By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esa. 32S 



was suggested many years ago by my learned friend M. Cor- 

 rea de Serres, who first taught us all, that both regular 

 and irregular flowers might occur upon the same spike, in 

 some species of this genus. 



Acaste Pulchra. MSS. Babiana! stricta a. KerinBot. 

 Mag. n. 637. cum. Ic. 



If this species is indulged with the front flue of a stove for 

 about two months, it will flower and ripen seeds in great 

 perfection : in a colder situation, sometimes, only one, or at 

 most two, ofits flowers expand. 



Anomaza Excisa. Laws. Cat. p. 2. Gladiolus polystachius. 

 Kenn. in Bot. Rep. n. 66. cum Ic. Anomatheca juncea. Ker in 

 Ann. Bot v. 1. p. 227- Lapeyrousia juncea. Ker in Bot. Mag. 

 n. 606. cum Ic. Ixia excisa. Linn. Suppl. p. 92. 



I received bulbs of this plant from the Cape of Good Hope 

 in 1789, an off-set from which, being afterwards sent by me to 

 the Dowager Duchess of Portl and, it was first figured from 

 her Grace's plant, in the Botanist's Repository. It is so hardy 

 as to live through a mild winter here in the open air, en- 

 creasing plentifully both by off-sets and seeds. 



Watsonia Fulgtda. MSS. Watsonia Iridifolia (3. Ker in 

 Bot. Mag. n. 600. cum Ic. Antholyza fulgens. Kenn. in Bot. 

 Rep. n. 192. cum Ic. 



All the taller species of this numerous genus require large 

 pots, without which they seldom flower in perfection, and 

 they must be deluged with water for two months before the 

 peduncle shoots up, after which they require less, and none 

 at all after their leaves are decayed. I suspect that many of 

 them grow wild in situations which are under water in winter ; 

 and a little fresh loam, mixed with peat and sand, suits them 



