Armenian, and Jacobite cHurclies. Tt is not in Armenia 

 (the hitherto reputed habitat of /. Gatesii) which lies to the 

 northward of it. 



Plants of I. Gatesii were obtained in 1901 by the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. WuUe of Naples ; they 

 flowered in an open border near a south wall in June, 

 1902. The colour of the flowers is difficult of description 

 and probably variable. 



Descr. — Rootstuch very stout, short, creeping. Stems 

 two to three feet high, stout, one-flowered. Leaves four 

 to five, radical, a foot to a foot and a half long, by one 

 half to two-thirds of an inch broad, linear, acuminate, 

 nearly flat, pale, glaucous-green, nerves faint. Sjyathes 

 four to five inches long, pale green. Floicer shortly 

 pedicelled, five to seven inches broad. Perianth-tube short ; 

 outer segments orbicular, recurved, three inches broad, 

 very pale rose-lilac suffused with yellow towards the 

 disk, covered with innumerable close-set darker veins, and 

 sprinkled with minute purplish spots, that are larger 

 towards the base of the disk, which is furnished with long, 

 erect, purple-brown hairs ; inner segments longer and 

 more spathulate than the outer, erect and incurved, with 

 recurved margins, similarly striate and speckled, but of a 

 bluer colour, and with three stout purple ribs from the 

 base to beyond the middle of the disk. Style nearly two 

 inches broad, bipartite, segments divaricate, quadrate, 

 closely striate, with the perianth-segments acutely toothed. 

 CajJsale described as five inches loner. — J. D. H. 



Figs. 1 and 2, anthers : — enlarged. 



