7m.] CLI. IRIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 273 



KASHMIR, alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. DISTBIB. Westward to Russia. 



Stem 2-3 ft., sheathed. Leaves |-1 in. broad. Spathes 2-3 in., linear-oblong, 

 firm, green. Flowers 23 in. diara., bright lilac ; sepals ^ in. broad, claw keeled ; 

 petals -| in. broad; style-arms 1 in. long, crests small, deltoid. Capsule 1-2 in., 

 6-ribbed, long-beaked. A very common Oriental plant. Baker refers the Kashmir 

 specimens to I. Notha as a variety with very stout stems, broad leaves and large 

 flowers. 



4. Z. aurea, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxxiii. t. 59 ; tall, stout, leaves 

 ensiform, spathes 2-3-fid., flowers long-pedicelled yellow, ovary as long as 

 the perianth-tube, blade of crisped and crenulate sepals oblong as long as 

 the claw, petals shorter oblanceolate, style-arms with, entire broad incurved 

 lobes. Baker in Gard. Chron. 1876, ii. 584. I. crocea, Jacquem. mss. 

 Xyridion aureum, Klatt in Bot. Zeit. 1872, 501. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kashmir, Boyle, Jacquemont. 



Stem 3-3^ ft., stout, terete, with leafy sheaths. Leaves l-2 ft. by f-1 in. 

 Spathes 3-4 in. ; valves lanceolate, green. Flowers bright yellow ; sepals 2^-3^ in., 

 blade 1 in. broad ; style-arms lt~H in. long, crests deltoid. Capsule 1^ in. long, 

 oblong, 6-angled, beaked. Differs from I. spuria, chiefly in the yellow flowers. 



5. X. Wattii, Baker mss. ; tall, stout, leaves broadly ensiform, flower- 

 heads racemose on stout long peduncles, spathes 2-3-fld., perianth-tube 

 short infundibular, sepals obovate-spathulate, blade as long as the claw, 

 petals rather shorter obovate- oblong, style-arms with 2-fid laciiiiate tips. 



MUNNIPORE ; summit of Kongui, alt. 6000 ft., Watt. 



Stem with 5-6 flower-heads on erecto-patent peduncles. Leaves thin, 18 by 

 1-22 in., as long as the stem. Spathes with the outer valve 1-1^ in., lanceolate, 

 thin, green; inner much shorter, oblong, obtuse; pedicels short, jointed with the 

 ovary. Flotvers pale lavender blue, tube ^ in. ; blade of sepals f in. broad, striped 

 and spotted with purple, throat yellow ; petals | in. broad ; style-arms | in. long, 

 crest deltoid laciniate. Capsule small, oblong, obtusely trigonous. Baker, from 

 whose description much of the above is taken, says of the sepals, " apparently not 

 crested." Bhotan specimens from Griffith of this or an allied species have stout com- 

 pressed grooved stems and firmer spathe- valves. 



Sepals crested. 



6. X. XKilesii, M. Foster in Gard. Chron. 1883, i. 231 ; tall, stout, 

 leaves very broadly ensiform, flower-heads branched, spathes many-fld., 

 perianth-tube rather short, sepals spreading, blade as long as the claw 

 obovate, crests sharply toothed, petals as large spreading oblong undulate, 

 style-arms with a large fimbriate crest. Baker in Bot. Mag. t . 6889. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kullu and Parbutta valleys, alf. 4000 ft., Brandis. 



Stem 3 ft., as thick as the little finger, leafy upwards ; sheaths at the forks 

 4-6 in. Leaves l-2 ft. by 1-2 in. broad, pale green, firm, strongly curved. 

 Spathes 1-H in., valves oblong, obtuse ; pedicels short, jointed at the tip ; 

 flowers 2-4 in. diam., large; ovary clavate; perianth -tube ^ in. ; blade of sepals 

 1^-2 in., disk whitish with dark radiating purple blotches, margins purple, crest 

 yellow ; style-arms 1 in., blue-purple, crest square. Possibly this is the tall Iris 

 mentioned by Stewart (Panjab Plants, 241) as found in the Beas valley, alt. 

 5-12,000 ft., and used for thatching. 



7. X. nepalensis, Don Prodr. 54 (not of Wall.) ; stem slender, leaves 

 linear, spathes 1-3-fld., flowers shortly pedicelled, perianth-tube slender, 

 blade of sepals oblong as long as the claw, crests narrow, petals oblong, 



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