Iris.) CLI. IRIDEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 215 
style-arms $in. ; crests large, deltoid, acute. Capsule exactly as in I. nepalensis, of 
Which this may be a variety, but the sepals are strongly bearded. 
. 1. 1. Duthieii, Foster in Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 611; dwarf, leaves 
linear, flower-heads solitary, spathes 1-fld., perianth-tube very long, blade 
of spreading sepals cuneate-obovate gradually narrowing into the bearded 
lav, petals oblong obovate red lilac, 
ESTERN HIMALAYA; Kumaon, Duthie (Hort. Foster). . : 
ems to differ from J, kumaonensis, of which it is probably a variety, in the 
reddish lilac flowers, with darker veins. Capsule 1} by 1 in., trigonous. As in 
umaonensis the flowering precedes the mature leafing. 
l 5 ag Hookeriana, Foster in Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 611; dwarf, 
Zi linear, flower-head solitary, spathes three 2-fld., persistent perianth- 
be short, blade of sepals obovate-cuneate gradually narrowing into the 
“iy bearded claw, blade of erect petals narrowly obovate, capsule 
sma ak ME beaked. 
TERN HIMALAYA; Lahul (Hort. Foster). . 
4h 5-6 in., sheaths torn. Ge Zoe A at the flowering season, at length 
ge iL, pale green. Spathes about 5 in. long; valves lanceolate, ventricose. 
weaith-tube } in. limb 13-2 in.; blade of sepals cuneate-obovate, 7 in. broad, 
Phrplish blue blotehed with darker; claw white with violet veins, hairs of bear 
Vo Yellow-tipped ; blade of petals } in. broad, suddenly narrowed into the £ an- 
claw ; style-arms very convex dorsally, crests revolute deltoid, coarsely ser- 
Capsule oblong, 
H Stem 1 ft. or more. 
cathy Clarkei k 88. ; all stout, leaves linear or ensiform 
Zeie _Striate, Hlower-heale ge 1-9-fld., valves green to the 
bd Pedicels nearly equalling the spathe, perianth-tube short infundibu lar, 
small of sepals oblong-cuneate with a bearded erect claw, blade of pe 
cblong, claw long, capsule oblong obtuse at both ends. 
Sikkry HrwaravyA 
, alt. 10-11,500 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. i iti 
W otstock very stout, creeping, sheaths long, fibrous. Stem 10-24 eebe 
d Stout, 2-leaved, Leaves not membranous at the tips, at length Lë: h lias 
i m. Spathes 23-3 in., valves lanceolate, persistent. Perianth bright lila 
lotched wA es 23 , le, pe in.; blade of sepals $ in. 
broa ith violet, throat yellow; tube j in.; limb 2 in.; 1.9 in., oblon 
igono o earms 1 in. long, bright lilac, crests square. Capsule 13- ry variable, 
VI ous, yalves thick, rigid, keeled at the back.—The leaves are very variable, 
and din, broad in small fld. specimens. 
LOUBTFUL SPECIES. . 
o of the following, except I. longifolia, all are supposed to be either garden plants 
attenti lly garden escapes, and probably identical with Persian species. 
I nof Indian botanists should be given to them. ` Req, 1840 
Nise. pp EXA, Knowles and, Westec. Flor. Cab. ii. 19, t. 57 (Lindl. Bot. Së var. 
nepal 5, 34; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1876, ii. 774 (in part). I. german lant of 
the Fic Herb. in Bot, Reg. l. c. 34. Baker, who characterizes the P sit to 
inte ral Cabinet, by the scarious tips of the spathes and deflexed stem, consi ers the 
al Tmediate between germanica and pallida, but as he has included unde iew is 
ensis of Royle & Wallich, some of which are certainly different, his wie the 
dech Not correct, Herbert, who cultivated authentic specimens, ^f. "ermanica 
and is 7 Stem ps due to its being grown in heat, and that it is a var. of g ? 
; -nepa 513, Wall. in Bot. Reg. t. 818. . K n) 
Dig, ASHMIRIAXA, Baker in Gard, Chron. 1877, ii. 744 (Kashmir to re white 
wéi According to Baker, from J. florentina, in the sweet-scented pere white 
stigmas m the spathe-valves scarious at the tips only, and the pure m 
Wo-thirds as long as the perianth with large crests. 
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