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and surrounding area yellow with lavender blotches, 

 or the entire blade creamy yellow. The horny margin 

 of the leaf is more conspicuous than in the type. The 

 varieties linifolia and oculata are described in the work 

 just quoted, but neither, I think, are likely to be under 

 cultivation in Britain. In the Kew Handlist of Her- 

 baceous Plants there is a variety splendens. Hybrids 

 have been raised in the Cambridge Botanic Garden 

 between this species and /. caucasica. The type and varie- 

 ties are native of Western Turkestan and in Bokhara. 



122. I. Warleyensis, Foster in Gard. Chron., June 

 14, 1902, p. 386, fig. 134. This is a beautiful addition 

 to the garden, introduced by Messrs Van Tubergen of 

 Haarlem in 1901. In bulb, habit, stem, leaves, and in- 

 florescence, this plant closely resembles /. orchioides, var. 

 caerulea. The horny margin of the leaf is equally con- 

 spicuous, and it thus differs from both typical orchioides 

 and bucharica. From all these it differs markedly in 

 the coloration of the flower. The falls have a pale 

 violet strap-shaped claw, with wavy edge, and some- 

 what suddenly it expands into a nearly orbicular blade 

 which bears a crenate crest, bright orange in front, deep 

 violet or purple behind, and continuing down the claw 

 as a low white median ridge. About the crest is a 

 zone of deep orange, while the rest of the blade, except 

 for a narrow white margin, is of rich deep violet ; 

 coloration, however, is said to vary and the white 

 margin may be inconspicuous or wholly absent. The 

 orange zone about the crest may again be narrow or 

 absent. The standards are small, horizontal, mucronate, 

 and violet in colour. The style-arms are violet on the 

 upper surface, paler below ; crests long, violet in colour 

 with wavy margin. Is native of Eastern Bokhara on 

 mountain slopes at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft., being 

 gathered on the sides of the river Sureh-ab, a tributary 

 of the Amu Darya. 



