Gladiolus orchidiflorus. Winged cornflag, Algoa Bay variety, Gladiolus alatus B. Native of South Africa, imported by James Charles Tate of the Nursery and Botanic Garden in Sloane Street, Chelsea, flowered at Spofforth. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by William Herbert from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1825.

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