L 1053: J 
BABIANA SULPHUREA. PALE-FLOWERED 
BaBIANA. 
Dhiba 
Clafs and Order. 
3 
TrrianprRia MonocyNIA, 
Generic Obarader—Vid. Ne 576 € 680, 
et Annals of Botany, 1. p. 233 
, Specific Charaéfer and “Synonyms. 
BABIANA /ulpburea ; foliis totis villofis ; {capo affurgenter 
inclinato his longiore ; media {patharum valva 
duplo longiore; tubo hac breviore; limbo 
fubregulari, ere&to, patentiflimo; laciniis ovatis 
oblongis, tubo fubtriplo longioribus ; ftaminibus 
fubad{cendentibus. G. : 
BABIANA /ulphurea. Nobis fupra No. 1019. pag. alt. uti et 
in Annals of Bot. 1. 234. 
GLADIOLUS /ulphureus. Facq. Coll. 3. 258. Ic. Rar. 2- 
239. Vahl Enum. 2. 99- re 
GLADIOLUS plicatus. Bot. Rep. tab. 268. 
GLADIOLUS pigmaeus. Burm, Flore Cap. 1.22 gpl, its >: 
46. ? Pluk, t. 424. f. 8. ? 
It is very difficult to define with any precifion the fpecific 
difference between this and frida ; yet we think them diftiné& 
fpecies. Befides general appearance, the ftamens are here 
fubadfcendent, not entirely trifarious, neither is the corolla 
precifely regular; the fegments are alfo proportionately longer 
than the tube. , ; 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was 
imported fome years ago by Mefirs. Lez and Kennepy of 
Hammerfmith. Seems to us intermediate between /iridia and 
 plicataa G. 
