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SpofForth, a favorable opportunity occurs for examining them. 
There is no visible difference between the plants of the two 
former, excepting that the flower of Cunonius has the tube 
yellow, the lower lip diminished, and yellow tipt with red, the 
rest of the flower scarlet, the upper segment being concave 
and prolonged, the laterals compressed ; splendens has the 
like form, the tube and lower lip dull green, the lower 
edge of the upper laterals pale straw-colour, which is yellow 
in Cunonius. On the same stem, in one flower, the two lower 
laterals are prolonged 5-8 ths of an inch, of a pale straw- 
colour, the two upper laterals also prolonged, and the upper 
segment shortened to their usual length. Another flower has 
one of the upper laterals prolonged to the length of the upper 
segment and entirely red, and one of the lower laterals pro- 
longed 3 l6ths of an inch and straw-coloured with a little 
red. Plant’s mule has the upper segment scarlet, a little 
speckled, largest, and concave ; upper laterals similar, ex- 
panding, and sub-concave ; lower lip 7-8ths of an inch shorter, 
sub-erect, and conniving, pale straw-colour marked within 
with red having a straw-coloured middle stripe. The expan- 
sion of the upper lip and the foliage shew that it was bred as 
Mr. Plant asserts. G. abbreviatus, Bot. Rep. 166, or qua- 
drangularis Bot. Mag. 567, (Anthol. quadrang. Burm. fl. C. 
genus Petamenes, Sal.) has the upper segment large and con- 
cave, all the rest abbreviated. All the three natural sorts 
have the usual seed of the Cape Gladioli with foliaceous mar- 
gins. I have had many instances of seedlings amongst the 
mixed produce from Cardinalis, blandus, and tristis, with the 
lower lip abbreviated, sometimes only during an unfavourable 
season. Cunonius and splendens which are closely akin, and 
scarcely separable, are both stoloniferous, quadrangularis is 
not, the latter having precisely the singular leaf of G. tristis 
with four angles, the midrib being like the blade of the 
leaf. It is evident that the genera Anisanthus and Peta- 
menes cannot be supported, their distinctions depending upon 
features which are variable. — W. H. 
62. FLEUROTHALLIS peduncularis. 
P. peduncularis (§ aggregate pubescentes) ; folio elongato lanceolato piano 
basi et apice carinato, floribus aggregates, pedicellis calycibus duplo lon- 
gioribus, bractea et sepalorum basi pubescentibus, sepalis acuminatis 
liberis, petalis ovatis setaceis sepalis brevioribus, labello ovato bicarinato 
juxta apicem lineari-cuneato. 
