Tas. 8812. 
IRIS ReEIcHENBACHTI. 
Macedonia. 
TrmpaAcEAkE. Tribe MorgAer. 
Tris, Linn. ; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686. 
Iris Reichenbachii, Heuffel in Verhand. Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. viii. 
p. 206, et in Oest. Bot. Zeit. vol. viii. p. 28; Petrov. Fl. Nyss. p. 823; 
Velenovsky, Fl. Bulg. p. 534; Suppl. p. 263; Dykes, Gen. Iris, p. 151, t. 34; 
affinis J. mellitae, Janka, sed caule plerumque magis elato, spathis paulo 
brevioribus pro ratione latioribus haud divergentibus et perianthio tubo 
brevi distincta. 
Herba rhizomate digiti crassitudine. Folia dense fasciculata, ensata, magis 
minusve falcata, fasciculorum sterilium demum plerumque ad 12-15 cm. 
longa et 8-10 mm. lata, interdum vero multo longiora Tatboragiia; caulis 
florentis breviora, glauco-viridia, laevia. Caulis 10-15, rarius ad 25 cm. 
longus, inferne 1-2-foliatus, apice arcte biflorus. Spathae herbaceae, 
virides, late oblongo- vel elliptico-lanceolatae, acuminatae, acutissim 
carinatae, 3-5-5 cm. longae. Pedicellus brevissimus. Perigonii tubus 
virescens vel superne leviter purpureo-suffusus vel maculatus, 2-5-3 cm. 
longus, spathis brevior vel eis aequilongus; segmenta exteriora limbo 
reflexo elliptico vel obovato 3-4 em. longo, 2-2-5 cm. lato lutescente 
marginem versus purpureo-suffuso cum barba lutea vel toto luride purpureo 
cum barba coerulea, ungue late cuneato 2-2-5 em. longo pallidiore purpureo- 
venoso; segmenta interiora erecta, lamina obtusa elliptica vel obovata, 
subito vel rarius sensim in unguem rubro-maculatum contracta, eo incluso 
4-6 cm. longa, 2-:5-3 cm. lata, eodem colore ac exteriora nisi clariora. 
Antherae filamentis -breviores. Ovarium oblongum, 1-1-5 cm. longum ; 
styli rami late oblongi, pallide purpurei vel flavescentes, cristae lobis oblique 
late ovatis dentatis. Capsula elliptica, 5-5 cm. longa, sulcis 6 latis obscuris. 
Semina obovata, luteo-fusca.—I/. Reichenbachii var. bosniaca, Beck in Ann. 
K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, vol. ii. p. 51. J. balkana, Janka, Adat. 
Erd. in Mag. Tud. Akad. math. és term. K6zl. vol. xii. (1874), p. 173, et 
in Termez. Fiizet. vol. i. part iv. (1877), p. 1 (reimpress.), t. xiv’; Bak. 
in Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. vi. p. 648 pro var.; ibid. 1878, vol. x. p. 266; 
Velen. Fl. Bulg. 532; Suppl. i. 263; Lynch, Book of Iris, p. 131. /. 
Chamaeiris var. balkana, Bak. in Gard. Chron, 1878, vol. x. p. 266. J. 
serbica, Pancic, Fl. Agr. Belgr. ed. iii. p. 206 (1883). J. bosniaca, Beck, 
le. vol. v. p. 573 et in Wien. Ill. Gartenzeit. 1895, p. 215, tab. 2; Velen. 
le. p. 535 ; Suppl. 263. J. Skorpila, Velen. Fl. Bulg. p. 535; Suppl. p. 263. 
I. Reichenbachiana, Bak. Handb. Irid. p. 32; Charrel in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 
1892, p. 410 ; Lynch, Book of Iris, p. 133. J. macedonica, Nadji (Charrel) 
Emp. Ottom. Pl. Salon. p. 40 (nomen). J. Athoa, Foster in Gard. Chron. 
1893, vol. xiii. p. 711. J. Straussii, Lynch, Book of Iris, p. 129 (partim, 
teste Dykes).—O. Stapr 
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