PLATE CXVIII. 



GLADIOLUS GRANDIFLORUS. 



Large flowered Gladiolus. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fexpartita, ringens. 

 Stamina adfcendentia. 



Blossom, fix divifions, gaping. 

 Chives afcending. 



See Gladiolus roseus, PI. XI. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis enfiformibus nervofis ; fcapo 

 fubtrifloro, longitudine foliorum; floribus 

 erectis, maximis; laciniis corollse emargi- 

 natis, undulatis, itriatis, fub-requalibus. 



Gladiolus with sword - fhape leaves, nerved; 

 flower-ftem having moffly three flowers, 

 and of the length of the leaves ; flowers 

 grow upright, and very large; the feg- 

 ments of bloffom are notched at the ends, 

 waved, ftriped, and nearly of an equal 

 length. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 



2. The Bloffom cut open, with the Chives attached. 



3. The Pointal, and Seed bud. 



From the figures in the Collect, and Ic. rar. of Jacquin, we were led to think, this muft be the fame, 

 or a ftrong variety of his G. florabundus ; but, as his trivial name and fpecific character fo ill accord 

 with our plant, we have continued it under that, by which it was fent to England in 1/88. It 

 is a very free blowing bulb, and will live through the winter, with very little protection; flowering 

 about June or July, and does not require to be removed from the pot, to prevent its rotting. Our 

 drawing was taken in June this year, at the Hammerfmith Nurfery. 



