Tas, 6132; 
IRIS L2&vicata. 5 ieee 
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Native of Japan dnd MN. Bastern Asias) = = 
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Nat. Ord. Irntpacem.—Tribe Ine. 
Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 266). 
Iris levigata, ; caule elato obtuse angulato foliato, foliis }—2 poll. latis anguste 
lineari ensiformibus acuminatis utrinque viridibus costa prominula, 
scapo 1-2 flore, spathis 2—3-valvibus, valvis inequalibus herbaceis 
elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis maximis, 
pedicello ovario longiore, perianthii tubo crassiusculo segmentis exte- 
rioribus recurvis magnis late elliptico-ovatis obtusis ecristatis purpureis 
plaga basi aurea, interioribus parvis erectis conniventibus oblongis 
acutis, stigmatibus recurvis lineari-oblongis apice 2-lobis et dentatis, 
Irts levigata, Fisch., ex Turcz. Cat. Baikal, No. 1119; Fisch. et Mey Ind. 
Sem. Hort. Petrop.; Ledeb. Fl. Ross., vol. iv. p. 97; Klatt in Linnea, 
vol. xxxiv. p. 616; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amurr., p. 271; A. Gray Bot. 
Jap., p. 412; Miquel Prol. Fl. Jap., 306. 
I. Gemelini, Ledeb. comment in Gmel. Fl. Sib. in Deutischer, Bot. Ges. Regensb., 
vol. iii. p. 48. 
I. Kempferi, Sieb. ex Lemaire Ill. Hort. t. 157. 
I. versicolor, Thunb. Fl. Jap., 34 (ex Miquel, l.c.) non Linn. 
Whether under the indigenous form here figured, or the 
curious garden form called £ Kempferi var. 7. G. Henderson 
(Gard. Chron., 1874, p. 45), this beautiful hardy plant is 
likely to become as great a favourite in England as it is said 
to be in Japan. It was originally introduced by Von Siebold 
from Japan, and flowered in Verschaffelt’s establishment at 
Ghent in 1857, when a very pale variety of it was figured 
by Lemaire in the “Illustration Horticole.” As it there 
appeared under the name of J. Kemp/feri of Siebold, I suppose 
that this latter author identified it with the Sziti or Itz falz 
of Kempfer (4men. Erot. p. 873), a plant which Kempfer 
describes as an Iris with large double flowers, and which 
flowers during many days. Hasskarl (Miguel Protus. p. 306) 
says that it is the Itsi Katsi of the Japanese. Whatever 
may be its Japanese name or the history of that of Kampferi, 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1874. 
