funplici parum breviore, 1 — 2 .caulinis brevibus ; {pica 

 remdtius bi-triflora, inflexione fecunda ; valva fpathae 

 extima longiore, tubum cum fauce floris plurimum exfu- 

 petante, quam limbus breviore ; corolla ere&o-nutante, 

 infundibuliformi-ringente, parum ineequalij tubo ereclo 

 in brevem et late turbinatam faucem exeunte ; limbo 

 his fimul longiore, nutante, ex campanulato indiftinc- 

 tius bilabiato, recurvato-divaricante, laciniis aequilongis, 

 media fumma oblongo-lanceolata lateralibus elliptico- 

 lanceolatis fubanguftiore, media ima elliptico-lanceolata 

 lateralibus fuis fpathulato-oblongis acuminatis latiore; 

 ftaminibus limbo bis vel ultra brevioribus. G. 



GLADIOLUS haftatus. Jhunb. Prod. 185 ; et in Ail. Soc. Hijl. 

 Nat. Hqfn. v. 6. Fab! Enum. 2. 86. n. 18 ; (a nobis in Spec. 

 Emm. in No. 992 minus reBe pro fynonymo Gladioli 

 involuti datus.) G. 



GLADIOLUS trif.is. 0. haRatus. Tbunb. Diff. de Glad. n. 8. 



Nearly allied to the Gladiolus hlandus of the prefent work 

 (fee N' s - 625, 645, and 648); but differs by having a propor- 

 tionately longer and very unequally valved fpathe, a broader 

 lower middle fegment to the corolla, as well as by the remarkable 

 haftate honeymark on each of the lower lateral fegments of that; 

 the refemblance in the form of which to the figure of a fpade on 

 playing-cards, feems to have fuggefted the Englifh gardener's 

 iper fie name. Rootjbeaib gseeaift white fpotted with purple; 

 /km about a foot high j broadeft leaf about the third of an inch 

 acrofs ; corolla about two inches and a half high, pinkifh white, 

 redden on the outfide ; honeymark (nedlarojiigma) on each lower 

 lateral fegment, large, nearly central in the lamina, cordate- 

 haRate, yellow with a narrow fomewhat radiant border of a 

 violet colour, from the finus at the bafe of which a fixnilarly 

 coloured ftripe is continued to the mouth of the tube. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. Formerly imported into our 

 gardens from Holland ; now rarely met with in them. We are 

 obliged to the Hon. W. Herbert for the fpecimen from which 

 our drawing lias been taken. Blooms in April and May. & 



CORRIGENDUM. 



In No. 992, Spec. Enum. verfo folio 1. 2, dele verba " ** 

 u y&que hjtflams, Vahl I. c. 86. ». 18." 



