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long, cylindrical ; falls obovate, deflexed, 3 to ^J in. 

 long by ij in. broad, white spotted with violet or pale 

 purple ; standards erect, pure white, lanceolate, rather 

 shorter than the falls, \ in. broad ; crests large, hardly 

 at all oblique, oval, and entire, the inner edges over- 

 lapping. The style is free in the tube of perianth. 



It was introduced from Japan with an importation of 

 /. Kaempjeri and requires the same general culture but 

 does not apparently dislike lime. It does well on a wet 

 mound in the bog garden at Cambridge, flowering during 

 the latter half of June. 



29. I. hexagona, Walt. ; Baker in Bot. Mag., t. 6787. 

 The rhizome is wide creeping ; leaves slightly glaucous, 

 2 to 3 ft. long and I in. broad. The stems are 3 to 4 

 ft. long with several heads and several large leaves ; 

 spathes three to four flowered ; outer valves lanceolate 

 and green, sometimes long and leaf-like ; pedicel pro- 

 duced. The ovary has three deep and three shallower 

 grooves ; perianth-tube cylindrical, I J in. long (described 

 as I in. long), with many grooves ; limb 4 to 5 in. long, 

 dark, pale lilac or white; falls with an obovate blade, \\ 

 to 2 in. broad ; the claw broad, downy and greenish, with 

 a distinct ridge down the centre ; standards shorter, 

 erect, oblanceolate ; style branches ij in. long, very 

 concave, green, with a central lilac band, narrower than 

 the claw of fall ; crests deltoid, toothed. The style is 

 free in perianth-tube. Native of the Southern United 

 States, from Kentucky to Texas and Florida. 



The plant introduced is tender, but Mr Gerard says 

 the northern forms are hardy. It is not free flowering, and 

 was first flowered in this country in the Cambridge Botanic 

 Garden by planting out on a border. The rhizomes must 

 be able to run to some length. It has lived for some 

 time against a wall out of doors in favoured position. 



A plant introduced as Lamancei, and referred to 

 hexagona as a variety, has a strongly flexuous stem with 



