book of Irideos," p. 226, as a sub-genus), of which it has 

 the large bracts, and funnel-shaped perianth not suddenly 

 contracted into a slender stipes as in the typical species of 

 Antliolyza, of which examples are figured, under Gladiolus ^ 

 namely, A. mtliiopica^ L.,t. 561,^. fjuaclrangnlaris, Grawl. t. 

 5G7, and A. asthiopica, L., var. viUigeraj Salisb. t. 1172. 



Seeds of G. Macldnderi were procured at an elevation of 

 ten thousand feet on Mt. Kenia by Professor Mackinder, 

 of Christ Church, Oxford, during his ascent, in 1900, of 

 that remarkable mountain ; plants raised from which 

 flowered in a greenhouse in August, 1901. 



Descr. — Stem about two feet high, slender, laxly leafy. 

 Leaves narrowly linear, the lower about a foot long, and 

 one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch broad, rigid, rather 

 glaucous green, midrib stout. Spike six inches long, 

 secund, five- to six-flowered. Brads oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, the lower an inch and a half long. Perianth-tube 

 longer than the bracts, narrowly infundibular, yellow; 

 limb an inch and a half broad, scarlet ; segments broadly 

 orbicular-ovate, concave, all nearly equal, the three inner 

 rather shorter than the outer. Stamens about one-third 

 shorter than the perianth-segments, yellow ; anthers one- 

 sixth of an inch long, base and apex shortly bifid. — /. D. 11. 



Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, atigma: — all enlarged. 



