28 VII. IRIDEA. [| Lapeyrousia 
3. L. eyanescens Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe., J.c. (nomen), in 
Trans, Linn. Soc., i.c., Handb. Irid., Lc. ; Klatt, Lc. p. 190. 
Psilosiphon eyanescens Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., /.c. 
Huiita.—Flowers milk-white, soon becoming bluish-violet, especi- 
ally on the tube and back of the lobes, very elegant and having a very 
sweet smell especially in the evening. In high boggy places near 
streams in the Serra de Oiahoia near Humpata. In fl. and fr. April 
1860, No.1553. Rocky places near Lopollo, March 1860. Cou. Carp. 61. 
4, L, fragrans Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., Jc. (nomen), in Trans. 
Linn. Soc., J.c., Handb. Irid., Jc. ; Klatt, Lc., p. 191. 
Psilosiphon fragrans Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., le. 
Hurtta.—An erect herb 1 ft. high, stem leafy from the middle, 
leaves linear, erect, coriaceous, rigidulous. Corolla white, becoming 
violet in drying, tube long, lobes campanulate, erect, linear, rather 
obtuse, peduncles rigid, widely ascending. Plentiful but rarely flower- 
ing in stony and rocky sunny places near Lopollo. In fl. in the middle 
of Dec. 1859. No. 1552. 
Scarcely separable from the last species. 
5. L. odoratissima Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., J.c. (nomen), in 
Trans, Linn. Soc., lc, p. 278, t. 36, figs. 2 & 3, Handb. Irid. 
p. 173; Klatt, Le. 
Psilosiphon odoratissima Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., dc. 
Hvuirta—An erect herb scarcely 1 ft. high, with a conical bulb, 
clothed with reddish-brown closely reticulate tunics, base broadly 
‘truncate, margin broken into fibrils, stem naked below, then distich- 
ously leaved; leaves deeply grooved, at first sheathing the flowers ; 
corolla with a long tube, lobes lanceolate, acuminate, up to time of 
opening campanulately erect ; corolla completely white, smell very 
pleasant. Plentiful in sandy rocky thickets near Lopollo. In fi. 
11 Dec. 1859. No. 1551. 
5. GLADIOLUS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 709. 
1. G. gregarius Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xvi. p. 174 
(nomen), in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i, p. 268, Handb. Trid. 
p. 210; Klatt in Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 218. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Growing caspitosely with 4 to 10 bulbs closely 
crowded; flowers milk-white, with two small violet spots on the inside 
of the lip. Plentiful in rather lofty rocky places of the Serra de 
Pedras de Guinga. In fl. Jan. and March 1857. No. 1528. 
2. G. laxiflorus Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., J.c. (nomen), in 
Trans. Linn. Soc., J.c., Handb. Irid. p. 211; Klatt, Jc, p. 219. 
Huiitia.—Flowers a very bright rose-purple. Very plentiful in 
marshy deep-grassed meadows, especially round ponds near the river 
of Lopollo. In fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 1536. 
3. G. brevicaulis Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., Jc. (nomen), in 
Trans. Linn. Soc., ic. p. 267, Handb. Irid., l.c.; Klatt, Uc. p. 244. 
Huitta.—Tunies of corm densely reticulate, stem simple, clothed 
with short long-sheathing leaves, radical leaves very narrow, appearing 
late, perianth violet-purple, three lower lobes obcuneate, discs white 
with a central deep purple lance-shaped mark. Plentiful in rather 
damp sandy short-grassed meadows and pastures, bet Lopollo and 
Humpata. In fl. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 1534. out 
