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oblanceolate, toothed and spreading horizontally ; style- 

 branches an inch long, the crests large quadrate. All 

 parts of the flower are dull greenish yellow colour 

 except the median ridge of fall and immediate neigh- 

 bourhood, which is of brighter yellow and more or less 

 marked with violet spots. The flowers are not fragrant. 

 A native of the Caucasus to Asia Minor, Persia, Kurdis- 

 tan and Turkestan, ascending to 6000 ft. 



Sir Michael Foster in "Bulbous Irises" describes a 

 var. major (turkestanica), which is larger in all its parts, 

 the flowers 4 to 5 on a distinct stem, which is wholly 

 hidden by the clasping bases of the leaves ; and a var. 

 Kharput, which differs both from the type and from the 

 var. major, and has a stem a foot high. The colour is 

 greenish yellow except the median orange ridge of fall. 

 The claw of fall has hardly any wings, and the blade is 

 large and oval. It is a handsome plant. 



126. I. Tubergeniana, Foster in Card. Chron., April 

 15, 1899, P- 22 5* An ally of /. orchioides and /. caucasica, 

 having the foliage habit and general features of the 

 latter, but differing in the colour of the flower, which 

 is the same as in /. orchioides. The flower is somewhat 

 similar to that of /. orchioides, but differs in the claw of 

 the falls, which bears conspicuous lateral expansions ; it 

 is unlike also in the median crest, which is cut up into 

 a conspicuous linear beard. The bulb is somewhat 

 slender ; stem about 4 in. high at flowering time, with 

 one to two or more flowers apparently sessile ; leaves 

 about six, each 2\ to 3 in. long, by \ to 2 in. at the 

 broadest part, of light glaucous green, pointed and con- 

 spicuously striated, with horny margin ; spathe-valves 

 1 1 to 2 in. long, narrow pointed, not inflated, thin but 

 green-membranous at the tip only. The falls are about 

 ij in. long, by not quite \ in. at broadest part, the 

 whole more or less fiddle-shaped ; crest forming a linear 

 beard. The standards are minute, three-toothed, the 



