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Plants of the Punjab. 483 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, witH OpposiTE ExstTtpuLATE SimpLE LEAVES. 
Iris spuria, 
TRIDACE®. 
HL. Vie 27 2s 
Kashmir, 6,000 ft. 
(Clarke). 
Iris aurea, 
IRIDACER. 
BY B. i: vi, 278; 
Kashmir (Royle, 
Jacqeumont), 
Iris milesii, 
TRIDACER. 
EBs Evi; 278. 
Kulu and Rarbutta 
Valleys (Brandis). 
Iris nepalensis, 
Chalnandar, sosan , 
shuti, chiluchi. 
TRIDACER. 
EA Saal bio sdb vies 2 
Himalaya, 
5-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
PETALS UNITED. 
late segments, each flower has also 2 much shorter, nar- 
row, membranous bracts, sepals 3, petal-like, shortly 
stalked, reflexed, petals 8, smaller, linear spreading, tube 
1-14 in., blade } in., stamens 8, inserted at the base of the 
sepals, style stout, stigmas petal-like, arching over the 
stamens, 2-fid, with a transverse dorsal crest; capsule 
leathery, 83-sided, enclosed in the spathe, seeds many. 
large, leaves 1-3 ft. by 3-13 in., sword-like, leathery, 
streaked, spathes 9-8-flowered, 2-8 in. long, linear-oblong, 
flowers 2-3 in. diam., lilac, sepals 3 in., broad, stalk keeled, 
petals 4-4 in., broad, style-arms lin. long, crests small, 
triangular, capsule 1-2 in., 6-ribbed, long-beaked; for 
other characters see the last species. 
very like the last species, but flowers yellow and 
larger, 
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like the last species, but the flowers are purple, the 
sepals are crested, style-arms with a large fringed crest, 
spathes many-flowered, flower heads branched. 
small, rootstock with fleshy finger-like roots, leaves 
6 in. long at flowering time, 24 in. by 6 in, afterwards © 
streaked with purple lines and dots, spathes 14-2 in. long, 
9-3-flowered, flowers pale lilac, 14 in. long, style-arms 1 in. 
and less, ‘capsule 1-14 in., oblong, flattened, 3-angled with 
a long slender beak ; for other characters see the last species. 
Cultivated in Kashmir and Hazara in graveyards and 
gardens, 
FP 
