eT be el 
Giaprorus Ancusrus. Nargow-Leaved 
ea de cee ee, PORE NS oe 
ein ieiebbk sak dee 
: Clafs and Orders, 
TRIANDAIA Monocrynia. 
Generic Charaéter.—Vid. Ne 538 & 562. 
Specific Charafer and § ‘ynonyins. 
GLADIOLUS anguffus ; foliis gramineis anguftis linearibus 
:  unicoftatis, floribus fecundis ereétis: tubo fpa- — 
: tha limbo longiore : laciniis fupremis latioribus 
Se Janceolato-ovalibus. G. 
GLADIOLUS anguflus. Sp. Pl. 53. Mill. ic. 142. f. 2. 
Roy. lugb.. 19. Hort. Clif. 20. tab. 6. Burm. 
prod. 2. Herb. Gronov. Syft. Veg. Murr. 86. 
Hort. Kew. 1.65. Facq. coll. 4. 154. ic. rar. 
2. Gmel. Syft. Nat. 111. Willd. Sp. Pls. 
: 218. exclufo Thunbergii fynonymo. 
GLADIOLUS iriftis, var. p. cordatus. Corollis albo-incarnatis 
macula cordata foliis planioribus. Thund. 
Diff. 13. a Ei : A 
GLADIOLUS africanus, folio gramineo, floribus carngis 
maculam rhomboideam purpuream infcriptis 
uno verfu pofitis, Boer’, Ind. alt. 2. 127. u. 5. 
Leaves narrow, upright, fhorter than ftem, with a fingle 
prominent midrib. Stem flexuofe, reclined upwards, from « 
foot to two feet high. Flowers g3—5, about four inches long, ~ 
ftraight, narrow, funnel-formed, one-ranked, f{centlefs. Upper 
fegments broader, middle one broadeft, lower ones rather 
- harrower ; all flat and fomewhat patent. Cultivated by Mit- | 
_ ‘FER in 1757. A native of the Cape, and feems to have been 
