276 CLI. IRIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Iris. 



I. LONGMFOLIA, Royle III, 372, t. 91, f. 2 ; Baker is disposed to regard this as a 

 long-leaved form of I. nepalensis, Don Prodr. (not of Trans. Linn. Soc.). Prof. 

 Foster thinks it is an entirely different plant, apparently allied to Z ruthenica. 



I. NEPALENSIS, Wall. Cat. 5050 in part, a native of Nepal and Kurnaon. There 

 are two plants under this number in Herb. Wall., one a solitary specimen, with 

 spathes scarious throughout, the others with them green throughout. Of this latter 

 there is an excellent drawing by Wallich's article made in Nepal. Except in the 

 very pale flowers it may be a I. germanica ; but Royle (111. Him. PI. p. 372) 

 says that he perceived a distinct smell of Orris-root (as ofl.florentina) in Wallich's 

 specimen, which is against its being germanica. The specimen with scarious valves 

 looks more I. florentina, but it has no roots. 



I. NEPALENSIS, Wall. mss. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 818 (from Nepal, Wallich). 

 This has the dark blue flowers of I. germanica, very unlike the Wallichian drawing 

 of I. nepalensis, it may or may not agree in colour with some of his specimens. 

 Herbert makes it a var. of germanica, but gives no varietal character. Baker 

 cites it under deflexa. 



I. NEPALENSIS, Wall, ex I. Don. ; in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 310. This is a 

 mixture of Wallich's, Boyle's and the Bot. Keg. nepalensis; in consequence of 

 which the root is described as fragrant, as in I. florentina, and used for similar 

 purposes. Don distinguishes it from germanica by the shorter scarious ventricose 

 spathes (while they are not in Wallich's plant !) entire sepals, longer slenderer 

 tube, and more coarsely serrated' stigmatic lobes. Don has a variety with the scape 

 undivided, sub 2-fld. shorter than the leaves, but these are characters of Wallich's 

 drawing of his type. 



I. NEPALENSIS, Wall, ex Royle 111. 372, t. 90, f. 2. I have seen no specimens 

 of this, which is a native of Garwhal, on the ascent to Surkunda. It has a pale 

 flower and " onus " scented roots. 



CROCUS, Linn. 



Rootstock a sheathed corm ; stem 0. Leaves radical, narrowly linear, 

 channelled, margins recurved. Flowers solitary or fascicled, subsessile ; 

 basal spathes 1-3 or hyaline, floral embracing the ovary and sometimes a 

 narrow hyaline bract. Perianth funnel-shaped, tube very slender ; limb 

 subequally 6-lobed in two series. Stamens on the throat of the perianth, 

 filaments short, anthers longer, basifixed. Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform, 

 arms slender subentire lobed or laciniate ; tips stigmatic. Capsule oblong, 

 membranous, loculicidal. Seeds subglobose. Species about 70, European 

 and E. Asian. 



C. sativus, Linn. Sp. PI. 36 ; sheaths of corm closely reticulate, 

 basal spathes embracing the scape 2-valved, flowers violet autumnal appear- 

 ing with the leaves, throat of perianth bearded, anthers yellow, style-arms 

 exserted orange-red subclavate tips entire or lobulate. Maw Gen. Croc. 

 t. 20. C. sativns var. kashmeriana, Eoyle 111. 374, t. 91, f. 1 ; Stewart, 

 Panjab PI. 239 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. V. 100; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 360 ; 

 Benth. & Trim: Med. Bot. 274. 



KASHMIR, cultivated only. Native of South Europe. 



The Kashmir saffron is regarded by Eoyle as a variety of that cultivated in 

 England, distinguished by the very dark violet blue flowers, yellow anthers 

 and brick-red stigmas, but this accords exactly with the common form figured 

 by Bentley and Trimen. 



BELAHCAUDA, Adams. 



RootstocJc creeping; stem erect, leafy. Leaves ensiform, equitant. 

 Inflorescence branched, sheaths membranous; spathes several-fld., sub- 

 scarkms; bracts scarious ; flowers pedicelled. Perianth -tube very short; 



