PLATE CXXII. 



GLADIOLUS GALEATUS. 



Helmet-flowered Gladiolus. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TR IAN DMA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fexpartita, ringens. 

 Stamina adfeendenfia. 



Blossom fix divifions, gaping. 

 Chives attending. 



See Gladiolus alatus, Vol. I. Pl.VIIJ. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis fub-ovatis, coftatis, mucronatis; 

 fpathis carianatis, tubo longioribus; lacinia 

 l'umma concava, fub-erecta. 



Gladiolus with leaves nearly egg-fhaped, ribbed, 

 and pointed at the ends; flieaths keeled, 

 and longer than the tube of- the bloflom; 

 the upper fegment concave, and almoft up- 

 right. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two flieaths of the Empalement. 



2. The Chives, with part of the tube of the Bloflbm, to which they are attached. 



3. The Pointal and feed-bud. 



We are certainly led to think with Thunberg, that this plant is not a fpecies, but a very fingular 

 and beautiful variety, of G. alatus, of which we have feen above fix or feven. Nevertheless, upon 

 the authority of Prof. Jacquin, who in his Icones 2. tab. 253, has figured it under this name fpeci- 

 fically; and as it has been continued as fuch, by the accurately difcriminating and indefatigable 

 Willdenow ; (to whofe labours, all lovers of the fcience are fo much indebted, for his invaluable, 

 and copious new Edition of the Species plantarum,) we have thought it but right to acquiefce, 

 without alteration in the name adopted by them. For the management of this plant we mutt refer 

 our readers to the G. alatus, PI. VIII. Vol. I. of this work. 



The Helmet-flowered Gladiolus was not feen in England, till the fpring of the year 1800; when 

 the roots were received at Clapham, from the Cape of Good Hope, fent by the Collector there, for 

 the Hibbertian collection, amongft an infinite number of others; many having flowered this year, of 

 which we have drawings, by pcrmifiion of the proprietor, and r.re deftined to enrich the Bot. Rep. 

 being perfectly new to this country. The figure of this plant was taken in Auguft, but the regular 

 feafon of its flowering, muft be much earlier (if planted with the other Cape bulbs in October,) that 

 is to fay, about the month of May or June. 



