130 GLADIOLUS ILLYRICUS AND ITS ALLIES. 
ee early in a frame before they are transplanted eis - Pons 
pois carefully —Ó all the evidence, I think there caii be mo 
doubt of Mr. Markham's plant being 7. Heyneanum, of which the fol- 
lowing is a brief diagnosis :— 
TROPÆOLUM Heyneanum (Tab. V.); annuum, scandens, sparse pilo- 
‘sum ; foliis peltatis, 3—5-lobis, lobis oblongis integerrimis vel lobula- 
tis, mucronatis; stipulis bracteisque nullis, pedunculis 1-floris folium 
multo superantibus, calcare basi attenuato leviter deorsum curvato ; 
petalis 5 (omnibus aurantiacis), unguiculatis, flabellato-spathulatis. in- 
ciso-multifidis, laciniis petalorum duorum superiorum obtusiusculis, i in- 
feriorum 3 subulatis; staminibus liberis; autheris rotundatis (viridi- 
bus) ; stylo 3-fido, laciniis 2 brevioribus (v. s. sp. comm. clar. Markham). 
Tropzolum Heyneanum, Bernhan di, in Thüringer Gartenzeitung, pro 
1843, p. 73; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 820 ; Ed. Otto, Hamb. Gartenzeitung, 
1859, p. 218; Biedenfeld, in Otto und Dietr. Allg. — xiii. 
p. 108; Tab. nostr. n 
Groc. Distr. Aréquigl in maize-fields (Markham I), Gardens at 
Lima (Miers), irrigated fields about Huanuco (Biedenfeld). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 
Tropeolum cg pce Bernh., from specimens collected by Mr. Markham about 
Arequipa.—Fig. 1. One of the ek petals. 2, One of the upper petals.. 8. Pistil: 
—all magnified 
REMARKS ON GLADIOLUS ILLYRICUS, Koch, AND. TIS 
i ALLIES. 
Bx J. T. Boswett Syme, Eso., F.L.S. ee 
On the 28th of June, 1858, T went to Lyndhurst in search of the 
. Gladiolus, the discovery of which had been announced in the * Annals 
of Natural History? for August, 1857. On arriving there I inqui 
for the Boldrewood Road, and without much difficulty found the station 
recorded for the Gladiolus in that locality. The best way of finding 
the plant is to stoop down and look through between the leaf-stalks 
underneath the fronds of the Pteris aquilina, when, if the Gladiolus 
be in flower, the crimson spikes may be discerned at a considerable 
distance, Having seen the plant growing, I am in a position to CoB 
