Tas. 5890. 
XIPHION JUNCEUM. 
Native of Algiers. 
Nat. Ord. Ir1tpacem.—Tribe IrRipEx. 
Gen. Char.—Perianthium corollinum, regulare, tubo supra ovarium breve 
v. elongatum, limbi segmentis exterioribus obovato-spathulatis v. cuneatis 
imberbibus, interioribus oblanceolatis v. linearibus sepe multo minoribus 
erectis v. patulis. Stamina 3, ad basin limbi segmentorum exteriorum in- 
serta, perianthio breviora, filamentis filiformibus; anther lineares. Ovarium 
obtuse 3-gonum, 3-loculare; stylus perianthii tubo adnatus, stigmatibus 
3 petaloideis; crista 2-loba, lobis lanceolatis dentatis, Capsula coriacea, 
apice loculicide 3-valvis, loculis polyspermis. Semina subglobosa. Herbe 
regionis Mediterranex, Abyssinie, et Orientis incole ; radice bulboso. Folia 
pum graminea. Flores pauci, speciost, solitarii v. pauct, cwruleo-violacei v. 
avi. 
XIPHION junceum ; bulbo ovoideo membranaceo-tunicato, caule ¢-1} pedali 
1-2-floro, foliis caulinis 4-6 angustissime lineari-ensiformibus +45 unc. 
latis erectis inferne convolutis sursum filiformibus, spathe valvis 2-3- 
pollicaribus leviter ventricosis lanceolatis acutis tubum perianthii 
equantibus v. superantibus, perianthii aurei 3-poll. diametro breviter 
pedunculati tubo gracili pollicari, segmentis exterioribus longe ungui- 
culatis late obovatis retusis, interioribus brevioribus erectis oblongo- 
spathulatis stigmatibus xquilongis et paulo angustioribus, stigmatis 
lobis late semi-ovatis recurvis acutis. 
XiPHION junceum, Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxiv. p. 570. Baker in Seem. Journ, 
Bot. 1871, p. 41. Parlatore Flor, [tal., vol. iii. p. 304. 
Ints imberbis, Poiret, Voy. Barb., vol. ii. p. 85. 
Irs juncea, Desf. Flor. Atlant., vol. i. p. 39, t. 4. Boiss. Voy. in Esp., 
vol. ii, p. 703. Munby, Fl. Alger., p. 6. 
Iris mauritanica, Clusius Cur. post., 24. 
Diapuane stylosa, Salish. in Hort. Trans., vol. i. p. 305. 
A native of dry hills near the town of Algiers, where it is 
a great ornament, and from whence bulbs were sent to the 
Royal Gardens by Madame Bodichon, which flowered in the 
MARCH Ist, i871. 
