PLATE XCIX. 



GLADIOLUS BLANDUS. 



Large White-flowered Gladiolus. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDR1A MONOGYNU. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla, fexpartita, ringens. 

 Stamina adfcendentia. 



Blossom, fix divifions, gaping. 

 Chives attending. 



See Plate XI. Vol. I. Glad, roseus. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis lineari-lanceolatis, nervofis, gla- 

 bris; floribus fpicatis, fecundis, albidis, 

 maximis; laciniis tribus inferioribus ma- 

 culatis; ftigmatibus fub-bilobis. 



Gladiolus with linearly lance-fliaped, ftrongly 

 nerved, fmooth leaves; flowers grow in 

 fpikes all from one fide of the Item, white, 

 and very large; the three lower fegments 

 of the limb are fpotted; fummits nearly 

 two-lobed. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Sheaths of the Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits. 



Of all the different fpecies of fo handfome a genus, no one is more defirable than this; as the root or 

 plant is preferved with little care, and it rarely mines flowering; at the fame time that the bloflbms are 

 of long duration, and not fubjeft to injury from the weather; changing to a fine blufh colour, when 

 approaching to decay. From the Kew Catalogue we learn, that the G. Blandus was firft introduced,, 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. F. Maffon in 1774. It thrives in moft forts of earth, but fandy 

 peat feems the moft proper for this, as well as moft Cape bulbs. Our figure was taken from a plant La 

 the collection of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham, this year, the end of May. 



