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ral, short, iiidiniiio' upwards, compressed, leafy: the leaves scarcely 

 six inches long, sharpish, a lillle curved like a sickle at the lii)s, en- 

 tire, with a pale nieiiibranaceous margin: the flower generally soli- 

 tary, a little shorter than the leaves, erect, of a i)ale purplish blue: 

 outer i)etals drooping, obtuse, bhus with deeper blue spots, crested 

 in the place of the beard with three longitudinal, elevated, waved 

 ribs, variegated with orange and yellow ; inner petals narrower, 

 pointed, uniform in colour. It is a native of North America; flow- 

 ering in INIay. 



In the eleventh species, the bulb is the size of a hazel nut: the 

 scape simple, round, jointed, upright, bearing one or two flowers, a 

 foot and half in height: the leaf single, nerved, upright, with the 

 lip hanging down, two feet long: the border of the larger petals 

 while, suborbiculale, with a point; claws green on the outside, yel- 

 low within, dotted with black : the smaller petals several limes 

 shorter and less: claws convex on the outside, green, concave within, 

 dotted with brown, the length of the larger ones, but narrower; seg- 

 ments lanceolate, divaricating, a line in length, the middle one of the 

 three a little longer, white dotted with brown. Il is a native of ihe 

 Cape. 



It varies in the shape of the larger petals, and much in the co- 

 lours, as blue, purple, yellow, while, and spotted. 



The twelfth has the leaves channelled and convoluted, nol only 

 at the base, as in the other species, but the whole length of them; 

 they are awl-shaped at the tip, and shorter than the scape: the flow- 

 el's are blue, with cmarginate petals. It is a native ol" the South of 

 Europe. 



There are varieties with blue flowers, with violet-coloured flowers, 

 with white flowers, with purple flowers, with yellow flowers^ with blue 

 standard petals and white falls, with blue standards and yellow falls, 

 with striped flowers, the broad-leaved with blue flowers, ihe l)road- 

 leaved purple-flowered, the sweet-scented blue-flowered, the sweet- 

 scented purple flowered, with variegated sweel-scented flowers, and 

 the double-flowered. 



The thirteenth has a fleshy root, the thickness of llie ihiunb. 



