HANDBOOK OF IRIDE-?F>, 



Hab. Through Central Asia from Songai-ia and Turkestan to Persia, 

 Afghanistan and Eeluchistan. Var. (jraciUs was collected in Western China by 

 Przewalski. 



14. I. SiNTENEsii Jauka, Adat. Erdl. 173. — Rhizome short- 

 creeping ; sbeatlis short. Leaves hnear, subrigid, glauccscent, 

 finely ribbed, a foot long, ^ in. broad. Stem slender, flexuose, 

 1 -headed, -|— 1 ft. long, bearing about 2 linear reduced leaves. 

 Spatbes 1-2-flowered, 2 in. long ; outer valves firm, green, lanceo- 

 late ; pedicel moderately long. Perianth-tube slender, about as long 

 as the ovary; limb bright lilac, 1^ m. long; falls with an obovate 

 blade ^ in, broad, one-third the length of the narrow haft ; 

 standards rather shorter, oblanceolate-unguiculate. Style-branches 

 above an inch long ; crests small, lanceolate. 



Hab. Macedonia, Thrace, Bulgaria, Greece, and Asia Minor. Differs from 

 I. graminea by its firmer leaves and i^roduced perianth-tube. 



15. I. Grijsi Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petrop. x. 702. — Pihizome 

 slender, short-creeping ; sheaths short, not splitting into fibres. 

 Leaves linear, glaucescent, finely veined, 6-9 in. long, \-)^ m. broad 

 at the middle. Stem 3-4 in. long, with a single reduced leaf at the 

 middle, and a single terminal head. Spathe 1-2-flowered ; valves 

 lanceolate, 2 in. long, scariose towards the tip and edge ; pedicel 

 produced. Ovary cylindrical, -J in. long ; tube about as long as the 

 ovary ; limb pale lilac, l-lj hi. lung ; falls with an obovate limb 

 shorter than the haft ; standards as long, oblanceolate-unguiculate. 

 Style-branches f in. long ; crests large, lanceolate. 



Hab. China; province of Fokien, Z)e G/vjs ! Intermediate betweyn en^ata 

 and ruthenica. 



16. I. Hartwegii Baker in Gard. Chron. 1876, 323. — Rhizome 

 wiry, short-creeping; sheaths short, splitting up into fibres. Leaves 

 linear, moderately firm, ^-1 ft. long, ^-^ m. broad, finely veined. 

 Stem 1-headed, ^ ft. long, with a smgle linear leaf low down. 

 Spathes 1-2-flowered; outer valves firm, pale green, lanceolate, 

 superposed, 1^-2 in. long ; pedicel produced. Perianth-tube l-\ in. 

 long ; limb pale yellow, 1^ in. long ; falls with an oblong blade 

 \ in. broad, shorter than the haft ; standards as long, oblanceolate, 

 ^ in. broad. Style-branches narrow, f in. long; crests divergent, 

 obtuse. Capsule oblong, obtusely trigonous, an inch long. 



Hab. California, first gathered by Hartweg in 1848. 



16*. I. Henkyi Baker, — Rhizome short-creeping. Leaves linear, 

 moderately firm, 1-li ft. long, i in. broad. Stems 1-headed, 6-8 in. 

 long. Spathe 2-flowered ; valves linear, green, 2 in. long; pedicel 

 as long as the spathe. Ovary oblong, \ in. long. Perianth-tube 

 very short ; limb lilac, i-f in. long ; falls with an oblanceolate 

 blade ^ in. broad, narrowed gradually lo the base ; standards shorter 

 and narrower. Style-branches h in. long ; crests lanceolate, ^ in. 

 long. 



Hab. West China ; province of Hupeh, Dr. Henry 6372 1 Intermediate 

 between ruthenica and graminea. 



17. I. DouGLAsiANA Herb, in Hook, et Am. Bot. Beech. 395 ; 

 Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 6083. — Rootstock stout, short - creeping ; 



