Tab. 5847. 

 iris iberica. 



Iberian Iris. 



Nat. Ord. Iridej:. — Triandria Trigtnia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5298.) 



Iris (Oncocyclus) ib erica ; caule brevi 1-floro, foliis conduplicatis lineari- 

 ensiformibus recurvis, spathae diphyllae foliolis subherbaceis acuminatis 

 perianthii tubum subaequantibus, perianthii laciniis subaqualibua amplis 

 subrotundatis obtusis, interioribus abrupte deflexis coriaceis coloratis 

 marginibus recurvis, exterioribus erectis albis margine subundulatis, 

 stigmatibus defiexis obovato-oblongis 2-fidis lobis brevibua recurvis 

 dentatis. 



Iris iberica, Hoffm. in Coram.. Soc. Phys. Mosc. i. p. 41. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 

 4. p. 105. M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. v. i. p. 30. Regel Gartenfi. v. 

 12, p. 3, t. 386, f. i. 2. 



Oncocyclus ibericus, Siemssen ; Klatt. in Linncsa v. 34, p. 580. 



A more singular looking plant than the subject of this 

 plate seldom falls under observation in a living state, its 

 dwarf habit, gigantic flower, great snow-white erect outer 

 perianth leaves, the equally large strangely coloured inner 

 perianth, and the deflexed stigmas with shining black purple 

 humped bases, the two latter organs resembling some great 

 insect, make up a flower of singular oddity and beauty 

 too. We have referred it to the Iris iberica of Hoffman, with 

 dried specimens of which it entirely agrees. It differs, how- 

 ever, from the plant figured by Dr. Eegel in the Gartenflora 

 under this name, in the obtuseness and colour of the inner 

 perianth-segments, which are represented as ochreous-brown, 

 and as wanting the polished almost black disk and marbled 

 edges of our plant ; the colour of these organs is however 

 described as being excessively variable, and as ochreous- 

 yellow in his var. ochreacea. Klatt refers the /. taurica of 

 jlly 1st, 1870. 



