This species was first properly distinguished and described by the Spanish botanist Cavanilles in his Dissertatio de Sida, where he has also given a figure of it; and upon this with the Sida cristata and Dilleniana his genus Anoda was founded. Other botanists, however, have not agreed to this division, and both Professor Martyn in his Dictionary and Willdenow still consider them as Sidas of which they now enumerate 99 species; and the new species brought from Abyssinia by Lord Valentia, and published in our 117th number, completes the century. Most of the species have been destined by nature to blossom beneath a milder sky than ours; the Sida hastata was found by the French botanist Dombey growing naturally in Peru and Lima in moist places; and A. B. Lambert, esq., who favoured us with the specimen last September, received the seeds from the East Indies, The two other varieties of this enumerated by Cavanilles and Willdenow we have not seen. The plant is annual, and has yet been kept in the stove. [Illustration] PLATE DLXXXIX. GLADIOLUS ANGUSTUS, _minor_. _Small Narrow-leaved Cornflag._ CLASS III. ORDER I. _TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA sexpartita, ringens. Stamina adscendentia. BLOSSOM six divisions, gaping. Chives ascending. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. GLADIOLUS foliis linearibus, longis, costatis; corollis flavescentibus; petalis tribus inferioribus rubro notatis. Gladiolus angustus. _Jacquin. Icones, tab. 252, vol. ii._ CORNFLAG with linear leaves long and ribbed: blossom yellowish; the three lower petals marked with red. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The outer sheath of the empalement. 2. The inner sheath. 3. A blossom spread open. 4. Seed-bud and pointal. 5. Flower of a larger variety. * * * * * Our figure represents a plant from the nursery of Mr. Williams, and which we at first were inclined to regard as a distinct species from the Gladiolus angustus of Jacquin: but meeting soon after with a plant in the collection of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, of larger dimensions, (a flower of which we have represented,) its intermediate character appears, upon comparison, to connect a regular chain of variation, the smallest link of which is (at present) the one now figured. Both plants are of easy culture, requiring no other treatment than what is common to bulbs of this class. [Illustration] PLATE DXC. MESPILUS ODORATISSIMA. _Sweet-scented Mespilus._ CLASS XII. ORDER V. _ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA._ Twenty Chives. Five Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 5-fidus. Petala 5. Bacca infera, 5-sperma. CALYX 5-cleft. Petals 5. Berry below, 5-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. MESPILUS foliis utrinque pubescentibus, pinnatifidis; laciniis incisis. MESPILUS with leaves downy on both sides, and wing-cleft; with the segments slit. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.