Tas. 5773. 
IRIS sryuosa. 
Long-styled Tris. 
Nat. Ord. IntpEa.—Trianpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5298.) 
Ints stylosa ; foliis erectis anguste ensiformibus longe attenuato-acuminatis 
striatis; spathis 1-floris, valvis appressis inequalibus submembranaceis 
carinatis striatis, ovario angusto elongato, perianthii foliolis subeequa- 
libus late oblongo-spathulatis obtusis, exterioribus reflexis, stigmatibus 
linearibus profunde 2-fidis, segmentis apice 2-caudatis. 
Inis stylosa, Desfontaines, Flor. Atlant., v. i. p- 40, f. 5. 
I. unguicularis, Poiret, Encycl., v. iii. p- 802. 
Nevsecgra stylosa, Alefeld, fide Klatt, Revis. Irid. in Linnea, v. xxxiv, p. 589. 
A very beautiful and sweet-scented spring flowering 
Iris, for which the Royal Gardens are indebted to Mrs. 
Bodichon of Algiers. It has been referred by Alefeld to 
his genus Weubeckia, the characters of which, as given by 
Klatt in his revision of the order Jridee quoted above, seem 
to me of very doubtful generic value, depending mainly, if 
not altogether, on a very variable character—viz., the length 
of the tube of the perianth, “elongate” in Neubeckia, and 
“short,” in Iris. A further diagnostic character is given to 
Neubeckia, in the persistent septum of the anthers, but this, 
if not accompanied by characters of higher importance, is 
not enough to found a genus upon. Klatt refers the J. 
longispatha of this work (Table 2528) doubtfully to this 
species; Ledebour, however (Flora Rossica, v. iv. p. 95), 
identifies the J. Jongispatha with J. biglumis, Vahl, a Dahurian 
and Siberian species, of a very different habit. 
1. stylosa is a native of the hedges of Algeria, and is also 
found in Corfu and the Morea; it was first published, with- 
out a specific name, in 1789, by Poiret, in his Voyage en Bar- 
barie, v. ii. p- 96, and afterwards, first as J. stylosa, by 
MAY Ist, 1869. 
