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creamy white ground, which has a greenish tinge. It is 

 figured in the Gartenflora as quoted above, and I think 

 the form taken as type in the Botanical Magazine must 

 be the same. 



Sir Michael Foster recommends a gritty and sandy, 

 but stiff loam^ and says that he covers his plants with a 

 temporary light in June and July in order to provide 

 the requisite roasting. I grew it on a south border for 

 some years, but the plant was outside the lights cover- 

 ing the allies, and therefore, perhaps, finally disappeared. 



68. I. Suwarowi, Regel, Descr. PL Nov., x. 45 ; 

 Baker in Bot. Mag., t. 7029. /. lineata, Foster ; Regel, 

 Gartenflora, t. 1244, figs. 1-6. Though not beautiful, 

 this plant is interesting and attractive. The rhizome is 

 short creeping ; leaves thin, linear, pale green, above a 

 foot long at flowering time, \ in. broad. The stem is 

 one-headed, about a foot long, with two to three reduced 

 leaves ; spathes two-flowered, l\ to 3 in. long ; valves 

 lanceolate, green, membranous, ventricose ; pedicel short. 

 The perianth-tube is cylindrical, f to I in. long ; limb 

 2 in. long, all segments finely and closely veined all over 

 with claret-purple on a pale greenish ground; falls 

 oblong, lanceolate, sub-acute, \ in. broad, with a violet- 

 blue beard ; standards as long, oblanceolate, the claw 

 sometimes faintly bearded ; style branches an inch long ; 

 crests crenate. A native of Turkestan. /. lineata, 

 quoted above, is identical. Cultivation is the same as 

 for the preceding of this section. 



