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Wartsonia Brevirotia. SHORT-LEAVED 
: WATSONIA. 
JHEP HE HbHHBHHpibe 
 Clafs and Order. 
Trianpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Charader.—Vid. Ne 537 & 553 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. | 
WATSONIA Zbrevifolia; foliis humilioribus oblongiufculis lu- 
cidis, tubo fauce limboque longitudine paribus, 
laciniis regulari-patentibus: intimis latioribus, 
ftaminibus refupinato-declinatis. G. 
GLADIOLUS caryopbyllens. Houtt. Linn, Pfl. Syft.11. 77 
196. Jc Be : 
GLADIOLUS marginatus, var. 8. Thunb. Diff. n. 20 ? 
ANTHOLYZA /picata. Bot. Rep. tab. 56. ejus Recenf. 24. 
app. Ale . age 
Bulb as ufual in the genus. Leaves 4, oblong, enfiform, _ 
diftich, very fhort, fmooth and fhining, mucronate, with wile 2 
form cartilaginous: edging. Stem ftraight, branched, from 
6 inches to a foot high. Spathe green, broad, upright, con- 
duplicate, ftem-embracing, at the end truncately fubacute, 
{phacelate, and coloured. Corolla recurved, regular, patent: 
faux narrow-turbinate. Segments nearly obovate, fhortly 
pointed, inner ones almoft twice the broadeft, flat, outer la- 
terally fubrevolute. Parts of fru€tification declined, affur- 
gent. Segments of the ftigmas fhort revolute, extending 
rather beyond the anthers. Corolla micaceous, glittering 
very much in the fun, its colour not to be reprefented by art. — 
Flowers about May. Scentlels. bs 2 
Imported from the Cape of Good Hope by Meffrs. Lee 
and Kennepy, Nurferymen, at Hammerfmith. Is ftillarare . 
plant, but propagates with the ufual facility of the genus. 
We have never yet feen an indigenous f{pecimen in any. 
‘Herbarium, ; G. Ree 
