Tap. 5981. 
XIPHION tinarranoum. 
Native of Marocco. 
Nat, Ord. Tripacex.—Tribe IRIDEX 
Genus Xipuion, Tournef.; (Baker in Seem. Journ. Bot, 1871, p. 14.) 
Xiputon tingitanum ; bulbo ovoideo membranaceo-tunicato, caule firmo 
2-3-pedali flexuoso folioso 2—3-floro, foliis distichis }—3 poll. latis com- 
plicatis dorso acutis subfalcatis caulem longe superantibus, spathe 
valvis lanceolatis basin limbi attingentibus, pedicello ovario subequi- 
longo, tubo perianthii ultra ovarium 1-)4 pollicari, limbo letissime 
purpureo-violaceo, segmentis exterioribus 3-34 pollicaribus, lamina 
late ovato-rotundata erosa apice 2-fida medio disco plaga aurea notata, 
ungue subpanduriformilamina duplo longiore, interioribus spathulato- 
oblanceolatis erectis exterioribus paulo brevioribus, stigmatis crista pro- 
funde biloba segmentis interioribus equilonga et lata. 
Xiruion tingitanum, Baker in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1871, p. 13. 
Ints tingitana, Boiss. et Reut.-Pugill. Pl. Afr. Bor. et Hisp. Austr. p. 118 
(1852). 
This magnificent Iris was discovered by Salzmann in 
meadows near Tangier, in 1825, and considered by him to 
be Iris Xiphion, Lu. (Xiphion vulgare, Miller), from which it 
differs signally in the tube of the perianth being produced 
above the ovary, and in the broad leaves and much larger 
flower. It approaches much closer the 4. filifolium (Tab. 
nost. 5928), but that has also very narrow convolute leaves, 
a smaller paler flower with a deep azure border round the 
golden blotch of the outer segment. Iris Fontanesit, Godron, 
a native of Oran, in Western Algiers, is another ally of these ; 
it is referred to X. tingitanum by Mr. Baker; 1t has obi 
as large as tingitanum, and leaves intermediate im breac 
between those of that plant and X. filifolium, thus id g 
these species to a considerable extent, and ek ord "30 
as we can judge without living specimens, no very oer 
AUGuUsT Ist, 1872. 
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