os - 538 8c 562. 



Specific Charafter and Synonyms. 



GLADIOLUS namaquenfis, foliis coriaceis oblongiufculis ? 

 margine craffa, lacinia fuprema formcato- 

 concava : lateralibus rhombeo-ovatis planis 

 extenfo-patentib.us : infimis conniventibus un- 

 guibus convolutis. G. 



GLADIOLUS. Herb. Bank/. 



GLADIOLUS galeatus. Bot. Rep. 122. Ejufque Recenf. 15. 

 (exclufis fynonymisj. 



Bulb round, flightly compreffed, refemblfng that of Gla- 

 diolus alatus. Leaves four, coriaceous; inner ones gradually 

 fliorter, narrower, farther fheathing ; outer one oblong ; 

 fubacute, attenuated into a kind of broad petiole, ftreaked 

 with 10 — 15 equidiftant, parallel, not prominent ribs, and 

 furrounded by a thick, brownifli, cartilaginous border, in 

 the manner of Watson i a marginata. Stem from fix inches 

 to a foot high, bluntly triquetral, flexuofe, longer than the 

 leaves, with a fpathe-form decurrent leaf. Flowers 3 — 12, 

 nodding, large, fhcwy, fmelling like violets or orris root, ex- 

 panding about May. Spathe much longer than the tube, outer 

 valve fubventricofe, fubdccurrent. Corolla ringent : tube 

 with the faux turbinate and very fhort ; upper fcgment oval- 

 lanceolate j fide ones fhortly acute, flat, and fprcading ; lower 

 ones connivcnt, propendent, unguiculate, lateral ones narrowcft, 

 cuneate, fubacute, with convolute claws, lowefl oval, broader 

 than its lateral ones. Parts of fructification arched-adfcendent, 

 fhorter than fegmcnts. 



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