Tab. 6960. 

 IRIS Sari, var. lurida. 



Native of Asia Minor. 



Nat. Ord. Ibidem. — Tribe Moe-EEJ::. 

 Genus Ibis, Linn.; {Benth. et Rook.f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 686.) 



Ibis (Oncocyclus) Sari,\a.r. lurida; rhizoniate brevi obliquo, foliis ensiformibus 

 faleatis glancescentibus semipedalibus, pednnctilo tnonoceplialo foliis Bqnilonso, 

 spatha- valvis Ianceolatis Tentricocu pallide viridibus, periutithio tubo bi- 

 pollicari, limbi segmentis orbicularibus oopiositsime fusco-punctatis, ezterioriboi 

 reflexis diffuse barbatis, interioribus erectis, styli appendicibus Im'vibus rotun- 

 datis. 



I. Sari, var. lurida, Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. v. p. 131. 



This curious new Iris belongs to the small section 

 Oncocyclus, and is closely allied to the well-known I. susiana 

 (Bot. Mag., tab. 91). Our drawing was made from a 

 specimen sent by Mr. R. I. Lynch, of the Cambridge 

 Botanic Garden, with whom it flowered last May. We 

 have also had it this summer in the herbaceous ground at 

 Kew, received from Professor Foster. The species was 

 originally described in my synopsis of the genus Iris, 

 published in the " Gardener's Chronicle" in the year 1876 

 (vol. v. p. 788), from material furnished by Max Leichtlin. 



Descr. Rhizome short, oblique. Leaves about six, ensi- 

 form, falcate, glaucescent, half a foot long at the flowering 

 time, half an inch broad. Peduncle monocephalous, half 

 a foot long ; spathe-valves lanceolate, ventricose, pale green. 

 Perianth-tube two inches long; segments of the limb 

 suborbicular, two and a half or three inches long, copiously 

 striped and spotted with claret-purple on a claret-white 

 ground ; outer segments reflexed, darker in colour, furnished 

 with a diffused brown -black beard ; inner segments paler, 

 erect. Filaments shorter than the anthers. Style dark 

 brown, an inch broad, furnished with two short quadrate 

 appendages. — J. G. Baker. 



Fi"-. 1, Part view of stamen; 2, back view; 3, style with appendages: — ail 

 more or less enlarnrf. 

 OCT. 1st, 1887. 



