Ledebour’s description of that plant, I. Hulefeldi would 
appear to be abundantly distinct. 
The treatment of I. Hulefeldi is that of I. cberica, namely, 
keeping it dry, and under glass in summer. It flowered in 
the Botanical Gardens of Cambridge in May, and in Kew 
at about the same time, and is a native of mountains near 
Suidun at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 feet. 
Drscr. Rhizome compact, as in ordinary Pogoniris, the 
new bud remaining attached to the old part of the rhizome 
by a broad base about an inch in diameter, not by a 
narrow prolonged base as in I. Korokovi, Leichtlinii and 
others of the Oncocycla group. Leaves five to six in 
a cluster, one foot or more long, and one inch or more 
broad, more or less falcate, acute, of so remarkably glaucous 
a grey green colour that the species may thereby be 
recognized from all others at present in cultivation. Scape 
about one foot high, with a bract or sheathing leaf about 
half-way up, bearing at the summit two flowers with 
spathe-valves, Spathe-valves two by five-eighths of an 
inch, pointed, subnavicular, veins obscure, pale green at 
first, finally colourless and diverging, exposing the ovary. 
Tube of perianth thick, about twice as long as the ovary, 
red-purple. Outer segments cuneate-obovate, obtuse, very 
recurved ; veins brown, or purplish on the claw, purple on 
the limb; beard long, exceeding the claw, hairs white, tips 
blue-purple, papillose. Inner segments erect, connivent, 
narrowly cuneate-spathulate, veins thickish and red- 
brown on the yellow claw, redder on the blade with blue- 
purple prolongations of a peculiar hue towards the margin. 
Anthers narrow; pollen scanty, blue, fine-grained. Style 
tall, blue-purple.—M. Foster. 
Figs. 1 and 2, Anthers; 3, top of style and stigmatic surfaces :—both enlarged. 
