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tube greenish, cylindrical, 1-1 J in. long; limb sulphur-yellow, above 

 2 in. long ; falls with an oblong blade as long as the haft, both 

 copiously veined with claret-purple ; beard bright yellow ; standards 

 as long, oblong-cuneate, ^ in. broad. Style -branches an inch long ; 

 crests deltoid-cuspidate. 



Hab. Known in cultivation only. Described from a drawing made from a 

 plant that flowered at Kew, May 12, 1830. Between I. Intescens SLnifavescem, 



120. I. SQUALENs Linn. Sp. Plant. 56 ; Bot. Mag. t. 787 ; Jacq. 

 Fl. Austr. t. 5 ; Eeich. Ic. Crit. t. 993 ; Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 336, fig. 

 763. I. lepida Heuffel. — Rhizome stout, short-creeping. Leaves 

 ensiforra, glaucous, 1-1|- ft. long, 1-1 1^ in. broad. Stems 3-4- 

 headed, 2-3 ft. long. Spathes 2-3-flowered, l|-2 in. long; valves 

 oblong, subscariose ; pedicel short. Perianth-tube under an inch 

 long ; limb 2|~3 in. long ; falls obovate-cuneate, reflexing from 

 halfway down, the upper part plain bright lilac-purple, the claw 

 veined with lilac-purple on a whitish or yellowish ground ; beard 

 bright yellow ; standards obovate-unguiculate, as long and as broad 

 as the falls, plain dull lilac and yellow or brownish and yellow. 

 Style-branches above an inch long ; crests deltoid. 



Hab. Central Europe to the Caucasus and North Persia. Flowers with us 

 late in May, and has a faint scent like that of elder. Includes a large number 

 of the forms of the German Iris of cultivators. 



121. I. sAMBUciNA Linn. Sp. Plant. 55 ; Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 2 ; 

 Curt, in Bot. Mag. t. 187 ; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 335, fig. 762.— 

 Very near I. squalens, from which it differs by its less robust habit, 

 narrower perianth-segments, falls coloured and veined with claret-, 

 not lilac-purple, conspicuously emarginate standards and more 

 decided elder-like scent. 



Hab. Central Europe to the Caucasus and Armenia. Flowers with us late 

 in May. 



122. I. NEGLECTA Hom. Hort. Hafn. i. 55 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2435. 

 — Rhizome stout, short-creeping. Leaves eusiform, slightly glaucous, 

 purple at the base, 12-15 in. long, 1-1^ in. broad. Stems 3-4- 

 headed, l|-2 m. long. Spathes 2-3-flowered ; valves oblong, 1-1^ 

 in. long, green in the lower part at the flowering time, much tinged 

 with purple ; pedicel very short. Perianth-tube greenish, under 

 an inch long; limb 2 in. long; falls obovate-cuneate, 1-1^ in. 

 broad, the tip bright lilac, the haft much striped with lilac on a 

 white ground; beard bright yellow ; standards as long and as broad, 

 bright light lilac. Style-branches an inch long ; crests deltoid. 



Hab. Known only in cultivation. Flowers at the beginning of June. 

 Not scented. A living plant received at Kew from Dr. Lange under the name 

 of I. Conjgei, differs from neglecta by its green leaves, orbicular spathe-valves 

 an inch long, and falls pale lilac towards the tip, and veined on the haft with 

 di-ab-yellow on a white ground. Both are doubtless derived from I. squalens. 



123. I. HYBRiDA Retz. Obs. Bot. iv. 6. I. anuena DC. in Red. 

 Lil. t. 336 ; Sweet Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. 2, t. 165.— Differs from 

 nerjlecta by its rather longer spathe-valves, falls pure white or faintly 

 tinged with lilac and white style-branches. 



Hab. Known in cultivation only. Flowers early in June. Has no decided 

 scent. 



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