132 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
IRIDACEAE. 
35. Iris arctica, n. sp.—Rhizome stout, oblique, clothed 
brown sheaths which are split into fibers : leaves erect, thin, 
2-2.5°" long, 5-8™ broad, acuminate, veiny; young leaves 
at base: stem almost twice as long as the leaves, simple, with 
one or two leaves, tl top 
leaf rarely reaching the 
spathe: 
flowered ; 
like, acuminate, 3-6 10 
shorter than or surpassi 
the pedicels; t 
ner thinner, acute 
ap eo: exserted — 
& 
, tet oe n. is Sechaeal perianth yin 
three-fourths na 
2. 3 long, 1™ broad at top, narrowed at base, » 
~orbicular, violet with a greenish-yellow spot where i 
claw, 3.5°™ long, almost 4™ broad, veiny; standa 
_ 0uS, variously shaped, generally ovate with a sort 
_ Surmounted with a long setaceous appendage, the mv 
lower Part, corresponding to the claw, white blotch 
ple on the lower half: style branches 3°™ long; crests 
entire and Poaaan on the i inner — laciniate ; 
tsrptin ion of /ris setosa has been taken from Baker's 
edeb, rh Ross, 4 ‘96 the —_— reference. a 
