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128. I. Danfordiae, Boiss, Fl. Orient, v. 124; Hook, 

 fil. in Bot. Mag., t. 7140; Baker in Card. Chron., Mar. 

 17, 1900, p. 170, fig. 54; Foster in Bulbous Irises, p. 62. 

 /. Bornmulleri, Haussk. /. amaslana, Born. A very 

 pretty Iris and not, in my experience, very difficult to 

 grow. Sir Michael Foster points out that in all respects, 

 save the minute standards, this Iris belongs to the re- 

 ticulata group, in that particular alone agreeing with 

 the Juno group. This is undoubtedly correct, but I 

 follow Baker in placing it here, because of the facility 

 afforded by that plain character in identification by the 

 plan of classification I have adopted. The bulb is small 

 and oblong with netted coat ; the leaves four-sided, 

 hollow, tetragonous, with a horny point produced after 

 the flowers, finally a foot long ; spathe-valves lanceolate, 

 subscariose ; the flowers are I to 2 in. across with tube 

 1 1 in. long, funnel-shaped, of rich yellow colour, with 

 variable dark-brown dots on the blade of fall near the 

 ridge and along the claw ; the claw of fall is narrow, 

 suddenly expanding into an ovate blade, which has a 

 conspicuous orange ridge, continued along the ciaw ; the 

 standard is reduced to a mere bristle ; the style-branches 

 are f in. long ; the crests large and ovate. Is native of 

 Asia Minor, the Cicilian Taurus, Amasia and Egin. 

 Flowers in February, but sometimes earlier or later. 



Herr Max Leichtlin, who introduced the plant, writing 

 in the Gardeners Chronicle of Mar. 7, 1891, p. 306, dis- 

 tinguished between /. Danfordiae and /. Bornmulleri, 

 pointing out, among other differences, that the "stigma" 

 of the latter has two broad stripes of bright green along 

 the ridge, while in the former it is unmarked. Mr 

 Baker and Sir Michael Foster agree in regarding them as 

 the same. 



129. I. Rosenbachiana, Regel, Descr., ix. 35; 

 Garden, 1888, June 16, tab. 653, fig. 2; Baker in Bot. 

 Mag., t. 7135; Foster in Card. Chron., 1887, i. p. 90, 



