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GLapioLus MILLERI. Mi.ier’s Corn-FLac. 
SEE ER eae ae ae ete desk te sleale se sie seat 
Cla/s and Order. ' 
TRIANDRIA Monocynia. 
Generic Charafer.—Vid. Ne: 538 & 562. 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
GLADIOLUS Milleri ; foliis prenervofis, f{patha turgida 
tubum ftridtifimum fubexcedente, floribus 
ereéto-fecundis bilabiato-campanulatis hinc 
femiurceolato-gibbis: lacinia fuperiore late- 
ralibus. anguitioré: 4G. = = 
ANTHOLYZA foliis linearibus fulcatis floribus albis uno 
verfu difpofitis, Mill. DiG. n. 2. Ic. p. 27. 
tab. 40. 
GLADIOLUS /ecundus. B. Herb. Bankf. exempl. capenfe. 
Bulb about the fize of a pigeon’s egg faftigiately ovate. 
Leaves 4~—5, enfiform-lanceolate with many prominent nerves 
(whence Mitrer’s idea of their being fulcate) fhorter than 
the ftem which is generally about a foot high, reclined and 
flexuofe at the rachis. Flowers pointing one way, uprightifh, 
large, inconfpicuous, fcentlefs. Outer valve of the fpathe 
convolute, turgid, greenifh, generally fuffuled with purplifh — 
brown, reaches nearly to, the middle of the faux in fome, in 
others fearcely to the top of the tube. Tube flefhy, very 
ftriét, peduncle-like, much fhorter than the fegments of the 
limb, which are urceolately turgid downwards on the under fide ; 
upper middle fegment narrower than its fide ones refembling in 
ape the loweft ; fegments in general linear-oblong, equal in 
length, patent upwards, two upper lateral ones rather the broadeft; 
amens not half their length. The corolla on its firft emerfion 
from its fpathe is quite white, but gradually changes to the colour 
exhibited in the plate; which chara€teriftic is noticed by Mitt eR 
_ In his general, though he calls it white in his {pecific defcription, 
Clofely allied to Grapio.us undulatus and floribundus. Its tube 
is fingularly folid, flefhy, and fomewhat brittle. Raifed by 
1LLER from Cape feed in 1757; flowers in April. We have 
never yet found the above cited figure of Mitier’s adduced as 
_ afynonym or quoted asa fpecies in any book knownto us. In _ 
the Bankfian Herbarium there is a Cape {pecimen. Our figure _ 
_ Wastaken at the Nurfery of Meffrs. Gaimwoon and Wyxes, _ 
_ Kenfington; the plant was not fo much reclined at the rachis, _ 
_.hor fo many flowered as ufual, as the entire inflorefcence of | 
S ftrong plant could not have been fhewn in our fized page. 
