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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



better than poorer soil. As they are exceedingly ornamental 

 plants and none of them very tender, I wish some of our 

 members would tr\^ them in front of their stoves, in the way 

 Messrs. Malcolms cultivate many bulbs at Kensington. 



Antholyza Floribunda. MSS. Antholyza iEthiopica. 

 Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 561. cum Ic. — Kenn. in Bot. Rep. n. 



210. CU771 Ic. 



This beautiful plant has lived in the open air several 

 years, near the front of the little hospital stove, in the royal 

 gardens at Kew, where many of us saw it with both flowers, 

 and frnit nearly ripe, on the same stalk, last June : it will not 

 flower in a pot, unless that is very large ; and while the leaves 

 are green, it should have plenty of water. 



Antholyza Vittigera. MSS. Antholyza iEthiopica jS. 

 Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 1172. cum Ic. Antholyza ringens. Kenn. 

 in Bot. Rep. n. 32. cum Ic. Gladiolus iEthiopicus. Cornut. 

 PL Can. p. 78. cum Ic. 



Three very distinct species, if not four, being confounded 

 under the absurd name of Mthiopica, for they all grow wild 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, it is best to get rid of it alto- 

 gether. This is much more tender than the former, at least I 

 could never make it flower but in the stove. The bulb of 

 this species being very flat, the lower buds are placed appa- 

 rently underneath it, the shoots from which come out of the 

 earth almost horizontally. I first saw it thirty-four years ago, 

 in the botanic garden of the Dowager Lady de Clifford, 

 at King's Weston, near Bristol. 



Petamenes Quadra ngularis. MSS. Gladiolus Quad- 

 rangularis. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 567. cum Ic. Gladiolus abbre- 

 viate. Kenn. in Bot. Rep. n. 106. cum Ic. 



