distinctive characters. If to these facts be added that the — 
much damper climate of Marocco would probably favour 
breadth of leaf, it would not be surprising that all three were 
proved to be referable to one species. 
During my late visit to Marocco with Messrs. Ball and 
Maw, we first saw Zris tingitana on the dinner-table of His 
Excellency Sir J. Hay, at Tangier, where it was a most 
striking object. The specimens were from his garden, and 
we were informed that it was found wild not nearer than ten — 
miles S.W. of Tangier, near Laraisch. Thither one of our 
party (Mr. Maw) made two excursions, the first one in vain, 
but the second with success. Specimens, both from this 
source and from Sir J. Hay’s garden, were sent to Kew, 
which flowered in May of the present year. It is singular 
that Salzmann’s locality of “meadows near Tangier” should 
never have been verified by subsequent collectors, nor be 
known to residents at Tangier, who. were well acquainted 
with the plant. 
Descr. Bulb ovoid, coated with brown membranous scales. 
Stem two to three feet high, stout, firm, flexuous, leafy : 
Leaves exceeding the stem, often three-quarters of an inch 
broad at the base, tapering thence to a fine point, dis- 
tichous, complicate, keeled but hardly acute, smooth, bright 
green. Spathes lanceolate, bright green, not membranous, ex- 
ceeding the perianth-tube. Perianth four to five inches 
across, of a brilliant violet-purple; owter segment with a sub- — 
panduriform claw, traversed dorsally by a stout green midrib ; 
limb broadly ovate-orbicular, 2-toothed, serrate, disk with a 
raised oblong bright golden-yellow centre; inner segment 
oblanceolate-spathulate, erect, serrated, purple throughout. 
Crest of stigma 2-lobed, each lobe broadly semi-ovate, acuml- 
nate, serrate.—J. D. H. 
