ONCOCYCLUS 115 



the style a well defined heart-shaped signal-patch of 

 intense, almost black crimson or red purple ; beneath the 

 style a beard of not very numerous, dark purple, almost 

 black hairs, disposed chiefly on each side of the middle 

 line, leaving a bare median streak. The standard 

 orbicular or nearly so, with a bluntly serrate edge, 

 marked with thin blue veins on a creamy white ground, 

 without spots or dots, though on the claw the veins 

 become blotched as they assume a red-brown-purple 

 colour. Style horizontal or even inclined upwards, 

 somewhat narrow, marked with numerous reddish brown 

 spots or blotches on a creamy white ground ; the crests 

 deltoid, divergent, with finely serrate edge. In this 

 species Sir Michael Foster has observed the rudiment of 

 a second flower within the spathe-valves. It is striking 

 and handsome, though inferior in beauty to Lorteti, 

 Gatesii or iberica. 



Mem. In catalogues I find /. Eggeri described as 

 having beautifully shaped flowers of dark brown colour, 

 and /. nigricans described as a new species from the 

 Holy Land, with large flowers of brilliant black-brown, 

 but I have failed to find any sufficient description of 

 either. The same must be said for /. Manissadjani, which 

 is described as like /. lupina dwarf and small, and /. 

 demawenJica, offered by Messrs Barr & Sons, who describe 

 it as a grand new Cushion Iris from Mount Demawend, 

 with flowers much larger than /. ibertca, and of hand- 

 some claret red colour. It flowers in May. Another 

 new species is /. Haynet, said to be of remarkable beauty. 

 Mr Perry of Winchmore Hill offers /. Chrisfmanni, which 

 he describes as a new Oncocyclus of dwarf habit and very 

 free flowering, the flowers being large, standards of rose 

 colour beautifully lined with yellow, falls yellow, heavily 

 lined with crimson, and having a large crimson blotch. 



