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without, dull-plum, overlain light, silvery-green on crest and claw, the claw 
also speckled purple: petals somewhat paler than the sepals, p i 
cream near the base: style-branches and appen dages about the same magen 
as the petals, the wings paling to the margin, the body white a the base on 
both sides: anther-tips exserted: Capsule not seen.—Swamps and marshes, 
S La.—Spr. 
21. I. Meroe. Small. a shee cid erect: sepals spreading or re 
m the elaw greenish-yellow veined bro and flushed and splotehed xd. 
brown, deep- PN, fiushings at its e r aoe, d into the base of the blade 
heavily veined brown-purple, the blade red-violet or vinaceous, flecked with 
violet and with purplish-brown veins, the erest greenish-yellow or nid lagen 
pcre tipped, eventually becoming a red-violet streak with a red-v eye 
around the blackish tip: eae red- violet, flushed bluish-lilae in the med an 
part: style- a light brown-lilac, becoming cream on the mar capsule 
seen.—Mar , ditches, and bayous, S La.—Spr.—This may Bie. upon 
Me study, - E m than one y 
22. I. dec cs Small. Se es erect and stiff, slender: sepals re- 
flexed, about 8 cm. long, the claw orange-cream, veined yellow-green, the veins 
and those of ilia: wings pencilled with rose-brown, the blade dull rose heavily 
and prominently veined rose-brown, flushed down the center 2 and all over 
lower third with brown-orange, the Sy E -green, solitary, t rown veins 
coming so close ied bis nd it as to make a dark central D petals light 
old-rose, veined in channel with dm ae [ue er half rose-orange veined and 
ushed rose: vi a dull old-rose, flushed dull pinkish-orange on the 
E the keel dark old-rose, the appendages E -rose, slightly flushed orange- 
: anther-tips included: capsule not seen.—Swamps and marshes, S La.—Spr. 
23. I. crocinubia Alexander.  Flower-stalk erect, stiff and slender: sepals 
recurved, about 6 em. long, the elaw dull orange-green-veined at the base, veins 
above elouded over with orange and vein-peneilled rose-brown, the bi ade smoky 
ponit old-rose on outer third, but entire lower two-thirds so prie pees d 
ver and flushed ipis ee orange as to almost eompletely obseure its color, some 
of these cloudings end nearly to the apex, the crest solitary, Du d 
p ene outlined ith red-viol ds petals smoky gray-pink, clouded and flushed 
n the lower thir brown-orange: inn -branches dull purplish-rose on the 
keel, the body flushed brown-orange, the wings dull pale-orange; appendages 
purplish old-rose, dun iUe anther-tips ineluded: eapsule not seen.— 
Swamps and marshes, S La.—Spr. 
. I. miraculosa Small. Flower- s vita, strict: ph ped bade Qa 
sepals 10—12.5 cm. long, recurved-spre , the claw 
green, the blade elliptic, oval, or ee e, la vender or pex ue he prominent 
i w: petals sp a shorte 
than the sepals, white or n beyond the poser inged base: style- 
branches greenish- -white, the wings white, faintly flushed pale-lavender; ap- 
pendages lavender, shallowly lacerato: toothed: anther-tips included: capsule 
oval, ais id, or obovoid, 6.5-9 cm. long, 6-lobed.—Swamps and ditches, S La. 
—Spr 
25. I. pol ees Small. n stalk rigid, strict: flowers fragrant: sepals 
7.5-9.5 € oe ng, spreading or recurved-spreading, the claw suffused with yel- 
lowish- oe and with often whitish margins, the bla de oaar. oval or orbicu- 
lar-ovate, dark violet-blue, the narrow crest yellow: petals broadly o 
somewhat shorter than the sepa als, the cuneate claw M than the blade, 
greenish at the base, m with "red-violet above, the bla o is blue 
and often with dark lines at the base: style-bra nehes red- pa. appendages 
irregularly lacerate pre d: eapsule ellipsoid or nearly so, 8-10 em. long, 
6-lobed.—Swamps, ditches, and bayou-banks, S La.—Spr. 
