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IIANDnoOIv OF IRIDlvK. 



Stamina! column sliort. Filiform branches of the 2-cleft stigmas 

 ^ in. long. Capsule oblong, ^ in. long. 



Plab. Guanajuto, Mexico. Described from drawings and notes made by 

 Prof. Dnges. It was afterwards, I think wrongly, removed by Dr. Watson to 

 Neiiiasti/lis. 



4. T. LUTEA Link, Klotzsch & Otto Ic. t. 35 ; Baker in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6295. Bcatonia (jrandijiora and lutea Klatt. Sisijrin<hli(ni 

 tjramlijiuruiii. Cav. Ic. t. 192 (bad.). — Corm small, ovoid ; tunics 

 brown, membranous. Produced leaves 2-3, linear, plicate, dis- 

 tantly superposed, the largest 6-9 in. long. Stem terete, about a 

 foot long, 1 -headed. Spathe 1^-2 in. long; outer valves green, 

 lanceolate. Flower fugitive, pale yellow, 1^ in. diam. when ex- 

 panded ; outer segments with an orbicular plain spreading blade 

 i ill. broad, longer than the broad minutely dotted claw ; inner 

 similar in shape, but rather smaller, with a crystalline transverse 

 band at the top of the cluw. Column and anthers each i in. long. 

 Style-arms bifid below the middle ; forks falcate. 



Hab. Peru and Chili. Described from a plant flowered in 187-1 by Mr. 

 H. J. Elwes. 



5. T. BucciFERA S. Wats, in Garden and Forest 1889, 412, fig. 

 125. — Corm small. Eadical leaves nearly as long as the stem, 

 linear, plicate, ^ in. broad. Stem branched, a foot long. Spatlie- 

 valves unequal, 1^-2 in. long. Perianth 2 in. diam. with a purple 

 dotted greenish yellow base, the blade of the outer segments 

 obovate, purple ; inner segments tubular-folded in the centre, the 

 dilated sides below the small concave rounded purple blade approxi- 

 mate in two cheek-like prominences. Anthers nearly sessile, with 

 broad connectives. Styles as long, the conical branches widely 

 divergent, extended between the anthers. 



Hab. Mountains of Mexico. Discovered in 1888 by Mr. Pringle. 



6. T. vioLACEA Scliiede ; Link, Klotzsch & Otto Ic. t. 20 ; 

 Flore des Serres t. 998. Beatonia purpurea Herb. — Corm ovoid, 

 1 in. diam ; tunics membranous, brown. Basal leaves 2-8, linear, 

 plicate, 6-9 in. long. Stem slender, terete, 1-2-headed, about a 

 foot long. Spathes 2 in. long ; valves equal, green, lanceolate. 

 Flower lilac-purple, fugitive, above an inch in diameter when ex- 

 panded ; outer segments with a suborbicular blade ^ in. diam., 

 longer than the broad spotted claw, which is spotted with lilac on 

 a white ground ; inner similar in shape, but smaller. Anthers and 

 column each |- in. long. Style-arms cleft nearly to the base into 

 falcate subulate forks. 



Hab. Mexico. Introduced into cultivation by Schiede to the Berlin garden 

 about 1838. 



7. T. cuRVATA Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xvi. 136. Beatonia 

 curvata Herb, in Bot. Reg. 1843, Misc. 74. — Corm ovoid, 1 in. 

 diam. Leaves about 3, superposed, linear, plicate, the largest 

 6-9 in. long. Stem slender, a foot long. Spathe 1^ in. long. 

 Perianth above an inch long ; outer segments with a reddish 

 purple suborbicular blade and a greenish yellow dotted claw ; inner 



