PLATE CLXXXVIII. 



GLADIOLUS CAMPANULATUS. 



Bell-Jiowered Gladiolus. 



CLASS III. ORDER L 

 TRIJNDRU MONOGYNLl. Three Chives. One Pomtal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fexpartlta, ringens. 

 Stamina adlcendentia. 



Blossom fix divifions, gaping. 

 Chives afcending. 



See PL XI. Vol.1. Gladiolus roseus. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gladiolus foliis lanceolatis, nervofis, glabris; 

 fcapo fubtrifloro, foliis longior; corolla fub- 

 campanulata, palide purpurea, laciniis lub- 

 acqualibus; ftigmadbus bifidis. 



Gladiolus with lance fliaped leaves, nerved and 

 fniooth ; tlower-ftem moftly three-flowered, 

 longer ih.in the leaves; blolVom rather bell- 

 fliapcd, of a pale purple, the fegments near- 

 ly equal, with the fummits two-cleft. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Sheaths of the Empalement. 



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



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, one Summit detached and magnified. 



The Bell-flowered Gladiolus, was amongft the number of thofe imported from Holland, in the year 

 1 794, by Mefl'rs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith ; when they partook of that large collection, brought 

 to Haarlem by a Frenchman ; who had been long refident at the Cape of Good Hope, where he had 

 cultivated mofl of the bulbs prior to his bringing them to Europe. Nothing particular is required for 

 the management of this, more tlian the moft common of the Genus, fromtheCape. It flowers in May, 

 and increafes by the root ; the feeds rarely ripen. 



