Tab. 6957. 



IRIS KlNGlANA. 

 Native of Central Himalayas. 



Nat. Ord. Ibideje. — Tribe Moe.ee.e. 



Genus Ikis, Linn.; (Bentlt. et HooJc.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 686.) 



Iris Kingiana '; rbizomate breviter repente, foliis linearibus erectis subglancis 

 semipedalibus, pedunculo brevissimo, spathis unifloris, valvis lanceolatis 

 viridibas magnis, periantbio tubo viridulo elongate, segmentis exterioribas 



obovato-cuncatis reflexis saturate lilacinis maculatis unguibus crista, depressa 

 alba filamentis copiosis albidis hiteo capitatis barbatis prrcditis, segmenf is 

 interioribus oblongis unguiculatis pallide lilaeini?, styli cristis deltoidois, 

 antheris pallide lilacinis filamento ajquilongis. 

 I. Kingiana, Foster in Card. Citron. 1887, vol. i. p. 611. 



This very interesting new species was discovered by Mr. 

 Duthie, in his recent exploration of British Garwhal, and 

 was first cultivated by Professor Foster, and named by him 

 after Dr. George King, Director of the Calcutta Botanic 

 Garden. It comes about midway between I. pumila and 

 I. tertorum, and forms a connecting link between the 

 sub-genera Pogoniris and Evansia, in the former of which 

 the claw of the outer segments is furnished with a beard, 

 and in the latter with a more or less laciniated crest. Our 

 drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the Kew 

 collection at the end of May this present year. 



Desce. Bootstoch short-creeping. Leaves five or six to 

 a rosette, three elongated, linear, erect, rather glaucous, 

 about half a foot long at the flowering time; veins and 

 edo-es hyaline. Peduncle very short. Spathes single- 

 flowered; valves lanceolate, greenish, unequal, the inner- 

 most one and a half or two inches long. Perianth-tithe 

 greenish, cylindrical, two or two and a half inches long ; 

 limb bright lilac ; outer segments obovate-cuneate, reflex - 

 ing, an inch and a half long, dark lilac, much mottled with 

 paler lilac, furnished with a beard down the claw composed 

 of white filaments with a yellow glandular tip, springing 

 from a depressed white crest; inner segments oblong- 



sept. 1st, 1887. 



