ONCOCYCLUS 109 



furnished with quite numerous hairs. The style-arms 

 are over I in. long, curved down over the falls, and the 

 crests are semi-circular with serrated or erose edges. It 

 is native of Armenia and Central Asia Minor. 



57. I. atrofusca, Baker in Gard. Chron., April i, 

 1893, P- 3&4* Garden, Oct. 24, 1896, plate 1089; /. 

 atropurpurea, var. atrofusca, Baker in Bot. Mag., t. 7379- 

 This, apparently, may at once be distinguished from /. 

 atropurpurea by its taller stem, longer leaves, and by the 

 greater length of the perianth-tube of the ovary, but Mr 

 Baker now regards both as belonging to the same species. 

 The rhizome is stout ; the leaves weak, ensiform, nearly 

 or quite I ft. long at flowering-time and nearly I in. 

 broad ; stem nearly 1 ft. long, nearly hidden by sheath- 

 ing inner leaves ; spathe-valves 3 to 4 in. long, pale 

 green ; ventricose, much imbricated ; pedicel short and 

 stout. The perianth-tube is cylindrical, green, 2 in. 

 long ; the falls obovate-cuneate, 3 in. long by I \ in. 

 broad, nearly black with a broad cushion of velvety 

 hairs at the base of the recurved portion and extending 

 down the claw, where the brown-black hairs are mixed 

 with yellow ones ; the standards are orbicular, nearly 

 4 in. long by 3 in. broad, dark claret-brown-purple with 

 radiating black veins ; style branches 2 in. long, \ in. 

 broad, very convex, acutely keeled, with large quadrate 

 recurved crests. Is native of Palestine on the east side 

 of the river Jordan. 



58. I. atropurpurea, Baker in Gard. Chron., Mar. 1 6, 

 1889, P* 33* Rhizome moderately stout; leaves linear 

 glaucescent, falcate, J ft. long at flowering time ; stem 

 4 to 5 in. long ; outer spathe-valves green, erect, lanceo- 

 late, 3 in. long ; perianth-tube green, longer than the 

 ovary ; falls oblong cuneate, 2 in. long, I J in. broad, 

 with a short unspotted purplish-black limb having a 

 yellow patch on claw and hind part of blade, upon which 

 is a dense beard of yellow hairs tipped with purplish 



