Tap. 6489. 
XIPHION KoLPAKOWSKIANUM. 
Native of Turkestan. 
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Nat. Ord. Intpacex.—Tribe X1IPHionipex. 
Genus Xrpnion, Tournef.; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xvi. p- 122). 
Xipuion Kolpakowskianum ; bulbo globoso, tunicis exterioribus fibrosis fibris 
validis irregulariter anastomosantibus, foliis paucis anguste linearibus pallide 
viridibus profunde canaliculatis albo-vittatis post anthesin accrescentibus, scapo 
brevissimo hypogzo unifloro, spatha elongata cylindrica pallide viridi bivalvi, 
ovario cylindrico pedicellato, tubo cylindrico bipollicari pallide lilacino, limbi 
segmentis zequilongis, exterioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis longe unguiculatis, 
lamina flore expanso patula saturate lilacino-~purpurea, carina aurantiaca 
imberbi, segmentis interioribus oblanceolatis unguiculatis erectis pallide lilacinis 
concoloribus, stylis perianthio paulo brevioribus pallide lilacinis, cristis lanceo- 
latis, antheris albis, filamentis liberis. 
Tris (Xiphion) Kolpakowskiana, Regel Descript. part v. p. 47; Garten/l. vol. xxvii. 
(1878), p. 40 and 161, tab. 939. 
This ig one of the many interesting bulbous plants which 
have been discovered during the last few years by the 
Russian explorers in Central Asia, and which have been 
sent alive to St. Petersburg by the exertions of Dr. Albert 
Regel, and liberally distributed by his father amongst the 
Kuropean public gardens and amateurs. The present 
plant is a close ally of the well-known Xiphion reticulatum 
of the Orient and the Caucasus, of which a good figure 
under the name of Iris reticulata will be found Bot. Mag. 
Tab. 5577. The principal difference between the two is 
not in the flower, but in the bulb and leaves. It flowers at 
the same time, and has something of the same violet odour, 
and in all likelihood will prove equally hardy. It grows 
plentifully in fields near Wernoje, in Turkestan, and was 
named by Dr. Regel in compliment to General Von Kol- 
pakowsky. Our plate was made from specimens and a 
coloured sketch sent by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, with whom 
it flowered under glass in the botanic garden at Trinity 
APRIL Ist, 1880. 
