PLATE CCCXXXV. 
GLADIOLUS PYRAMIDATUS. 
 Pyramidal-/piked Gladiolus. 
CLASS Il. ORDER I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cororia fexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen- Bossom fix-divided, gaping. Chives afcend- 
i . = : ing. 
See Grapiozus rosgus, Pl, XI, Vol. I. 
- SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
- Gladiolus foliis enfiformibus, utrinque attenu- Gladiolus with fword-fhaped leaves, tapered to 
atis, glabris; fpathis premorfis; {picis both ends, and fmooth; fheaths appear bit- 
pyramidatis; floribus imbricatis, fubrin- ten at the ends; fpikes pyramid-fhaped; 
gentibus, _ flowers tiled, a little gaping. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, Part of a leaf. 
2. The two Valves of the Sheath. 
3. A Bloffom cut open, to thew the infertion of the Chives. 
4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summits. 
‘Tuts fine Gladiolus from the Cape of Good Hope, we believe, has not flowered, or is to be found, in 
any other colleGtion than that of the Dowager Lady De Clifford, Paddington; where our drawing 
__was taken in Auguft, this year, 1803. It grows to the height of three feet; 
oe to blow, from four to fix at a time in fucceffion, from the bafe of the fpike. 
It is a hardy bulb, and 
oe __ has every appearance of being a free blower. : 
and the flowers continue 
