The Evansia Section 1 01 
with a few seeds of doubtful fertility. If seed could only be obtained, it is possible that plants might 
be raised, which would become better adapted to English climatic conditions and give us a valuable 
garden Iris. Probably, in this case, the greatest chance of success would be to grow the plants in a 
sunny, sheltered nook in stony, well-drained soil in a rock garden. Even the ordinary form of this Iris 
is occasionally able to produce its flowers in the open. Instances of this in Jersey and Devonshire 
occurred in 1912. 
Cultivation is not difficult and it is possible that the plants would do well in a half shady position 
among shrubs. The soil should be well drained and not too rich, though care must be taken that the 
plants are not starved when they have been growing for several years in one position or in a pot. 
t + /. Mjlesii 
Foster in Gard. Chron. xx. p. 231 (1883) [Type in Hb. (K)]. 
•Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6889 (1886). 
Hdk. Irid. p. 23 (1892). 
in Hooker, FI. Brit. Irid. VI. p. 273 (1894). 
Synonym. 
/. Wattii, Baker, Hdk. Irid. p. 17 (1892) [Type in Hb. (K)]. 
DISTRIBUTION. This Iris is only known from widely separated districts. 
Kulu : Parbati, 1876, Brandis (K). 
Spiti : north foot of Tari Pass via Mud to south foot of Parang Pass, 1856, Schlagintweit, 
no. 6964 (B). 
Bashahr : Seralin to Taranda, 1890, Hb. Lace (E). 
North-West India, 18 — , Wallich (BM). 
Manipur, 1889, Hort Foster (MS). 
Summit of Khongui Hill, 1882, Watt, no. 6337 (K). [This is the type of Baker's /. Wattii.] 
[Foster (MS.) described four seedlings given him by Colonel Beddome, raised from seeds 
gathered “ in Assam on the hills near Manipur," as being I. Milesii. They flowered in 
his garden in 1891.] 
Yunnan: Mengtze 6000ft., 18 — , Henry, no. 9117 (K). 
[This specimen appears to be a dwarf form of the species with leaves a little less, and stem a 
little more, than a foot long. These dimensions were also those of some plants that flowered 
in my garden in the exceptionally dry spring of 1912. In ordinary seasons the dimensions 
would be doubled.] 
Diagnosis. 
/. Milesii Evansia ; rhizoma viride ; caulis ramosus folia late ensiformia, luteo-viridia, nervis prominulis 
percursa superat ; spathae subscariosae, multiflorae ; segmenta omnia obtusa, emarginata, patentia, obscure 
maculata. 
Description. 
Rootstock , a thick fleshy rhizome, of a pale-green colour on the upper surface, with distinct rings 
where old leaves have become detached. 
Leaves , of a pale, yellowish-green, 2 feet or slightly more in length, 2 — 3 in. wide, thin, ribbed. 
Stem, 1 — 3 ft.; rises from a distichous tuft of many reduced leaves, much branched, with a pointed, 
bractlike leaf at each fork. 
Spathes, 2 — 3 or more flowered ; valves keeled, pointed, green, scarious at the margin. 
Pedicel, about 1 — 1£ in. long, semicircular in section. 
Ovary, dark green, triangular, with no obvious constriction at the base of the tube. 
Tube, about £ in., pale green. 
Falls. Blade about if in. long, haft 1 in. Blade oblong with a curiously blunted, emarginate end, 
pale reddish purple, with darker veins and blotches. Haft white marked with deep purple veins. Crest 
orange with purple spots along the base, very much cut up so as to become almost a beard. 
Standards, if in. by f in., oblong, spreading, with canaliculate haft ; apex emarginate with a distinct 
tooth in the centre of the notch. 
Styles, about 1 in. long. 
Crests, quadrate with a fimbriated edge. 
Stigma, obscurely bilobed. 
Filaments, short but slightly longer than the anthers. 
Anthers, short, cream. 
Pollen, white, similar to that of I. tectorum but somewhat smaller and of a less pointed oval. 
Capsule, oblong, much rounded, trigonal, somewhat inflated, with thin parchment-like walls, with 
slightly raised transverse veins. 
Seeds, very dark almost black, pyriform, with a slight ridge running down one side and a minute 
white aril. 
