ar 
IRIS. CuINENSIs. _ CHINESE IRIs. 
stilted 
Clafs and Order, 
TRIANDRIA Monocyn A. e 
Generic Charaéter. 
Cor, 6-partita, ineequalis: Jaciniis alternis feniculato-patentibus. 
peters. poalionma cucullato-bilabiata, 
“Specific Charaer. = 
: IRIS Chinenfi fs radice repente, caule paniculato mulifloro, 4 
| _ Tibus eae fligmatibus laciniatis, 
The pablee are Ssodebeed to Mr. Evans of the India Hood : 
for the intr tic n of this Plant from China, where it isa 
native. : 
“Ht flowered laf year, at different pipes for the fr time, 
in many colleétions near London ; this irregularity of its 
s blow 
_ Ing was occafioned, we prefume by its being kept in different. 
degrees of heat, in the ftoves of fome, and the green-houfes o 
others; Mr. Tuomson, Nurferyman of Mile-End, at the 
clofe of the year, had it growing very Juxuriantly in 
open ground; but the very fevere winter of 1796-1797, 
which the thermometer at Brompton was three degrees below 0, 
- deftroyed everthelefs, there is no doubt but it will beat 
the cold of our ordinary winters, and thrive better in the open’ 
ground, in a moift fituation, than in the ftove, or green-houfe, 
in either of which, however, at will flower very well; and, 
where the plant is Juxuriant, continue to do fo fo | 
: the bloffoms being numerous, and un- 
folding gradually: ina ftrong plant at Mr. Coivitx’s, Nurfery- 
__ man, King’s-Road, we counted feven bloffoms opie at 
_ one time on its different branches. . 
It differs from all other known Iris’s, in have a root pet 
fe€tly of the creeping kind, fending out fhoots to a confiderabl 
diftance, by which it is rendered very eafy of pre agation § 
its flowers, in form and colour, come neareft to thole 
criftata, aid have a confiderable degree of fragrance. 
