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clear deep lavender, standards lavender. This is 



one of best. 

 Delicata, falls lavender shading to white, standards 



French grey. 



Madame Pacquette, bright rosy lilac. 

 Queen of May, soft rosy lilac, almost pink. 

 There is a form with variegated leaves. 



107. I. plicata, Lam. Encyc., iii. 294. Though allied 

 to /. pallida and with the same rhizome, leaves, stem and 

 spathe-valves, it is very distinct in appearance. It is 

 marked by having white falls veined with lilac at the 

 margin, and standards also white flushed with violet at 

 the edge. The stems are 2 to 3 ft. high. The tube is 

 greenish, \ in. long ; limb 2 to 2 \ in. long ; falls obovate- 

 cuneate, I J in. broad ; standards as long and as broad, 

 overtopping each other; style arms purplish or lilac. 

 The flowers are fragrant and are produced in June. Is 

 known only in cultivation. Sir Michael Foster considers 

 this a cross between /. sambucina and /. pallida. There 

 is a beautiful form known as (t Madame Chereau " which 

 belongs here, as do others of the so-called "aphylla" 

 section in Earrs Catalogue and in Journ. Royal Hort. Soc. 9 

 xxviii. p. 184. The properly complete name, which 

 explains the origin of this wrong designation, is I. 

 aphylla var. plicata (Bot. Mag., t. 870), I. plicata being 

 here referred, in error apparently, to a species it does 

 not in the least resemble. 



108. I. Swerti, Lam. Encyc., iii. 294 ; Red. Li/., t. 

 306; Reich. Ic. Grit., fig. 1239. There is, I think, 

 nothing to distinguish this from /. plicata, save colour 

 and height, and both apparently might have come from the 

 same cross. The stems are I to l| ft. high, three to four 

 headed ; spathe-valves oblong, scariose, an inch long, 

 slightly tinged with violet. While the coloration of /. 

 plicata is violet, it is here of pale pinkish purple, the form 

 of the venation and flushing of colour being very much 



