Gladiolus.] _ IRIDEE (Baker), 159 
including inflorescence ; spike very lax, } ft. long, 6-8-flowered ; 
spathe-valves green, lanceolate, 13-2 in. long; perianth-tube curved, 
1-1} in. long, broadly funnel-shaped in the upper half; limb bright 
scarlet ; 3 upper segments concolorous, oblong-spathulate, acute, an 
inch broad ; 3 lower shorter, } in. broad, with a great blotch of white 
spotted with scarlet at the throat ; stamens reaching nearly to the tip 
of the segments ; anthers 3 in. long, half the length of the filaments. 
Baker in Journ, Linn. Soe. xvi. 176; Handb. Irid. 220. 
Cxentrat Reaton: Aliwal North Div.; summit of the Witte Bergen, Cooper, 
605 ! and Avoca, 4000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr. 1546! 
Katanari Reoion: Transvaal; New Scotland, MacOwan, 2253! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Krans Kop, McKen, 17! Inanda, Wood, 1216! 
Midway between G. cardinalis and psitiacinus. 
68. G. aurantiacus (Klatt in Linnea xxxv. 378); corm large, 
globose ; produced subbasal leaves 4—6, ensiform, moderately firm in 
texture, 1-1} ft. long, 4? in. broad ; stem simple, about 3 ft. long, 
inflorescence included ; spike lax, many-flowered, sometimes a foot 
long ; outer spathe-valve green, lanceolate, thin in texture, 1-2 in. 
long ; perianth bright orange-yellow or tinged with red; tube 
curved, 2 in. long, dilated suddenly at the middle, and cylindrical in 
the upper half; upper segments obovate, 1-1} in. long; 3 lower 
oblong, shorter; stamens reaching halfway up the segments. Baker 
in Journ. Linn, Soc, xvi. 176; Handb. Irid. 221. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Pietermaritzburg, 2000-3000 ft., Sutherland! 
mverton: 2400 ft., Wood, 4968! and without precise locality, Sanderson ! 
Krauss, 77! 
‘Booavd alive from Messrs. Dammann, of Naples, in July, 1886. 
69. G. alatus (Linn. Sp. Plant. edit. 2, 53); corm small, globose ; 
tunics brown, membranous; basal leaves 3-4, linear, rigid in texture, 
the lowest the longest, 3-1 ft. long, 1-3 in. broad, closely and strongly 
ribbed ; stem 3-1 ft. long including the inflorescence ; spike usually 
simple, few-flowered, very lax, with a very flexuose axis ; spathe- 
valves broad, green, oblong-navicular, the outer 1-1} in. long; 
perianth pink ; tube 3 in. long, funnel-shaped at the top; Te 
segment cucullate, obovate, cuneate, with a short claw, 1f-1 in. 
long, 3—% in. broad ; side ones shorter, suborbicular, not unguiculate ; 
3 lower deflexed, with a small obovate blade and a long distinct 
claw ; stamens reaching nearly to the tip of the upper segments ; 
anthers lanceolate, 4 in. long. Thunb. Diss. No. 15, ex parte ; Andr. 
Bot. Rep. t.8; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 586; Gen, Irid, 132; Baker, 
Handb. Irid. 223. G. speciosus, Thunb. Fl. Cap.i. 196. G. papt- 
lionaceus, Lichten. in Roem, et Schult, Syst. Veg. i. 408. Hebea 
galeata, Eckl. Top. Verz. 41, 
Vaz. 8, G. namaquensis fee: lad eae 2 t. rug Bests robust, gar a 
i 2 in. ’ wers, and upper perianth-segments 
a acai mee Trid. 182. G@. sethiin; Thunb. Fl. Cap. 192. 
G. galeatus, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 122. 
Sour Argica: without locality, Pappe! Thom! Var. B, Thunberg! 
Coast Rreion : Cape Flats near Duiker Viey, below 100 ft., MacO:can, 2268 ! 
