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24. I. AITCHIS ONI. Baker, Journ. ofBot. xiii. (1875) p. 108, 

 as Xiphion Aitchisoni. (After Dr. Aitchison, Indian botanist.) 



Lit. Boissier, Fl< Orient, v. 123. 



Charact. Thin linear leaves, a foot or a foot and a half long. 

 Stem a foot or more high, bearing one to three flowers, and two or 

 three bracts. The claw of the fall does not bear wings. Flower 

 purple in the type, but in var. chrysantha bright yellow. By its 

 leaves, tall stem, and the absence of wings to the claw of the fall it 

 draws near to the xiphium group, but the fleshy roots, and the small 

 spreading standards, mark it as a Juno. 



Time. Not cultivated. Flowers in its native home in March. 



Hab. The Punjaub, near Otipore ; Afghanistan. 



25. I. DREP AN OPHYLL A. Aitchison and Baker, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iii. 115. (From drepane (Grk.), sickle ; phyllon 

 (Grk.), leaf.) 



Charact. Four to six narrow, arched leaves. A short stem, 

 bearing two, three, or more flowers, about two inches across. The fall 

 bright yellow, with the claw devoid of wings. 



Time. Not in cultivation. Flowers in its native home in April. 



Hab. Afghanistan, near Gulran. 



26. I. ROSENBACHIANA. Regel, Descr. PI. Nov. pt. ix. 

 p. 35, tab. viii. (After General Rosenbach.) 



Lit. Gartenflora, xxv. (1886) pp. 409, 617, t. 1227 ; Foster, Gard. 

 Chron. 1887, i. p. 90, and 1889, .p 



i. p. 530 ; Baker, Bot. Mag. xlvi. 

 (Sept. 1890), tab. 7135. 



Fig. Regel and Baker, as 

 above ; Garden, 1888, tab. 653, 

 tig. 2. 



Charact. The bulb has 

 numerous fleshy roots, which 

 are, however, short and ovoid. 

 Leaves lanceolate, not very 

 pointed, eight inches or so long 

 and two broad, five or six to a 

 tuft. Flower sessile, appearing 

 soon after the leaves begin to 

 shoot ; one, two, or three to a 

 tuft. Tube of perianth from 

 two to six or more inches long. 

 Flower variable in size, but 

 often four or even more inches 

 across ; variable also in colour, 



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Fm - 5 ^. IRIS ROSENBACHIANA. 



which is often very vivid, the prevailing hues being red- or blue- 

 purple, and yellow. Fall almost strap-shaped, the blade being not 



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