PLATE CXXXVII. 



GLADIOLUS NANUS. 



Dwarf Gladiolus. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIJNDR1A MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



Cokolla fexpartita, ringens. Stamina adfcen 

 dentia. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Blossom fix divifions, gaping. Chives afcend- 



See Gladiolus koseus. Plate XI. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, plicatis, pilofis; fcapo 

 toto florigero longitudine foliorum; corolla 

 ringente, laciniis longiffimis, divaricatis, un- 

 dulatis; fpatha trivalvi. 



Gladiolus with lance-fhaped leaves, plaited and 

 hair}'; flower-ftem quitecovered with flowers 

 the length of the leaves; bloflbm gaping, 

 the fegments very long, fpreading different 

 ways and waved; fheath three valved. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The three valved Sheath. 



2. A Bloffom cut open and expanded, the Chives remaining attached. 



4. The Seed-bud, Shaft and its Summits, one of them detached and magnified. 



The Hibbertian collection has fumilhed us with this extraordinarily handfome Gladiolus. Our draw- 

 ing was taken at Clapham, in Auguft this year, when we were informed by Mr. Hibbert that he had 

 received the bulbs but a few months before, from his colleftor at the Cape. It has little likenu"-; to 

 any one of the Genus yet in England; but from the character of the leaves, we fhould incline to 

 think, the treatment required for Ixia plicata, (of which fpecies we have drawings of more than 

 twenty varieties, known under the names of I. villofa, I. rubro-cyanea, I. punicea, I. purpurea, &c. &c.) 

 that is to fay, to be kept through the winter months, in more heat than is required for the generality 

 of Ixias and Gladiolufes. 



