Iris Lusitanica. PorTuCUESE FLAG,°° 
2 ese ie Ra AAR 0 og. 
Clafs and Order. 
TrianprirA Monocynta,- 
jeneric Charatfer—Vid.. 
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| Specific Charaffer and Synonyms 
RIS Jufitanica «(imberbis). involucro fubunifl 
~~ extimis ~parum- longioribus fubturbinato 
Jaminis revoluto-deflexis: intimis ex ereétis | “V 
conniventibus, harumque Jaminis lanceolato- blongis 
lateribus reflexulis, germine fubinclufo, G._ 
IRIS fordida. Soland. Herb. Baukf. , G 
IRIS bulbofa lutea inodora major. Bauh. Pim. 39. Morif. 
| >Hi, Po UL JeB. 4. Bs 16 pe 358- i Bae 
IRIS bulbofa III. five lutea. Clu/. Hy?. 212. fig. V. Baub, 
, Hift. 2. 705- doe: jog . 
SRS: 2. Reali Hit. 18 901 = 953. 
IRIS bulbofa flore lutéo. Geri emats 10165.) o eg 
IRIS bulbofa variegata.” Hort, Eyfh. ord. 4. tal. 11. Fi Be bax 
IRIS bulbofa lutea mixta. Mori/. Hip. fea, te 7-2 10+ 
IRIS bulbofa flavo flore. ids eod. fo. 9+ ie 2 Rage Oe 
HYACINTHUS poetarum luteus, ‘Lob. deeQ5- 6 
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_ We regret that the pure yellow variety of this Species had 
hot been reprefented in our plate rather than the prefent, in 
which a mixture of blue and violet appears, efpecially as that 
is the one figured and defcribed in Ciusius, by whofe cuts 
it is, as well as In1s Xiphium and xipbioides, excellently charac- 
terized; . our.plant is however SoLaANDER'S IRIs Jordida. 
From Iars Xipbium, the clofeft relative, it differs in having the 
germen almoft completely ¢ 
nclofed within the involucre; in 
‘the outer fegments being turbinately recuryed, not rotately or 
ho izontally fo, and ii . their being rather longer than the inner — 
Ones; in having its. outer ungues all the way broader, than ae 
