Gladiolus.] 1e1pex (Baker), 155 
than halfway up the limb. Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 625; Gen. Irid, 140; 
Baker, Handb. rid. 217. G. angustus, Linn. herb. ex parte / 
Var. 8, G. albidus (Jacq. Ic. t, 256); flower pure white. @. blandus, Andr. 
Bot. Rep. t. 99. G. blandus, var. niveus, Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 648. 
Vax. y, G. Mortonius (Herb. in Bot. Mag. t. 3680) ; flowers suberect ; segments 
white, with copious, faint, vertical, pink streaks. 
Var. 5, G. excelsus (Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 501); taller than the type, 
with longer leaves and a perianth-tube 2 in. long. 
Vag. e, G. carneus (Delaroche, Descr. 30, t. 4) ; more robust than the type, with 
more numerous, more spreading pink flowers, with broader, less acute segments. 
» a tceeteaece Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 188. G. blandus, var., Ker in Bot. Mag. 
t. 645. 
Var. Hibbertti, Hort., has pink flowers with very distinct, red, spade-shaped 
marks on the three lower segments. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Thwnberg! Oldenburg! Forster! Zeyher, 
3980! Harvey, 918! Var. y, Harvey, 899! Var. «, from Hesse’s garden at Cape 
Town, Burchell ! : 
Coast Rreion: Devils Mountain, 8736! Dutoits Kloof, Drége, 8426b! 
Var. 5, Paarl Mountains, under 100 ft., Drége! Var. ¢, Tulbagh Div. ; Mosterts 
Berg, 1700 ft., Bolus, 5255! British Kaffraria, MacOwan, 1467! near Grahams- 
town, Baur, 1100! : 
55. G. Milleri (Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 632); corm globose, middle- 
sized ; tunics of parallel strands of matted fibres; stem simple, 
1-1} ft. long; produced basal leaves about 4, ensiform, shorter than 
the stem, 4—? in. broad ; flowers 4-5, suberect in a very lax spike: 
outer spathe-valves oblong-lanceolate, moderately firm in texture, 
13 in. long; perianth milk-white; tube straight, erect, 14-2 in. 
long ; segments oblong, subacute, the upper one the broadest, 3— in. 
broad at the middle; stamens reaching 4-3-way up the limb. 
Gen. Irid. 148; Baker, Handb, Irid. 218. Antholyza spicata, 
Miller, Gard. Dict. edit, 8, No. 2 (Ic. 27, t. 40). 
Coast Reaion: Port Elizabeth, Cult. Harpur-Crewe ! 
Close upon G. blandus and floribundus, 
56. G. undulatus (Jacq. Ic. t. 251); corm globose; tunics of 
parallel strands of fine matted fibres ; produced basal leaves 4-6, 
ensiform, firm in texture, glabrous, 3-1 ft. long, }—{ in. broad ; stem 
simple, 1 ft. long including the spike ; flowers 4—6 in a very lax 
spike with a flexuose rachis, all suberect ; outer spathe-valve green, 
oblong-lanceolate, 1-14 in. long; perianth-tube nearly straight, 
12 in. long; segments as long as the tube, oblong-spathulate, sub- 
acute, milk-white with a red keel, 3-3 in. broad ; stamens reaching 
more than halfway up the limb. Red. Lil, ¢. 122 ; Ker in Bot. Mag. 
t, 647; Gen. Irid. 142; Baker, Handb, Irid. 218. G. angustus, 
Herd. Linn. ex parte. G. vittatus, Zuccagn. in Roem. Coll, 121. 
: without locality, Thunberg! Bowie! ‘ 
Coase Peat Vitenhage Div, ies! Bathurst Div.; between Riet 
Fontein and the sea-shore, Burchell, 4081! 
57. G. Macowani (Baker, Handb. Irid. 219); corm not seen ; stem 
2-3 ft. long; produced leaves ensiform, more rigid in texture than 
