IRIS. 19 



diffused beard down the haft ; standards broader and a little 

 longer, orbicular, with a short claw. Style-branches above an inch 

 long ; crests very large, reflexing. 



Var. LURiDA Boiss. ; Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6960. — Falls with 

 copious brown-black spots and lines on a pale brownish ground. 



Hab. Asia Minor and Palestine. Introduced into cultivation by Leichtlin 

 about 1875. 



57. I. Haynei Baker in Gard. Chron. 1876, ii. 710. — Leaves 

 weak, linear, not at all falcate, 6-9 in. long at the flowering time, 

 |-^ in. broad. Stem 1-headed, 6-8 in. long, bearing about two 

 thin lanceolate bract-leaves. Spathe 1 -flowered ; valves thin, 

 greenish, lanceolate-acuminate, 3 in. long; pedicel short. Perianth- 

 tube an inch long ; falls with an orbicular blade 1^ in. broad, 

 about as long as the ascending pilose haft ; standards 3 in. long, 

 orbicular, with a short claw. Style-branches above an inch long ; 

 crests quadrate. 



Hab. Palestine, on Mount Gilboa. Known only from a couple of dried 

 specimens, collected by the late Mr. W. A. Hayne in 1872. Perhaps not 

 distinct from I. Sari. 



58. I. LupiNA Foster in Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 738. — Ehizome 

 short, fleshy. Leaves linear, light green, rather glaucous, a 

 foot long at the flowering time, ^ in. broad. Stem ^ ft. long, 

 1-headed, bearing 2 long leaves. Spathe 1-flowered, 3-3^ in. 

 long ; valves lanceolate, ventricose, persistent, pale green ; pedicel 

 short. Perianth-tube cylindrical, 2 in. long ; limb 3 in. long, dull 

 yellowish green, with fine red-brown veins ; falls obovate-cuneate, 

 1^ in. broad, with a velvety dark brown patch at the throat and a 

 diffused yellowish beard down the haft ; standards orbicular, with 

 a short claw, 2 in. broad. Style-branches above an inch long ; 

 crests large, quadrate, serrated. Capsule oblong-trigonal. 



Hab. Turkish Armenia, near Kharput, Sintenis 450 ! Sent alive to Prof. 

 Foster by Mrs. Barnum. 



59. I. Helena Barbey Herbor. Levant, 159. — Rhizome short, 

 moderately stout. Leaves linear-complicate, pale green, very 

 falcate, 3-4 in. long at the flowering time. Peduncle 1-headed, 

 3-6 in. long, bearing 2-4 short leaves. Spathes 1-flowered, 

 2-3 in. long ; valves lanceolate, membranous, pale green ; pedicel 

 very short. Perianth-tube cylindrical, greenish, 1^ in. long ; limb 

 2-2^ in. long, pale lilac, with fine red-brown veins ; falls orbicular- 

 cuneate, an inch broad, dark purple and velvety at the throat ; 

 standards 2 in. broad, orbicular, with a short claw. Style-branches 

 an inch long ; crests quadrate. 



Hab. Desert between Egypt and Palestine, in several places, Barbey ! 

 Discovered in 1880. Very near /. Sari. 



60. I. iBERicA Hoffm. Conira. i. 41 ; Kegel Gartenfl. t. 386 and 

 713 ; Flore des Serres, t. 1963 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5847. Oncocydus 

 ibericus Siems. — Tufts crowded on a short rhizome. Leaves linear- 

 complicate, 3-6 in. long at the flowering time, falcate, glaucous, 

 \ in. broad. Peduncle none or very short, 1-headed. Spathe 

 1-flowered, 2 in. long ; valves green, membranous, lanceolate ; 



