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short. The perianth-tube is greenish, an inch long ; 

 limb 3 to 3J in. long; falls obovate-cuneate, i^ in. 

 broad, white slightly tinged with lavender ; beard 

 bright yellow ; standards as long and as broad as the 

 falls, of purer white ; style branches I J in. long ; crests 

 deltoid, toothed. Native of Central and Southern 

 Europe. Flowers with /. germanica. 



Var. albicans (Lange), Ic. Plant. Hisp., t. 33. Flowers 

 purer white ; perianth-tube f in. long ; limb 3 in. long ; 

 beard pale yellow. The spathe-valves are shorter than 

 those of the type, and the inflorescence is more compact. 

 Flowers later than /. florentina. There is a garden 

 form named "Princess of Wales." Native from Spain 

 to Cyprus. 



106. I. pallida, Lam. ; Sot. Mag., t. 685 ; Garden, 

 Feb. 14, 1888, Red. Li/., 366; Maund's Botanic 

 Garden, iii. 303. Though not so frequently met with 

 as some other species, this certainly should not be omitted 

 from any collection. The flowers are fragrant and 

 usually of lovely blue-lilac colour. The rhizome is 

 stout, the leaves ensiform, very glaucous, I to l| ft. 

 long, I to l| in. broad. The stems are several-headed 

 and much overtop the leaves ; spathes 2 to 3 in. long , 

 valves oblong, I to l|in. long, quite scariose at flowering 

 time ; pedicel very short. The perianth-tube is cylin- 

 drical, an inch long ; limb 2 J to 3 J in. long ; falls obovate- 

 cuneate, 1 1 in. broad ; beard bright yellow ; standards 

 orbicular, l| to 2 in. broad ; style branches l| in. long ; 

 crests deltoid. A native of South Europe and West 

 Asia, ascending to 7000 ft. on the Atlas Mountains. I. 

 Junonia is an intermediate between this and /. germanica. 

 Good garden forms are the following : 



Albert Victor, falls soft lavender, standards soft 

 blue. 



Assaurey, falls crimson, standards rose pink. 



Dalmatica Princess Beatrice, flowers very large, falls 



