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swollen, pointed, more or less withered at flowering. Blade of fall 

 lanceolate, but claw expanded on each side in rounded, triangular 

 wings, which embrace the style. Standards very small, lanceolate, 

 spathulate, spreading horizontally. Crests of styles very large, 

 deltoid or quadrate, with toothed edge. Capsule ! oblong, buried 

 among the leaves. Seeds oval. 



Hab. South of Spain, especially near Antiquera and Cordova ; 



FIG. 57. IRIS ALATA. 



South of Portugal, Monchique Mountains, Algiers, Morocco, Sardinia, 

 Sicily, Greece. 



Var. C. Sprenger (B. Ort. Firenz. xiv. 1889, p. 13) describes 

 several varieties, differing chiefly at least in colour and size : var. 

 speciosa and lilacina from the Atlas Mountains ; nigrescens, cinerea, 

 and magna from Sicily, the last from Palermo. A white variety, 

 var. alba, is found in Spain and the Atlas Mountains. There is also 

 a var. cupreata, the origin of which is unknown. 



29. I. NEPALENSIS. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal, p. 54. (From 

 Nepaul, habitat.) 



Syn. 1. decora (Wallich, PI. Asiat. Ear. i. p. 77, t. 8G). See 

 also D. Don, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. p. 313. 



