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B. Segments of outer corona deeply 3-lobed. 
a. The middle lobe shorter than the lateral lobes, 
entire 4. T. simile, N.E.Br. 
h. The middle lobe broader than and nearly as long 
as the lateral lobes, bifid 5. T. ;)ictim, N.E.Br, 
* This species appears to be very similar to, or identical with, one from Great 
Namaqualand, described by Berger as T. Dinteri (Stapelien und Kleinien, p. 30, 1910). 
There is another species of this group mentioned in the same book, viz., T. pedicellatum 
Schinz, but without a description of the corona. 
IKIDACE^. 
Gladiolus Florenti^, spec. nov. 
Planta acaulis. Cormus globosus, fibris mollis obtectus. Folia 2-3, 
subsecunda, breviter-lanceolata, striata, glabra. Eacemus pauciflorus, 
subsessilis. Flores 2-5, lutei, spathis viridibus, segraentis subaequalibus. 
This pretty little plant resembles in its foliage almost a Babiana, but 
the leaves are neither plicate nor hairy. The flowers are nearly 2 in. long 
and 1 in. wide at the mouth, of a deep golden yellow, otherwise oi the 
typical structure of Eu-Gladiolus. 
Frequent in stony ground of the Karroo near the Great Tygerberg 
in the district of Prince Albert. Flowering in May, 1907. Marloth, 
No. 4452. 
