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GLADIOLUS ORCHIDIFLORUS. 
Orchis-like-Jlowered Gladiolus. 
CLASS III. ORDER I. 
TRIJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
Corolla fexpartita, rir 
Stamina adfcendentia. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Blossom fixdivifions, gapin] 
Chives afcending. 
See Gladi 
ROSEUS, Pl.IL Vol.I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
GladioJus foUis linearibus; fcapo polyftachio; 
floribus fpicatis, fecundisj laciniis binis 
lateralibus corollae latiffimis, fumma ereda, 
tribus inferioribus dependentibus, macu- 
latis. 
Gladiolus with linear leaves j fiower-llem branch¬ 
ed; flowers grow in fpikes, all from one 
fide; the two fide fegraents of the bloffom 
are very broad, the top one upright, the 
three lower hang down, and are fpotted.. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two valves of the flieath, 
2. A Bloffom fpread open, with the Chives in their place. 
3. The Pointal, one of the divifions of the fummit magnified. 
As a fingularityaroong its fellows, this Gladiolus fiands prominently diftind; and the uncommon and 
curious formation of its flowers will, undoubtedly, counterbalance, in the eye of the botanift, what they 
want in brilliancy of colour. It is a hardy bulb, and appears to require only the ufual treatment of 
the hardier fpecies of the genus. The Clapham colledion is, we befieve, the only one in which it is to 
br found in England; to which it was introduced, by Mr. Niven, in-the fpring of the year 1801, and 
where our drawing was made, this prefent year, in the month of March 1802. 
