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The Apogon Section 
VII. /. rutlunica. 
This species seems to stand entirely alone. In its habit of growth it is unlike any other Iris and 
its curious seeds show that it is very distinct. 
t XI. HU THE NIC A 
(Plate XIII) 
•Ker-Gawler in Bot. Mag. t. 1123 (1808), t. 1393 ( 1 8 1 1 ). 
Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. II. i. p. 117 (1810). 
•Gtfel, Sert. Bot. vol. I. (1830). 
•Reichenbach, FI. Exot. p. 39 (1834). 
Ledebour, FI. Ross. I. p. 55 (1842). 
Maxim. Prim. FI. Amur. Suppl. pp. 477, 485 (1859). 
Hance in Joum. Bot XIIL p. 139 (1875). 
Baker in J. L. S. XVL p. 138 (1877). 
Hdk. I rid. p. 4 (1892). 
Baker and Moore in J. L. S. XVII. p. 387 (1879). 
Maxim, in Bull. Acad. P^t. XXVI. p. 516 (1880). 
Melanges Biol. X. p. 704 (1880). 
Franchet, Plant David. I. p. 297 (1884). 
Richter, PI. Europ. I. p. 138 (1890). 
Allgem. Bot Zeit. 1905, p. 157. 
Synonyms. 
I. caesfitosa, Pallas ex Link, Jahrb. I. 3, p. 71 (1820). 
I. alpina , Pallas ex Roem. und Schult. Syst. I. p. 476 (1817); cf. Pallas MS. on specimens from 
R. Yenisei and Lake Baikal (BM) and Gmel. FI. Sib. I. p. 26, no. 26, t. 5. fig. 1 (1747). 
I. crista ta. *Somoku Zusetsu II. 6 (Japonice; Ko-kaki-tsubata). 
I. umflora , Pallas MS. ex Link, l.c. and Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Pet. XXVI. p. 517 (1880). 
I. nana, Maxim, l.c. p. 705 (1880). 
Xiphion ruthenicum, Alefeld in BZ. XXI. p. 297 (1863). 
Ioniris ruthenica, Klatt in BZ. XXX. p. 502 (1872). 
Isis ruthenica, Tratt Auswahl Gartenpfl. t. 113 (1821). 
DISTRIBUTION. Transylvania, the Altai region and thence eastwards into North China and Corea. 
Transylvania. Klausenburg, 1835, Wolff (B). 
1854, Wolff (B). 
1868, Janka (K) (BM). 
Hermannstadt, 1850, Kotschy (B). 
1851, Andra (B) (BM). 
Langenthal, 1904, Barth (E). 
1881, Barth (B) (K). 
Routnania. 1897, Loitlesberger (V). 
Altai Region. Altai, 1833, Brandt (B). 
1834, Meyer (B). 
1839, Hb. Bunge (B). 
1844, Richter (C). 
1873, Shuttleworth (BM). 
1881, Duhmberg (BM). 
Bijsk, 1898, Klementz (B) (V). 
Minussinsk; Kushabar, 1910, Price, no. 272 (K). 
South Altai; Marka Kul, 1876, Waldburg-Zeil (B). 
Turkestan. Borborogussun, 1879, Regel (K) (BM) (B). 
R. Ili, 1878, Regel (V). 
Przewalsk to Karkara, 1896, Brotherus (B). 
Dschagartai, 1877, Regel (BM). 
Baikal Region. Near Lake Baikal, 17 — , Pallas (BM). 
Irkutsk, 18 — , Schschukin (BM) (B). 
1888, Karo (B). 
Dahuria. 1829, Fischer (B). 
18 — , Ledebour (V). 
Amur Region. Nertschinsk, 1889, Karo (B) (K) (E). 
Chita to Manchuria; along the railway, 1911, White Cooper (Dykes). 
Blagowjestschensk, 1898, Karo (K) (BM) (E) (V). 
Extreme East near Sachalien, 1905, Karo (K). 
China. East Tibet, 19 — , Forrest, no. 2818 (K). 
Szechuan; Batang, 1903, Souli6, no. 4072 (P). 
Tatsienlu, 1898, Mussot, no. 361 (P). 
Yunnan; East flank of Lichiang Range, 1910, Forrest, no. 5655 (E). 
Shansi; no locality, 1884, Potanin (K) (B). 
