Gladiolus.] IRIDEZ (Baker), 143 
Coast Reeion: British Kaffraria, Cooper, 458 ! 
EastERN REGION + Natal; bank of Mooi River, Wood ! 
18. G. Lambda (Klatt in Linnea xxxii.708); corm globose; 
tunics thick, with obscure areola ; stem a foot long; leaves super- 
posed, long-sheathing, terete, 4 lin. diam., the lowest much over- 
topping the. stem; flowers 2, secund; spathe-valves unequal, 
obovate, purple at the base and tip, the outer # in. long; perianth 
white, an inch long; tube curved, as long as the spathe ; upper 
segments concolorous, subequal, ovate-lanceolate ; lower narrower, 
with two purple blotches at the base; filaments as long as the 
anthers, Baker, Handb. Trid, 204. 
South Argica: without locality, Reynaud (Berlin Herbarium). 
14, G. rachidiflorus (Klatt, Ergiinz. 5); stem forked, 2 ft. long; 
leaves narrow linear, the lower nearly 2 ft. long, 1-6 in. broad; 
flowers in a dense spike more than 3 ft. long; outer spathe-valve 
ovate, acute, inner toothed at the tip; perianth reddish, tube } in, 
long; segments ovate, acute, subequal, under 3 in. long; fila- 
ments twice as long as the anthers, Baker, Handb. Irid. 205. 
Eastern Recion: Port Natal, around the bay, Drége, 4537 ! 
I have not seen this, and suspect it may belong to Tritonia, to which genus it 
is referred in Drdge’s catalogue. 
15. G@. microphyllus (Baker, Handb. Irid. 206); corm small, 
globose ; tunics of parallel strands of fibres, prolonged at the top 
into bristles ; root-leaves narrow linear, rigid, 4-5 in, long; stem 
6-8 in. long, with about 4 glabrous sheaths with short, free, linear 
tips; spike subsecund, lax, 2-4 in. long; outer spathe-valves 
oblong, 4-3 in. long; perianth-tube shorter than the spathe; seg- 
ments obovate, obtuse, pale red, 4-3 in. long; stamens nearly as 
long as the segments. 
Eastern Reoaioy: Griqualand East; Zuurberg Range, near Kokstad, 
5500 ft., Tyson, 1852! 
16. G. brevifolius (Jacq. Ic. t. 249); corm globose; tunics of 
parallel strands of fine matted fibres; leaf linear, firm in texture, 
glabrous, 14-2 ft. long, produced separately from the flowering 
stem ; flowering stem simple, very slender, 1-2 ft. long, with about 
3 superposed leaves with long glabrous sheaths and short, free, linear 
points; flowers 4-12, in a lax secund spike, horizontal, pink or 
lilae ; outer spathe-valve green, lanceolate, }~} in. long; perianth- 
tube curved, $ in. long, broadly funnel-shaped in the upper half ; 
limb about as long as the tube; upper segments obovate, 3 in. 
broad; lower oblong-unguiculate, — with purplish, spade-shaped 
marks at the throat; stamens reaching more than halfway up the 
limb; capsule oblong, } in. long. Thunb. Fi. Cap. i. 17 7; Ker, 
Gen. Irid, 134; Baker, Handb. Irid, 206. G. aphyllus, Ker, Gen. 
Trid. 134. G. carneus, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 240, non Delaroche. 
G. Orobanché, Red. Lil. t, 125. G. hirsutus, vars. aphylius and 
