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P L A T E XCIX.
G L A D I O L U S BLANDUS.
Large White-flowe^'ed Gladiolus.
C L A S S IIL ORDER I.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Tlii-ee Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
C O R O L L A , fexpartita, ringens.
STAMINA adicendentia.
Gladiolus foliis lineari-lanceolatis, nen'ofis, glabris}
floribus Ipicatis, fecundis, albidis,
maximis; laciniis tribus inferioribus maculatisi
ftigmatibus fub-bilobis.
BLOSSOM, lix divifions, gaping.
C H I V E S afcending.
See Plate XI. Vol. I. GLAD, EOSEUS.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gladiolus with linearly lance-fliaped, ftrcngly
nerved, fmooth leaves; flowers grow in
Ipikes all from one fide of the ftem, white,,
and very large; the three lower fegments
of the limb are fpotted; fummits nearly
two-lobed.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Sheaths of tlie Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits.
OF all the different fpecies of fo handfome a genus, no one is more defirable than this; as the root or
plant is prefervedwitli little care, and it rarely miffes flowering; at the fame time that thebloflbms are
of long duration, and not fubjeft to injury from the weather; changing to a fine bluih colour, when
approaching to decay. From the Kew Catalogue we learn, that the G. Blandus was firft introduced,
from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. F. Maflbn in 1774. It thrives in moft forts of earth, but fandy
peat feems the moft proper for this, as well as moft Cape bulbs. Our figure was taken from a plant inthe
colleaion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham, this year, the end of May.
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