PLATE CXI. 



GLADIOLUS STRIATUS. 



Streaked-flowered Gladiolus. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen- 

 dentia. 



Blossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend- 

 ing. 

 See Gladiolus roseus, Plate XI. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis lanceolato enfiformibus, fcapo 

 aequantibus; fcapo fubtrifloro, erefto; flori- 

 bus ere&is; corolla ringente, laciniis acutis, 

 undulatis, medio firiatis. 



Gladiolus with leaves between lance and fword- 

 fliaped, the length of the flower-Item; ge- 

 nerally three flowers on the item : flowers 

 grow upright; bloffom gaping,the fegments 

 pointed, waved, and ftreaked in the middle. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open with the Chives attached. 



3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, natural fize, one Summit detached, magnified. 



This fpecies of Cape Gladiolus was brought to us, from Holland, about the year 1^88; it is a very 

 hardy bulb, the flowers continuing perfe£t more than a week, and are not eafily injured either 

 by wind or rain. But the greateft merit of this plant is, that the bloffoms are only produced when 

 molt of the other fpecies of Ixiae, Gladioli, &c. have done flowering; which is generally about the end 

 of July. Before the item decays, the bulb lhould be taken from the pot, and dried. The increafe of 

 this plant is not great, as feldom more than two roots are produced from the old one. Our drawing 

 was made at the Hammerfmith nurfery, in J 799- Willdenow has a Gladiolus from Jacquin's Icon. 

 Rar. under the fpecific title here given to this, undoubtedly not the fame plant; but as our name is 

 that by which this fpecies is in general known, and by which it came from Holland, we have not 

 thought fit to alter it. 



