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Socotra plant, occupying an intermediate station between 

 those of the Cape and of Europe. Lapeyrousia advances into 

 Abyssinia, but has not been found further north. W. H. 



98. GLADIOLUS oppositiflorus. 

 Herbert Amaryll. p. 365. G.floribundus, errore Hortulanorum, 



G. oppositiflorus ; cormo maximo tunicis binis pallide brunneis dense paral- 

 lelo-fibrosis exteriore ad basim proxima infra medium cormum affixa, 

 tertia et quarta pallidioribiis glabcrrimis circiter et supra medium affixis, 

 foliis latis subglaucis glabris erectis, caule forti erecto multifloro ramis 

 2-3-multifloris, floribus bifariam spectantibus, tubo brevi, limbo undulato 

 subalbido rubro suffuso petalis brevioribus labio inferiore rubro vel pur- 

 pureo striato, capsula longe obovata, seminibus pallid^ brunneis foliaceo- 

 alatis. W. H. 



A native of Madagascar, where it was found by Forbes, 

 a young man employed some years since as a collector by the 

 Horticultural Society. It is also, perhaps, a native of Port 

 Natal. The seeds are very like those of Gl. natalensis in 

 form and colour, and it may be easily mixed with that species. 

 The Glad. Gandavejisis of Gardens is a cross between G. 

 oppositiflorus and natalensis ; so also is G. ramosus of the 

 Gardens, between G. oppositiflorus and cardinalis or Cardinali- 

 blandus. W. H. ' 



99. TRICHONEMA edule. Herbert. 



T. edule ; cormi 'modici edulis tunicis membranaceis nitidis badiis superne 

 setos^ apiculatis, foliis tenuibus sub-8-uncialibus, caulibus successivis 

 sub-4-unc.involucri bracteis sequalibus f-unc. perianthio purpureo-coeru- 

 lescente circiter semunciali. — TV. H. 



A native of Socotra, where it was found by Lieut. Well- 

 sted, the distinguished Arabian traveller, in vegetable earth, 

 in the small hollows of the primitive limestone rocks, and 

 on the sides of hills, two miles from the coast. The natives 

 feed upon the corms. W. II. 



100. STELIS atropurpurea. 



Hooker in Bot. Mag. i. 3975. 



This is a good figure of St. ciliaris, Lindl. in the Compa- 

 nion to the Botanical Magazine, vol. ii. p. 353., without the 

 long ciliie, which, although very conspicuous when fresh, 

 almost disappear in a dry state. 



