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garden of Collinson. It is native on hillsides and along 

 streams in Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, and other States 

 of America. 



42. I. speculatrix, Hance in Trimen Journ., 1875, p. 

 196, 1876, p. 75; Baker in Bot. Mag., t. 6306. I fear 

 that this is now lost. It is a pretty plant, however, and 

 may be re-introduced. The flowers have struck me as 

 very Moraea-like, and in the Botanical Magazine it is 

 said that its general habit is more like that of one of the 

 Cape or Angolan Moraeasthan that of the ordinary Irises of 

 the North Temperate Zone. From Moraea it differs very 

 distinctly in having a perianth-tube. It is very distinct, 

 even as an Evansia, differing from the one other grassy 

 leaved species in having a short pedicel. The present 

 plant has a tortuous rhizome as thick as a goose 

 quill, stems one-headed, less than a foot high with two 

 or three bract-like leaves. The prevailing colour of the 

 flower is lilac, but the falls have a white blotch follow- 

 ing the outline of the fall in shape, with a dark ring of 

 violet surrounding it. The crest is yellow. It was 

 discovered in the mountains of Hongkong by a Chinese 

 workman of the Botanic Garden there. 



43. I. gracilipes, A. Gray, Bot. Jap., 412; Bot. 

 Mag., 1903, t. 7926. With the introduction of this 

 plant, a short time since, all the Evansias are now, or 

 have been, in cultivation. Originally received from 

 Herr Max Leichtlin, a charming plant in a pot, sent 

 from the Cambridge Botanic Garden, has supplied a 

 figure for the Botanical Magazine. The flowers unfor- 

 tunately are rather fugacious. The flowering rhizome 

 produces several small branches forming a tuft ; sheaths 

 membranous, but not conspicuous. The leaves are thin, 

 pale green, about 6 in. long at flowering time, but 

 capable of attaining a foot, | to J in. broad. The stem 

 is slender, rather exceeding the leaves, and one to three 

 headed ; spathes rather more than J in. long, mem- 



