PLATE CXXXVII 



GLAD 



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NANUS. 



Dwarf Gladiolus. 



CLASS 



IIL 



ORDER 



I. 



TRIJNDRIA MONOGYNU. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fexpartlta^ ringens. Stamina adfcen- 

 dentia. 



I 



Blossom fix divifionSj gaping. Chives afcend- 

 ing. 

 See Gladiolus roseus. Plate XL Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, plicatis, pllofis j fcapo 

 toto florigero longitudine foliorum; corolla 

 ringente,laciniis longiffimis, divarlcatis, un- 

 dulatisj Ipatha trivalvi. 



Gladiolus with lance-fhaped leaves, plaited and 

 haiiy; flower-ftem quite covered with flowers 

 the length of the leaves j bloffom gaping, 

 the fegments very long, fpreading different 

 ways and wavedj Iheath three valved. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The three valved Sheath. 



2. A BloflTom cut open and expanded, the Chives remaining attached 



4. 



Seed 



one of them detached and magnified 



V. 



Hibbertian 



Our draw- 



Mr 



received the bnlbs but a few months before, from his colleaor at the Cape. It has little likenefs to 

 any one of the Genus yet in England: but from the character of the leaves, we fhould incline to 



treatment required for Ixia plicata, (of 



under the names of I. viUofa. I. rubro 



than 



that is to fay, to be kept through the winter months^ in^more heat than is required for the generality 



Gladiolufes 



