bright fearlet; {cent none. oSpathés green -below, {phacelate} 
and red upwards, fhorter than the tube, which is about the 
Iength of the faux andithat again of the limb; fegments ob-)- 
liquely patent or fubbilabiate (upper fegment not Rretched > 
horizontally forward as ‘in’ Watsonta- meriana, No: 418) 
nearly equal, oval-oblong, narrowed at their bafes, fubacute, | 
alternate ones, rather.more. fo. .Parts.. of. fruétification pro- 
minent, nearly equal to the corolla, equal among themfelves. _ 
Anthers dark violet. The talleft of the genus yet known to) 
us. Blows freely towards the end of Sammer, with a fucceffion | 
of bloom for a month or longer. Seeds and produces offsets . 
‘in abundance. Requires a largifh and very deep pot, light 
earth, and plenty of water after it has fhewn the flowering | 
fem. - eee ee = oe | 
A native of the Cape, and now common in moft of the | 
nurferies about town; as well as the variety (a) which, how-— 
ever, is a much Jefs deftrable plant, on account of the dullnefs 
of its colour. Var. («) is known among the nurferymen by 
the name of ANTHOLYZA cinerea, as (B) is by that of Av- 
‘tuHoryza fulgens ; they agree with each other in every thing 
bat in the colours of corolla and leaf. Jacgurn, in bh 
Icones plant, rar. has united as varieties two very diftin@ fpe- 
cies, viz. the var. (a) of the prefent fpecies, figured in his 
934th plate, and the Warson1a rofea, Herb. Bankf. (Tre: 
—BeERG's var. (0) of GLADIOLUS marginatus) in his e35th plat 
Of the laft we have never been able to procure a living fp 
cimen, nor have we traced it to any Englifh colle@ion : 
yet. Our drawing‘was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs, Gaus 
woop and Wykes, Kenfington.” Go> 
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