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and dotted with red-violet the blade plum-color or nearly maroon with a ped 
eentral band, the crest dee ep-yellow with a median brown line on the low 
portion, notched i the tip, with 2-4 very broad Mi cesi yellow laterals on 
either side, each, however, Rd d by bands of brown-red, the tips of all 
laterals and the crest pin Mp pe a mee radial fete. ‘petals and style- 
branches plum-color: capsule not seen.—Swamps, S La. — Spr. —The crest of 
this T is e most aa of the a group, causing a very striking 
per 
52. I. callirhodea pir uua pe stalk erect, stiff: sepals Ee Or 
recurved-spreading, about 8 em. long, the claw greenish- yellow, its veins yellow- 
green, pe encilled with xh Dou the blade dark rose, flus hed Hle near the 
margins and prominently veined orange-brown, the crest brilBiant-yellow, three 
distinet laterals on ha side forming a large triangle which is outlined with 
red-brown, a large area around the crest heavily flushed dull-vermilion, becom- 
ing yellow at extreme base: petals salmon-pink, salmon-flushed and prominently 
veined rose-brown, the claw-wings pale orange-yellow veined rose-brown: style- 
el- re 
smoky brown-orange flushed rosy- iac and ae brown: anther-tips included: 
capsule not seen.—Swamps, marshes, and partly dried bayous, S La.—Spr. 
53. I. rhodochrysea Small. Flower-stalk erect, stiff: sepals spreading, the 
claw light orange-yellow, its wings veined red- brown, the Tu de an intense old- 
rose lilae, veined prominently with c us, the veins at the base forming 
a brown “outline to the crest, the crest a deep Prud 2 with a broad 
triangle of unmarked and inte ense o separated fro argins by a zone 
of fle hs mingled with eream , this zone ae “all eer the base . 
of the blade: petals old-rose, veined lilac, the claw flushed apricot: style- 
MN pale did- -rose, the wings flesh-eolor, notched their entire length, the 
appendages about 18 mm. long, old-rose, widely flaring: capsule not seen.— 
Ditches and marshes, S La.—Spr. 
54. DeWinkeleri Small. Flower- stalk erect, strict and rigid: sepals re- 
d s within, the elaw pale-olive, overflushed bs pinkish hee e 
brown streaks and dots, the era Pw -streak ed with rose-brown, an 
ing into the blade as dae e blade nearly light x rose- pink, D 
color is clear only on. the Mi ‘third, the inner part vily flushed ae 
1 
2 later at 
mU “ight ae oe a overlain apis sulphur, except on margin, crest and 
claw pale yellow-green: petals pale gray-pink, banded ps center a rosy 
orange-brown, claw-wings pale-yellow flushed ; without, slightly paler, the 
center band pale silvery-yellow: style-branches dull orange-rose, the wings pale- 
green at eae flushed near center with orange-pink, then becoming light old- 
rose a 2 appendages light sm o and edel vei nius 
55. I. pallidirosea Alexander. Flower-stalk erect, strict and rigid: sepals 
spreading 7—8 cm. long, the claw pale, cream y-yellow, veined darker yellow, the 
e extremely DA flushed rather irregularly with bu ue w w 
n band of buff, the crest orange-yellow, brown-orange tipped 3 
peu of light yellow forming a broad tria angu ular crest zone; e E 
same color as the sepal blade with the channel light brown- orange, the claw 
wings pale-yellow: style-branches pale-yellow faintly flushed pinkish on the 
sides; appendages anes arena irregularly toothed: anther-tips slightly ex- 
serted: capsule not seen.—Swamps and marshes, S La.—Spr. 
