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pages 199 to 202. The following are from troiD-ical Africa: andongensis 

 Welw. ex Baker; angolensis Welw. ex Baker; atropurpureus Baker; 

 benguellensis Baker; brachyandrus Baker; hrevicaulis Baker; Buchanani 

 Baker; BneUneri Pax; coerulescens Baker; corneus Oliv. ; decoratus Baker; 

 Grantii Baker; gregarius Welw.; Hanningtoni Baker; kilimandscharicus 



Pax ; laxifloru s Baker; 

 liiridtis Welw.; Melleri 

 Baker; micranihus Baker; 

 multiflorus Baker; newii 

 Baker; Oatesii Rolfe; 

 paucifiorus Baker; prim- 

 uliniis Baker; Quartini- 

 anus A. Rich.; splendens 

 Baker; sulphur eus Baker; 

 TJiomsoni Baker; ungui- 

 culatiis Baker; Welwitschii 

 Baker; zamhcsiacus^aker. 

 From central Madagascar 

 are reported G. Garnieri 

 Klatt and G. luteus Lam. 

 Further study has resulted 

 in the discovery that G. 

 andongensis Welw. ex 

 Baker, G. angolensis Welw. 

 ex Baker, G. kilimand- 

 scharicus Pax, G. newii 

 Baker, G. primulinus 

 Baker, and G. Welwitschii 

 Baker, are really syn- 

 onyms of G. Quartinianus 

 A. Rich. 



Since the publication of 

 the Handbook of the Iridece 

 and the Flora Capensis, 

 a niimber of species of 

 Gladiolus from tropical 

 Africa and elsewhere have been described. Some of these have been 

 published by Mr. Baker and are therefore new species. Others have 

 been described by persons who have not made any monographic studies 

 on the genus. It is not improbable that some of them are forms of the 

 apparently very variable G. Quartinianus A. Rich or of other known 

 species. A few new specific names have appeared among the European 



Fig. 5. GLADIOiA'S LEICHTLIKII BAKER 



