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ral, short, inclining upwards, compressed, leafy: the leaves scarcely 

 six inches long, sharpish, a little curved like a sickle at the tips, en- 

 tire, with a pale membranaceous margin: the flower generally soli- 

 tary, a little shorter than the leaves, erect, of a pale purplish blue: 

 outer petals drooping, obtuse, blue, Avith deeper blue spots, cresled 

 in the place of the beard with three longitudinal, elevated, waved 

 ribs, variegated with orange and yellow ; inner petals narrower, 

 pointed, uniform in colour. It is a native of North America; flow- 

 ering in May. 



In the eleventh species, the bulb is the size of a hazel uut: the 

 scape simple, round, jointed, upright, bearing one or two flowers, a 

 foot and half in height: the leaf single, nerved, upright, with the 

 tip hanging down, two feet long: the border of the larger petals 

 white, suborbiculate, with a point; claws green on the outside, yel- 

 low within, dotted with black : the smaller petals several limes 

 shorter and less: claws convex on the outside, green, concave within, 

 dotted with brown, the length of the larger ones, but narrower; seg- 

 ments lanceolate, divaricating, a line in length, the middle one of the 

 three a little longer, white dotted with brown. It is a native of the 

 Cape. 



It varies in the shape of the larger petals, and much in the co- 

 lours, as blue, purple, yellow, white, and spotted. 



The twelfth has the leaves channelled and convoluted, not only 

 at the base, as in the other species, but the whole length of them ; 

 they are awl-shaped at the tip, and shorter than the scape: the flow- 

 ers are blue, with emarginate petals. It is a native of the South of 

 Europe. 



There are varieties with blue flowers, with violet-coloured flowers, 

 Avith Avhite flowers, with purple floAvers, Avith yelloAv flowers, \vith blue 

 standard petals and Avhite falls, Avith blue standards and yelloAv falls, 

 Avith striped floAvers, the broad-leaved Avith blue floAvers, the broad- 

 leaved purple-flowered, the sweet-scented blue-floAvered, the SAveet- 

 scenled purple flowered, with variegated sweet-scented floAvers, and 

 the double-floAvered. 



The thirteenth has a fleshy root, the thickness of the thumb. 



