whitifh freaks in the middle of its bafe, inner round-obovate, 
connivent-ere@t, fubundulate, fubpellucid, purplith ; cilias deep 
yellow with purple-brown tips; ftigmas ereft-patent, linear- 
oblong, lividly yellow, keel and both lips purplifh ; Segments of © 
inner lip revolute, acute; outer quite entire and purple. An- 
thers purplifh, fhorter than. the white filaments. Germ {ub- 
feffile trigonal-oblong, fix-fulcate, and nearly three times 
fhorter than the tube. Flowers early in May: its bloom is 
fweetifh, and not entirely fcentlefs, “as defcribed in Hort. Kew. 
‘where it is fafpeéted to be a variety of Iris fambucina; native — 
of the fouthern parts ‘of Europe 5 cultivated by Mri sas. in 
1758. . 
oe fpecimen had rather a larger. flower, and its lamine 
were rather moré undulate than -ufual, 
The drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs, Citas se 
woop and WyrkEs, Selah cath Neg -« 
