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netted than are the outer ones. Mr. Baker's description was confessedly 

 founded on imperfect material ; he was thus led to speak of the leaves 

 as terete or subterete, instead of tetragonal. Mr. Baker, who in de- 

 scribing this Iris in the Journal of Botany (loc. cit.) made for it a special 

 group, now (Iridex, p. 44) places it in the Juno group, being led to 

 do so by the minute size of the standards. Mere difference in the 

 size of any part of the flower must, judging the matter from a theo- 

 retical point of view, be of subordinate importance, of little real 

 weight when opposed to other characters. In all respects save the 

 minute standards, in the bulb, in the leaves, in the flower, and in 

 general habit, I. Danfordix agrees with the reticulata group ; in no 

 other respect than the minute standards does it agree with the Juno 

 group. I have, therefore, taken it in connection with the reticulata 

 group. 



6. I. KOLPAKOWSKIANA. Regel, Act. Hort. Petrop. v. 

 263. (After General Kolpakowsky.) 



Pig. Regel, Gartenflora, 1878, t. 939 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6489 ; Garden, 

 xxxiii. (1888), p. 558. 



Charact. Bulb globose, with netted coats, coarser and looser 

 than those of I. reticulata. The flower, single, sessile, two inches or 

 so across, appears while the leaves are a few inches high. The flower 

 and its tuft of leaves are invested in one common vaginal sheaf ; in 

 J. reticulata. the flower and each leaf 

 has its own separate sheath. Leaf linear, 

 with each edge thickened into a ridge, 

 thus making the leaf a narrow flattened 

 channel. Claw of fall narrow, long, ellip- 

 tical, separated by a narrow constric- 

 tion from the broader, longer, lanceolate 

 blade. The blade bears a low orange 

 median ridge, which becomes a me*re 

 streak on the claw. Standards nearly 

 as long and nearly as broad as the fall, 

 with a short claw ; the blade a very 

 elongated ellipse. Crests of style tri- 

 angular, long, narrow and pointed. The 

 styles unite into a column above the 

 tube. Colour of blade of fall a rich 

 red-purple, with deeper veins, the area 

 round the ridge being a creamy white, with broken veins. Claw of 

 fall yellowish, tending to green, with broken purple veins. Standards 

 and styles light purple or lilac. Stigma simple, or at least not dis- 

 tinctly bifid, as it is in all the reticulata group. Flowers fragrant. 



Time. March. 



Hab. Turkestan, Karatau Mountains. 



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