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Tas. 6033. 
XIPHION HISTRIO. 
Native of Mount Lebanon. 
Nat. Ord. Irtpacex.—Tribe Irie». 
Genus Xipuion, Tourn. ; (Tab. nost. 5890). 
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Xrenion Histrio; vaginis membranaceis ima. basi demum reticulatis, foliis 
pedalibus basi vaginis 3~5-pollicaribus elongatis albis tectis anguste 
subulatis tetraquetris flores longe superantibus, spathis membranaceis 
angustis elongatis apice obtusis, perianthii tubo gracillimo 3-pollicari, 
Segmentis exterioribus obovato-spathulatis ultra medium horizontaliter 
patentibus ceruleis, margines versus plagis saturate violaceis maculatis 
disco aureo purpureo-venoso, interioribus erectis exterioribus paulo 
brevioribus longe unguiculatis anguste oblongo-lanceolatis apice obtusis 
integris azureis, stigmatis segmentis apice remotis erectis dimidiato- 
oblongis subacutis margine exteriore obtuse crenato. 
Irts Histrio, Reichenb. f. in. Bot. Zeit. 1872, p. 488. 
Iris Libani, Reuter mss. 
I received plants of this beautiful species in a fresh state 
and in full flower, from Mr. Berberey of La Ferriere, near 
Geneva, early in March last, with his own and M. Boissier’s 
request that it should be figured in the Botanical Magazine. 
Mr. Berberey further has had the goodness to inform me that 
it is the Tris Libani of his late lamented friend, M. Reuter's 
Mss., and was sent about ten years ago to M. Boissier by M. 
Gaillardot, who found it on Mount Lebanon and on Mount 
Gerizim, in Palestine; as also that its nearest ally is X. reti- 
culatum, M. Bieb. (Tab. nost. 5577, sub. Zris), from which it 
differs not only in structural characters, but in its paler colour, 
_4n flowering fully six weeks earlier, and in being inodorous. 
A comparison with X. reficw/atum shows that this is further 
abundantly different, in its much smaller size, copious finely- 
reticulated sheaths of the corm, much fewer shorter broader 
stout leaves often not exceeding the scape, broader spathes 
MaY Ist, 1873. 
