Omitted from Classification. 



In the last edition of the Kew Handlist of Herbaceous 

 Plants I find the following, but too late to include them 

 in their proper position. 



Pogoniris Biflorae. 



I. mandschurica, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Peters., x. 

 724. This is an ally of I. favissima. The rhizome is 

 short, creeping, and the sheaths of the leaves do not 

 split up into fibres. The leaves are ensiform, green, 

 6 in. long and J in. broad. The stem is very short, one- 

 headed ; spathe two-flowered, I J in. long; valves lanceo- 

 late green with a scariose edge ; pedicel short. The 

 perianth-tube is J in. long ; limb yellow ; falls obovate- 

 cuneate, truncate, l| to 2 in. long, \ in. broad ; the 

 beard yellow ; standards shorter and rather narrower. 

 The style branches are above an inch long, crests obtuse, 

 dentate. A native of Southern Manchuria, flowering 

 late in May. 



Juno. 



I. Aitchisoni, Baker, Garden, 1898, Aug. 6, plate 

 1182. This, Mr Baker says, has the habit and leaves 

 of /. Xiphium, but standards small and spreading. Sir 

 Michael Foster observes, in his Bulbous Irises ^ that by 

 its tall stem, its leaves, and the absence of wings to 

 the claw of the fall, it draws near to the Xiphium 

 group, but the fleshy roots and small spreading 

 standards mark it as a Juno. The bulb is ovoid, I to 

 i \ in. diameter, with fleshy root fibres and brown mem- 



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