Loddige's Botanical Cabinet to this species, but I know not 

 on what authority beyond Loddige's figure, which is ex- 

 tremely unlike this plant. Iris iberica is a native of the 

 Iberian provinces of the Caucasus, and of Imeretia (not of 

 the Iberian Peninsula) and extends into Cilicia, Kurdistan, 

 and probably Persia, inhabiting mountains of 6500 feet high. 

 The magnificent specimen here figured was. sent for publica- 

 tion by Mr. Ware, of the Hale Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, 

 with whom it flowered in May of the present year. 



Descr. Rootstock tufted. Stem three to six inches high, 

 leafy. leaves glaucous, shorter than the stem, much re- 

 curved, falcate or re volute, linear-ensifbrm, two to four inches 

 long, one quarter to three quarters in diameter, margins flat 

 or wrinkled, membranous, as are the sheaths. Spathes two, 

 ovate-lanceolate, rather longer or shorter than the perianth- 

 tube, membranous except at the base. Flower solitary, very 

 large, three to five inches from the tip of the reflexed to that 

 of the erect perianth-segments, and two to three across the 

 former. Outer perianth-segments erect, orbicular, subcordate 

 at the base, white, undulate, with a few red spots towards the 

 base on the inner surface ; inner segments deflexed, broadly 

 oblong, rounded at the tip, concave with entire recurved mar- 

 gins, yellow-green, covered with wrinkled dark-purple reticulate 

 narrow bands : disk depressed, black-purple, shining. Stigmas 

 reflexed on the disk of the inner perianth-segments, obovate- 

 oblong, keeled, with broad 2-fid recurved toothed tips, dull 

 yellow mottled with red-brown; convex base black-purple 

 and shining — J. D. H. 



