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123. I. bucharica, Foster in Card. Chron., June 14, 

 1902, p. 385, fig. 135, p. 387 ; Bat. Mag., 1903, t. 7914. 

 This, like the last, is a beautiful new species and was 

 introduced at the same time by Messrs Van Tubergen 

 of Haarlem. It is nearly allied to /. orchioides and 

 similar to it, but as yet cultivated is apparently smaller, 

 shorter, and more slender. The bulb is similar but 

 more globose. The stem is I to I ft. high ; leaves 

 six or seven, sheathing the stem by their bases, shorter 

 and less gradually pointed than in /. orchioides, more dis- 

 tinctly striated on the under surface. The flowers are 

 sessile or nearly so, not stalked as in 1. orchioides; the 

 tube is about three times as long as the trigonal thin-walled 

 ovary ; falls consisting of a strap-shaped claw, pure 

 white in colour, which after a slight constriction expands 

 into a much broader, obovate, emarginate, rich, golden- 

 yellow blade, its hinder two-thirds bearing a large 

 plicate crest, which continues along the claw as an in- 

 conspicuous ridge. Spreading from the crest or parallel 

 with it are a few dark purple, almost black marks, but 

 these are said to vary. The standards are small, pure 

 white, spreading horizontally ; the claw canaliculate, 

 expanding into a broader, flat, distinctly mucronate blade. 

 The style-arms are large, pure white ; the crests large, 

 white, quadrate, or deltoid. Is native of Eastern Bokhara, 

 on mountain slopes at an altitude of 5 to 6000 ft. on 

 sides of River Sureh-ab, a tributary of the Amu Darya. 



This species probably varies, and in the Bot. Mag. 

 form the standards are three-lobed, the lateral lobes 

 rounded, the central one acuminate. 



124. I. sindjarensis, Boisi. et Haussk., FL Orient. 

 v. 123 ; Baker in Bot. Mag., 1890, t. 7145. This plant 

 is uncommon but highly desirable ; the flowers in effect 

 are pale blue and have a delightful vanilla fragrance. 

 The bulb is very large, elongate, or oblong with fleshy 

 roots. The stem is usually about I ft. high but is 



