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broad, plain lilac, oblong, with a short claw. Style-branches an 

 inch long; crests quadrate, serrated. Capsule oblong-trigonous, 

 1^ in. long, minutely rostrate, the valves flat on the back. 

 Hab. China and Japan. Introduced into cultivation about 1874. 



74. I. JAPONICA Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 327. /. chinensis 

 Curt, in Bot. Mag. t. 373 ; Eegel Gartenfl. t. 511. 7. pnbriata 

 Vent. Hort. Cels. t. 9 ; Eed. Lil. t. 152. Evansia chinensis Salisb. 

 Ids fimhriata Tratt. — Ehizome thick, wide-creeping, sending out 

 slender stolons; sheaths not splitting into fibres. Leaves thin, 

 green, ensiform, 1-1^ ft. long at the flowering time, 1-1^ in. broad 

 at tlie middle. Flowering-stem as long as the leaves, bearing 

 many heads in a regular raceme. Spathes 3-4-flowered, under an 

 inch long ; outer valves oblong, pale green ; pedicels as long as the 

 spathes, articulated at the apex. Perianth-tube f in. long ; limb 

 pale lilac, fugitive, 1-1^ in. long; falls obovate-cuneate, ^-^ in. 

 broad, crisped tow^ards the edge, yellow at the throat and down the 

 haft, with a central crest and other faint ridges ; standards rather 

 shorter, oblong-unguiculate, also spreading. Style-branches ^f in. 

 long ; crests deeply fimbriated. 



Hab. Japan and North China. There is a specimen in the Banksian 

 Herbarium, dried from Kew in 1792. 



Subgenus VI. Psbudevansia. 



75. I. GiLGiTENsis Baker. — Tufts crowded ; sheaths not splitting 

 into fibres. Leaves weak, linear, 6-9 in. long at the flowering 

 time, |— J in. broad. Peduncle slender, 1 -headed, 4-6 in. long. 

 Spathe 2-flowered, l|^-2 in. long ; valves lanceolate, green, with a 

 pale margin ; pedicels short. Perianth-tube under an inch long ; 

 limb bright lilac, 1^ in. long; falls with an oblong blade ^ in. 

 broad, much shorter than the haft, which is strongly bearded ; 

 standards oblong-unguiculate. Style-branches under an inch long ; 

 crests small, deltoid. 



Hab. Gilgit, alt. 12,000 ft., Dv. Giles 185 ! Differs from kiimaonetisis by its 

 small fall-blades. 



76. I. GONiocARPA Baker in Gard. Chron. 1876, ii. 710. — 

 Sheaths short, splitting into a few slender fibres. Leaves weak, 

 linear, 6-8 in. long at the flowering time, -^^ in. broad. Stem 

 slender, 1-headed, | ft. long, bearing a single linear leaf. Spathe 

 1-flowered ; valves lanceolate, persistent, an inch long ; pedicel 

 none, or very short. Perianth-tube ^-^ in. long ; limb probably 

 lilac, an inch long ; falls oblong-cuneate, ^ in. broad, with a strong 

 beard down the keel ; standards oblong-imgniculate. Style-branches 

 ^ in. long ; crests large, deltoid, acute. Capsule small, oblong. 



Hab. Temperate region of Sikkim, 10,000—13,000 ft.. Sir J. D. Hoolcc.rl 

 Habit of I. nepaUnsis, but falls strongly bearded. 



77. I. KUMAONENsis Wall. Cat. No. 5052. 7. tiyrina Jacqem. 

 T. Kimjiana Foster in Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 611 ; Baker in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6957. — Rhizome stout, short-creeping ; tufts crowded ; 

 outer sheaths breaking up into fine fibres. Leaves linear, pale 



