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FIG. 38. IRIS BAKERIANA. 



Charact. Bulb ovoid, with netted coats. Leaves nearly a foot 

 long at flowering. Leaf armed with horny point, as in J. reticulata, 

 but cylindrical, with eight ribs, not four- 

 sided. Flower two to three inches 

 across. Median ridge of fall flattened 

 down, and reduced, so as to be hardly 

 more than a yellow streak. Marginal 

 regions of blade of fall deep violet ; 

 central portions creamy white or yellow- 

 ish, with numerous deep violet spots or 

 blotches. Claw with conspicuous violet 

 veins on the sides, but in the median 

 part more or less yellow, with violet 

 spots. Standards and crests of style 

 bluish lilac. Ripe capsule pointed, 

 thrown up above the soil by the pe- 

 duncle. Very fragrant. 



Time. February and March ; vari- 

 able, sometimes very early. 



Hab. Armenia, near Mardin. A variety with the parts of the 

 flower more slender, and with an obvious ridge on the fall, occurs near 

 Urmiah, in West Persia. 



4. I. VARTANI. Foster, Gard. Chron. 1885, i. 438. (After 

 Dr. Vartan, of Nazareth.) 



Pig. Bot. Mag. t. 6942. 



Charact. Bulbs with netted coats. 

 Leaf four-sided, armed with horny point, 

 four inches or moie high at flower- 

 ing time. Flower three or four inches 

 across. Claw of fall very narrow, sud- 

 denly expanding into an ovate-lan- 

 ceolate blade, longer and much broader 

 than itself. Median ridge of fall con- 

 spicuous, smooth, and yellow or white 

 on the blade, tuberculate and yellow 

 with black dots on the claw. Crests of 

 style very long, triangular, narrow, 

 pointed. General colour a dull laven- 

 der, produced by numerous lavender or 

 violet veins, more or less confluent, on 

 a creamy-white ground. Not fragrant. 



Time. October to December. 



Hab. Palestine, near Nazareth. 



5. I. DANFORDLS!. Baker, Journ. of Botany, 1876, p. 265. 

 (After Mrs. Danford.) 



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FIG. 39. IBIS VARTANI. 



