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than the others; stamens rather shorter than the limb; style reaching 
to the tip of the segments, 
‘Souta ArEica: Matroos Berg, 6000-7000 ft., Marloth, 2265. No specimen 
in Kew Herbarium. 
Near G. gracilis, Jacg. 
9a. Gladiolus aureus (Baker); corm small, globose; outer 
tunics of strong, pale brown, parallel strands; stem very slender, 
4-1 ft. long, clothed with fine spreading hairs, bearing 2 hairy 
leaves near the middle, the lower with a long sheath and a narrowly 
linear, strongly-ribbed, erect, free tip, the other entirely sheathing ; 
‘flowers 1-2, secund ; outer spathe-valves oblong or lanceolate, green, 
4-1 in. long ; perianth bright yellow, 11-14 in. long; tube funnel- 
shaped above the slender base, slightly curved; segments oblong, 
acute, subequal, rather shorter than the tube; filaments short; 
anthers large, linear; style much overtopping the anthers. 
Coast Reeton: Cape Div.; Foot of the Kommetjes Mountains, Cape 
Peninsula, alt. 300 ft., Bolus, 7951! 
Near G. trichonemifolius, Ker. 
_ §8a. Gladiolus Flanagani (Baker); corm not seen; produced 
leaves 3, sheathing the base of the stem, ensiform, glabrous, } ft. 
long, 3 in. broad at the middle, with thickened stramineous veins 
and margins; stem as long as the leaves, with a small leaf from the 
middle ; spike lax, secund, 3-flowered; outer spathe-valve oblong- 
lanceolate, 1} in. long, much tinged with crimson; perianth bright 
erimson ; tube curved, funnel-shaped, 1 in. long; segments oblong, 
obtuse, as long as the tube, the lower as long as the upper, not 
reflexing ; stamens and style nearly as long as the perianth-limb. 
Katanant Reoion: Basutoland; Mont aux Sources, near the summit, 
8500 ft., Flanagan, 1832! No specimen in Kew Herbarium. 
- Near @. cardinalis, Curt., and @. cruentus, T. Moore. 
62a, Gladiolus fusco-viridis (Baker); leaves 5-6 in a basal 
rosette, ensiform, bright green, strongly ribbed, the lowest 12-15 in. 
long, 1-1, in. broad at the middle; stem, including inflorescence, 
1}-2 ft. long, bearing 2 reduced leaves ; flowers 10-12 in a dense spike 
5-6 in. long; outer spathe-valves green, oblong-lanceolate, the lower 
1}-2 in. long ; perianth-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, curved, 2 in. 
long, } in. diam. at the throat; 3 upper segments oblong, acute, as 
long as the tube, with copious minute stripes of claret-brown on 
greenish ground ; 3 lower much smaller, recurved; stamens and style 
nearly as long as the concave upper segment. 
Sovrn Arnica : cultivated specimen ! : 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in July, 1896, the exact locality 
not known, 
Nearly allied to G. dracocephalus, Hook. fil. 
9a. Antholyza Steingroveri (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 156); stem 
terete, glabrous, hollow, simply leafy, a foot long; leaves narrowly 
