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broader, but even narrower, than the claw, with a very conspicuous 

 median toothed ridge, which is generally a bright orange ; blade of fall 

 generally vividly coloured. Standard horizontal or drooping, narrow, 

 spoon-shaped, small, but relatively larger than in other Junos. Capsule 

 oval, with numerous reddish-brown, wrinkled, more or less cubical 

 seeds, each of which bears a conspicuous white strophiole. 



Time. Flowers in March or April, sometimes in February. 



Hab. Eastern Bokhara. 



27. I. FOSTERIANA. Aitchison and Baker, Trans. Linn. 



Soc. 2nd ser. Bot. iii. 114 ; Bot. Mag. 

 1892, t. 7215. (After Dr. Foster.) 



Fig. Bot. Mag. t. 7215. 



Charact. Slender, elongate 

 bulbs, with olive-green tunics ; fleshy 

 roots, thin and inconspicuous. Leaves 

 linear, not unlike those of I. xiphium, 

 but very striated on the outside. 

 A single flower, on a stem about a 

 foot high ; sometimes a second lateral 

 flower. Flower about two inches 

 across, with yellow falls and styles, but 

 red-purple standards. Claw of fall 

 narrow, not winged, suddenly expand- 

 ing into ovate blade. Standard hori- 

 zontal or deflexed, but relatively large. 



Time. Flowers in March. 

 -Afghanistan, near Gulran. 



28. I. ALATA. Poiret, Voyage en Barbaric, ii. 86. (From 

 alata, winged the winged claws of fall.) 



Syn. I. scorpioides (Desfontaines, Fl. Atlant. i. p. 40, t. 6). 

 I. transtagana (Brotero, Fl. Lusit. i. p. 52). I. trialata (Brotero. 

 Phyt. Lusit. t. 95). I. microptera (Vahl, Enum. ii. 142). Xiphion 

 alatum (Baker, Jowrn. of Bot. ix. 1871, p. 108). Zhelysia arandifl-ora 

 (Salisbury, Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 303). Thelysia alata fparlatore, 

 Fl. Ital. iii. p. 317). Costia scorpioides (Wilkomm, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. 

 i. p. 144). Iris bulbosa latifolia of Clusius. 



Fig. Bot. Register, t. 1876; Redout^, IM. t. 211; Gartenflora, 

 40 (1891), t. 1351 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6352 ; Brotero and Desfontaines, 

 as above. 



Charact. Bulb ovoid, large, with several brown membranous 

 coats, and fleshy, finger-like roots. Leaves in distichous arrangement, 

 clasping and hiding the short stem, and bent into a channel, large 

 (up to a foot), lax, pointed, arched, pale green. Flower large, sessile, 

 generally jne, sometimes two. Spathe-valves lanceolate, somewhat 



