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7. I. WINKLERI. Regel, Descr. PL Nov. ix. (1884), p. 37. 

 (After Mr. Winkler, of the St. Petersburg Botanic Garden.) 



Charact. Bulb ovate, with membranous, not netted, coats. 

 Flower single, sessile, with a vaginal sheath common to it and its tuft 

 of leaves. Leaves four to a tuft, linear. Claw of fall triangular, ex- 

 panding into an elliptical blade. Standards erect and narrow. 



Time. Not in cultivation. 



Hab. West Turkestan, near the river Narju. 



8. I. XIPHIUM. Linnseus, Sp. PL 58. (From 

 sword.) 



Syn. Xiphion vulgare (Miller, Diet. ed. 6). The " Iris bulbosa 

 angustifolia " of Parkinson. 



Pig. Bot. Mag. t. 656 ; Redouts', Lil. t. 337 ; Garden, 1881. 



cp 



FIG. 42. IRIS XIPHIUM (ov. ovary, cp. capsule). 



Charact. Bulb ovoid, with smooth membranous brown coats. 

 Leaves, frequently shooting in late autumn, awl-like at first, linear 

 when fully grown. Stem two feet or less in height, partly covered by 

 clasping leaves, bearing two flowers. Spathe-valves long, narrow, 

 not much inflated. The flower, four inches or so across, devoid of 

 distinct perianth tube, is borne above the spathe-valves by a long 

 pedicel, the ovary being in consequence often much exserted. Fall 



