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pd s about 7 cm. long, the claw dull or i at base 
wings a j 
reely veined, edian band slightly darker, the beg g as 
greenish-yellow midrib in the claw and e ending asal part of the 
blade where it becomes dull-yellow and i finally split apically by the dark 
blade-median w replaces it: petals magenta-purple, somewhat shorter than 
hich lace ew 
the sepals: style-branches light rose-purple, wing-margined, light-yellow; ap- 
nds dark red- ini te day pale cbe -purple beneath: anther-tips exserted: 
mps La.—Spr. 
5. I. rubea Alexander. Flower-stalks erect, stiff: sepals reflexed, about 7 cm. 
long, the claw yellow, its wings veine and streaked with orange-brown the 
median rib erat -green, the blade a dark ruby color veined eee wi E. 
triple median v of black-crimson and M flushed orange and n 
lower margin; crest ded the yellow tip of the claw-midrib, but nen pide 
by reason is many splotches and streaks of brown which cover it: petals droop- 
ing, brow Du. the lower E alf flushed and streaked brown-orange: style- 
branches brownish-ruby, their wings pink-margined: appendages brownish- indi 
above, orange-flushed beneath: anther- -tips included: capsule oval, about 
long, 6-angled.—Swamps and marshes, S La.—Spr. 
. I. rosiflora Small. Flower-stalk striet, rigid: flowers slightly den 
sepals 7-8 em. long, spreading, the claw suffused with cream- -color or pal 
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the sepal-blade: style-branches lilae-rose, the appendages the v color, lacer- 
ate-toothed: anther-tips included: capsule not seen.—Mars shes, bayous, and 
ditches, S La.—Spr. 
7. I. chlorolopha Small. Flower- kind strict: flowers not fra agrant: sepals 7—8 
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m. long, digas “spreading, the aw diu: with RE the blade of 
a lavender ground-color, Pinty y ned p lavender an ith a p 
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cluded: capsule not een.— Swamps and bayou-ban 
sunlight, the flower of this species has a decidedly ber cast. 
8. I. acleantha Small  Flower-stalk erect, stiff: sepals reflexed, about 8 cm. 
long, the claw lemon-yellow, veined yellow green, the blade a d M smoky, shade 
f pale red-violet, irregularly flushe drab, the erest greenish-lemo » apically 
split b dul wn-purple vein, a few irregular mon markings runn up 
fr claw into t : f the blade: petals smoky, ligh gray-violet, 
grayish-flushed above, lower half irregularly flushed dra ab, the lower claw pal 
olive-drab: ele ee cee mom nish-yellow, the wings yellow, the sides dull, 
moky violet-flushed; appendages light, smoky red-violet, flushed drab above 
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coarsely lacerate-toothed, below smoky-lavender wo es anther-tips 
included: capsule not seen.—Swamps and marshes ; 8 Le -—Spr. 
A Ps ae e r. e D. ei rigid: sepals E about 
claw cream gre ish, the veins and th -veins 
T) m pore with dE the FI smoky lavender-violet, th a 
