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BaBIANA SAMBUCINA. ELDER-FLOWER- 
SCENTED BABIANA,. 
Te EE HE TE HEE TE HE MEME ETE Ta Sea ae ae ae 
Cla/s and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charadter.—Vid. No 576 & 680, e¢ Annals of Botany, 
: vol. 1. P. 233. 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
BABIANA Jfambucina (corolla fJubregulari) foliis’ plicato- 
nervolis, obfolete fubpubefcentibus ; {capo glabro, 
affurgente, his breviore ; floribus ereétis ; {pathis 
elongatis, lanceolatim convolutis, imbricatim ap- 
proximatis, villofis, ariftato-acuminatis; tubo 
ftri€to tis vix longiore ; limbo deorfum fauci 
turbinatim continuo, furfum recurvo-patentiflimo ; 
laciniis fubzqualibus, oblongis, obtufis, organa 
longinque exfuperantibus. G. 
BABIANA /fambucina. Nos in Ann. of Bot. v. 1. p. 233. 
GLADIOLUS /ambucinus. Facq. Hort. Schenb, v. 1. tab. 
Vabl Enum, 2.117. 2. 80. 
This fine fpecies was lately sigh ed Mr. Htszert, from 
the Cape of Good Hope. Our drawing was made when the 
bloom was rather too far advanced; and which, before we 
obtained the fpecimen for defcription, was entirely withered. 
_ Differs from /pathacea, its clofeft relative, in having the tube 
fearcely longer than the fpathe, which laft is alfo pubefcent. 
The flowers are exceeding fragrant. G. 
SpEcIERUM SYNTHESIS. 
Thunbergii. os in Ann. of Botany, v.1. p. 233. (ANTHOLYZA 
plicata) Vahi Enum. 2.122. nt4. Exempl. in 
. Herb. Bankf, 
tingens. (Grapvio.us) Breyn, Ic. Rar. 21. tab. 8. fig. 1. (AN- 
TtHoLyza.) Vabl I. c. 121. n. 2, Exempl. in Herb, 
Bankf. te ee 
tubiflora, Supra tab 680 ef 8473; quarum prior GLapio.us 
tubatus. Vahl I, c. 113. 7353 altera ejufdem, 
tubiflorus, /, ¢, 112, 72% 
fpathacea, 
