Tas. 6096, 
XIPHION SISYRINCHIUM, 
Native of the Mediterranean Region. 
Nat. Ord. Intwace®,.—tTribe Irie. 
Genus Xiputon, Tourn. ; (Tab. nost. 5890). 
Xipuion Sisyrinchium ; bulbo globoso fibroso-tunicato, caule gracili sepius 
flexuoso 2—6-floro, foliis sub-binis elongato-subulatis falcatis dorso 
semiteretibus, spathis 1}-pollicaribus ventricosis, ovario subsessili, 
peranthii tubo gracili subunciali, limbo tenuissimo ceruleo-violaceo 
1-14 poll. diametro, segmentis exterioribus obovato-spathulatis, inte- 
rioribus angustis paulo brevioribus:erectis, filamentis deorsum stylo 
adnatis, stigmatibus segmentis perianthii interioribus equilongis profunde. 
2-fidis, lobis erectis parallelis subulato-lanceolatis. 
X. Sisyrinchium, Baker in Seemann Journ. Bot., vol. ix. p. 42. 
Ints Sisyrinchium, Linn. Sp. Pl., vol. i. p. 59; Sibth. Fl. Greec., vol. i. 
p- 30, t. 42; Cav. Ic, t. 193; Rédouté Lil., t. 29 et 458. 
I. Egyptia, Delile Fragm. Fl. Arab., p. 6. 
I. fugax, Ten. Fl. Neap., vol. i. p. 15, t. 4. 
GYNANDRIRIS Sisyrinchium, Parl. Nuov. Gen., p. 52, Flor. Ttal., vol. iii. 
p. 309; Godr. et Gren. Fl. France, vol. iii. p. 246; Klatt in Linnea, 
vol, xxxiv. p. 577. 
Mora Sisyrinchium, Gawl, Bot. Mag., t. 1407. 
M. fugax, Ten. Syll., p. 26. 
M. Tenoreana, Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard., t. 110. 
This lovely little plant is the most widely diffused of all 
the Jridea, extending from Spain and Marocco to Turkey and 
Egypt in Europe and Africa respectively, and thence east- 
ward through Syria and Arabia to Affghanistan and Beloo- 
chistan, It further, probably, passes the confines of the 
British Indies, as my correspondent, Dr. Aitcheson, informs 
me by a letter just received, that he has found a bulbous 
Iris in the North-Western Punjab, which, from his descrip- 
tion, may well be this. oe 
Tt will be observed that this is the Morea Stsyrinchium 
figured in this work (Tab. 1407), but so indifferently as 
MAY Ist, 1874. 
