the ftigmas, and in thefe having the keel or ridge far more 
elevated and enlarged where continued into the lamina; the 
inner fegments are alfo linear-lanceolate, ereét, incurvedly 
fubconnivent, flattifh, refle€led at their fides, undulate, emar- 
ginate, not turbinately divergent, oblanceolate and convolute 
as in that; nor does the inner lip of the ftigmas reach beyond 
the middle of the lamina, which is recurvedly defle&ted, whereas 
in that it is equal in length to about three parts of the lamina. 
The flowers are fcentlefs, expanding in June. Agrees in 
habit and in every thing, except in what is above mentioned, 
with In1s Xiphium. : 
Found by Crusius in rich fpots, as well as on rocky hills, 
near the Tagus above Lifbon. 
Quer, in his Flora E/pagnol, makes Ir1s alata of LamaRCcK’ 
(his Xiphion J, and the Iris bulbofa latifolia, five I. of Crvu- 
stus) a variety of Ix1s Xipbium ; though to al] appearances 
no two fpecies can be well more diftin& ; the firft, with Iris 
(nobis Mora) Si/yrinchium, we were anxious to havé laid before 
the public, as fpecies fo well known to all the older Botanifts 
and Gardeners, but which feem now entirely loft to our col- 
le€tions, for upon ‘repeated fearches and inquiries we can no 
where hear of their now being in this country ; PARKINSON 
remarks the difficulty of preferving the former (not enume- 
rated in Hort, Kew. though the latter is) and attributes it to 
tendernefs ; which moft probably has been the caufe of the 
lofs of both. The firft is a native of Andalufia, growing 
in the woods on the Guadiana near Antequera and Cordova, 
and called by the Spaniards Lirto EspapaGNAL or AZUL; 
the other is found near Lifbon, where the roots are faid to be 
eaten under the name of Nozeruas; a leffer plant, fup- — 
_ pofed to be a variety of the laft, is found in Valencia. 
If, notwithftanding the information we have received, they 
fhould flill exift in the colleGion of any friend to our attempts. 
to illuftrate this order of plants, we fhould be highly obliged 
by the opportunity being afforded us of defcribing and figuring 
them. Both were lately and perhaps ftill are cultivated in the 
Botanic Garden at Paris. G. 7 
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Nate. In giving the fpecific chara@ters in this genus, we give them 
as if the plants ftood aie their different fabdivificns + Me rereinftances o 
the prefent as placed under that containing fpecies ‘¢ with bulbous ae 
* and channeled leaves, &c.” otherwife thefe charaéteriftics fhould — 
be given in preference to any others, So Le 
