NO VI TATES AFRICAN AE 
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Gladiolus Guthriei, Bol. f. (§ Ev gladiolus), folio uno breviter producto, vaginis 
pilosis et summo segmento perianthii fere duplo latiore quam laterales 
bene distinguitur. 
Cormus non visus; caulis erectus, teres, glaber, 41 cm. longus (sine 
spica) ; folium basale unum, lamina erecta, ensiformi, acuta, rigida, 
plana, glabra, marginibus incrassatis, nervis subprominentibus, 6-3 cm. 
longa, 0-85 cm. lata ; folia caulina 3, p^rte libera brevissima, vaginis 
omnium foliorum inter nervos pilis longis, albis, patentibus parce 
vestitis ; spica aequilateralis, simplex, axi substricto, subtereti, glabro, 
8 cm. longo, 4 fl. ; spathae valvae oblongae, abrupte acutae, crebre 
nervosae, 1-5 — 2 cm. longae, 0-65 cm. latae, interioribus parum angus- 
tioribus et vix brevioribus ; perianthii tubus substrictus, superne in- 
fundibuliformis, 2 cm. longus, segmentis ellipticis, valde obtusis, 
purpureis, summo late elliptico apice rotundato, T9 cm. longo, T3 — 
T35 cm. lato, 2 lateralibus T45 cm. longis, 0-9 cm. latis, inferioribus 
unguiculatis, T6 cm. longis, 0-75 cm. latis, medio parum angustiore; 
stamina stylusque circa dimidium segmenti summi attingentia, antheris 
linearibus, 0-6 cm. longis ; styli ramis 0-2 cm. longis. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Bredasdorp Div., Elim, 
alt. circa 500 ft, fl. July, 1895, F. Guthrie, 3821. 
Well marked by the one shortly produced leaf, the pilose sheaths, 
and in the uppermost perianth segment being nearly twice as broad 
as the lateral. 
Described from a single dried specimen. 
Gladiolus Bolusii, Baker, var. Burchellii, Bol. f., foliis evolut.is 2 — 3,spicis ad 
16 fl., periantheo caeruleo, ceteris typicis. 
Cormus globosus, tunicis fibrosis ; caulis erectus, substrictus, teres, 
glaber, 30 — 63 cm. longus (sine spica), ad 0-5 cm. diam. ; folia basalia 
2 — 3, suberecta, subflexuosa, anguste linearia, acuta vel setaceo- 
acuminata, plana vel involuta, gracillima, nonnunquam rigida, saepis- 
sime satis subito vaginae ore angustata, glabra, 25 70 cm. longa, 
0-1 — 0-3 cm. lata, vaginis nonnunquam prominenter stria tis; folia 
caulina 1 — 2, summo ad 16-5cm. longo; spica aequilateralis vel 
secunda, simplex, axi stricto vel flexuoso, subtereti, glabro, ad -<4 cm. 
longa, 1 — 16 fl. ; spathae valvae oblongae vel lineari-oblongae, saepe 
naviculares, obtusae vel rare subacutae, multi-nervosae, exteriores 
(circa in media spica) T5 — 3-5 cm. longae, 0-5 0-9 cm. latae, inteii- 
ores breviores ; perianthii tubus superne infundibuliformis, curvatus, 
saepe apicem versus genuflexus, 0-9 — T5 cm. longus, segmentis cae 
ruleis, 3 inferioribus linea media flava e basi percursis circa dimidium 
segmentorum attingente (2 lateralibus saepe macula, transveisa, lata, 
flava circa medium, medio basin versus macula flava donato), basm 
