JUNO 171 



Flowers rich yellow, or 



yellow and blue, with 



grey marks on falls ; 



stalked ; leaves without 



horny margin . .121. I. ORCHIOIDES 

 j-fCiaws expanding suddenly 



into a "deflexed blade, 



not broadly auricled. 

 Falls with oval-orbicular 



blade of deep violet 



colour, with zone of gold 



behind ; standards vio- 

 let; margin of leaf horny 122. I. WARLEYENSIS 

 Falls with obovate blade of 



golden colour with pur- 

 ple lines proceeding from 



crest ; standards pure 



white ; margin of leaf 



horny . . . . 123. I. BUCHARICA 

 Claw broadly auricled 



below the deflexed blade; 



flowers centrally blue, 



paler towards the peri- 

 phery ; margin of leaf 



not horny . . . 124. I. SINDJARENSIS 



120. I. Fosteriana, Aitch. and Baker, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc., 2nd ser., Sot. iii. 114; Bot. Mag., 1892, t. 

 7215; Foster, Bulbous Irises, pp. 44-82, figs. 26 and 

 56. An interesting plant peculiar in having purple 

 standards, with otherwise yellow flowers, exceptional 

 also in having one, or at most two flowered stems. 

 The bulbs are oblong, I in. in diam., with olive green 

 coats ; the roots fleshy, thin, and inconspicuous. The 

 leaves are not unlike those of /. Xiphium y but very 

 striated on the outside ; they number four or six to a 



