I 1 4 The Oncocyclus Section 
Tube, cylindrical, an inch long, green, with purple mottlings. 
Falls, creamy white, with thick brownish veins ; in front of the styles there is a conspicuous 
brown signal patch ; the beard is diffuse and composed of brown hairs ; the lanceolate blade is not 
separated by any constriction from the broad haft, but is sharply reflexed. 
Standards, broader and longer than the falls, much veined with dark purple-brown on a creamy 
white or grey ground. 
Styles, much dotted with brown and coming close down on to the falls. 
Crests, small, deltoid, reflexed laterally not vertically. 
Stigma, entire. 
Filaments, greenish. 
Anthers, green, with dark edges. 
Pollen, greenish, yellow. 
Capsule, trigonal, tapering at either end, especially to the apex and dehiscing below the apex. 
Seeds, nearly spherical, somewhat wrinkled, dark brownish red, with a very conspicuous yellowish- 
white aril, sometimes almost as big as the seed itself. 
Observations. 
There appear to be a number of local forms of this Iris, some of which are described in the 
article already quoted in the Bulletin of the Tiflis Botanic Garden. The varieties there mentioned are : 
var. typica, Trautvetter (l.c.). The standards are much longer than the falls on which the veins 
gradually fade away towards the margin. 
This variety is said to be found near Baku. 
var. lineolata. The segments are all approximately equal and the veins on the falls are deep in 
colour and tend to grow thicker instead of fading away as they approach the edge. The falls 
of this variety are said to extend horizontally and it is possible therefore that this is a synonym 
for I. Ewbankiana. 
The locality is given as Diabar in the Swant district on the right bank of the Cyri 1 . 
var. Schelkovmikowi has larger flowers with very dark standards and a yellow beard on the falls. 
It comes from the Karadscha-dagh and the Bosdagh on the left bank of the Cyri 3 . 
var. bimaculata, I can find no description of this variety, of which however I have received seeds 
through the kindness of M. Fomin of the Tiflis Botanic Garden. 
1 1 . Sari » 
(Plate XXVI) 
Schott ex Baker in Gard. Chron. 1876, 1. p. 788. 
Baker in J. L. S. XVI. p. 142 (1877). 
Hdk. Irid. p. 19 (1892). 
Boiss. FI. Or. V. p. 13 1 (1884). 
Siehe in Gard. Chron. 1904, II. p. 147. 
Synonyms. 
I. lupina, Foster in Gard. Chron. 1887, I. 738. 
Baker, Hdk. Irid. p. 19 (1892). 
•Garden, Feb. 18, 1893. 
•Bot. Mag. t. 7904 (1903). 
I. Manissadjam, Freyn in Bull. Herb. Boiss. IV. p. 180 (1896). 
[N.B. This is described as coming from the Karaman Mt. near Amasia, but no mention is 
made of /. Sari or of I. lupina .] 
Var. lurida from Cilicia Boiss. FI. Or. (l.c.). 
[N.B. This is not the I. Sari lurida of the Bot. Mag. 6960 (1887), which represents I. Bis- 
marckiana (p. 119).] 
Distribution. The mountainous region stretching from Eastern Cilicia in a north-easterly direction towards 
Kharput and north to Amasia. 
Cilicia: Gorumse on Kassan Oghlou in the Bakhyr Dagh, 1859, Kotschy (V). 
Kharput: Buslutasch, 1889, Sintenis (K) (B) (V). 
Amasia, 1886, Yusuf (Foster MS.). 
1902, Sprenger (Foster MS.). 
Diagnosis. 
/. Sari Oncocyclus ; planta magnitudine /. ibericae, cui vero haud dissimilis ; venis diffusis magis 
conspicuis, segmentis exterioribus convexis differt. 
Description. (The form here described is perhaps the commonest ; for others see Observations.) 
Rootstock, a compact fleshy rhizome of the usual Oncocyclus type. 
Leaves, about 6 to a tuft, linear, light green, rather glaucous, 9 — 12 inches long at flowering time. 
In some instances the leaves are straight, in others distinctly falcate. 
1 Cf. •Fomin in Act. Hort. Tiflis, vi. p. 42 (1904). 
* Cf. • Fomin in Act. Hort. Tiflis, vi. p. 44 (1904). 
* Named after the River Sar in Cilicia near which the plant was found. 
