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(4) Segments of a murky chocolate purple on a yellow ground ; plant dwarf. 
(5) Standards pale blue purple, falls deeper blue purple. 
(6) Standards smoky yellow and blue purple, falls veined with blue purple. 
(7) Standards smoky yellow and red purple, falls veined with red purple. 
I. lurida (p. 171). 
I. mgUcta (? I. pallida x 
I. variegata) (p. 172). 
I. s a mb u ana (? I. pallida x 
I. varugata) (p. 1 72). 
I '. squalens (? /. pallida x 
I. varugata) (p. 172). 
t + /. APHYLLA 
Linn. Spec. Plant, ed. 1. p. 38 (i753)- 
Asch. und Graebn. Syn. III. p. 476 (1906). 
Synonyms. 
[N.B. The names are grouped in chronological order since it is impossible in many cases to say to 
which of the forms of a polymorphous species they were applied ] 
I. biflora, Linn. Spec. Plant, ed. I. p. 38 ( 1753) ex parte. See Observations. 
I. biflora, Pallas, Iter. I. p. 17* 0770 . 
[N.B. Pallas’ specimen named I. biflora (BM) is certainly I. aphylla, but see Link Jahrb. 1. III. 
p. 71 (1820) where Wildenow is quoted as describing an altogether different plant.] 
I. nudicaulis, Lam. Encycl. III. p. 296 (1789). 
I. bohemica, Schmidt, FI. Boem. inch. Cent IV. p. 5 ( 1 794-)- 
/. ex trafoliacea, Mikan in Pohl, Tent. FI. Boh. I. p. 47 (1810). 
I. hungarica, *Walld. and Kit. Plant, rar. Hung. III. p. 251, t. 226 (1812). 
•Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. vol. II. t. 1 18 (1825). 
/. furcata, Bieb. FI. Taur.-Cauc. III. p. 42 (1819). 
I. falcata, Tausch in Roem. and Schult. Mant. I. p. 369 (1822). 
I. furcata, *Bot. Mag. t. 2361 (1823). 
I. furcata, •Lindley, Bot. Reg. t. 801 (1824). 
I. Fieberi, Seidl. in Opiz, Naturalien. p. 128 (1823). 
Oek. Tekt. Flora Bohm. p. 66, no. 48 (1836). 
„ var. monantha, Schur. Enum. pi. Transs. p. 655 (1866). 
I. breviscapa, Opiz, Naturalien. X. p. 19 1 (1825). 
/. bisflorcns, Host, FI. Aust I. p. 46 (1827). 
I. Clusiana, Tausch in Flora XII. i. Erganz. p. 49 (1829). 
/. reflexa, E. Berg in Flora XVI. I Beibl. p. 33 (1833). 
I. biflora, *Sweet, Brit. FI. Gard. Ser. II. vol. II. t. 152 (1832). 
I. nudicaulis, *Rchb. Icon. X. t. CCCXXXI. fig. 758 ( *847). 
I. biflora , • Rchb. Icon. X. t. CCCXXXII. fig. 759 (1847)- 
/. Fieberi, *Rchb. Icon. X. t. CCCXXXIII. fig. 760 (1847). 
I. rigida, Fieber ex Klatt in Linnaea XXXIV. p. 598 (1866). 
I. subtriflora, Fieber ex Klatt in Linnaea XXXIV. p. 599 (1866). 
I. nudicaulis, • Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5806 (1869). 
I. bifurca, Steven MS. ex Baker in J. L. S. XVI. p. 145 (1877). 
I. Schmidtii, HorL ex Baker in J. L. S. XVI. p. 145 (1877). 
I. benacensis, A. Kerner ex Stapf in Verh. Zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien. XXXVII. p. 649 (1887). 
I. Polonica, Blocki ex Aschers. und Graebn. Syn. III. p. 478 (1906)- 
DISTRIBUTION. From Bohemia and Silesia through Hungary to Southern Russia and the Caucasus. It is 
never found east of the Volga (see Pallas Iter. l.c.). 
Bohemia. Lobositz, 1844, Reichenbach (K) (V). 
Prague, 1848, Bayer (V). 
Teplitz, 1853, Winkler (V). 
Tetschen, 1858, Malinsky (V). 
Silesia. Breslau (Koltwitz), 18—, Krausse (V). 
Hungary. Hermannstadt, 1850, Kotschy (V). 
,8— Fuss (K). 
Langenthal, 1878, Barth (V). 
Tokay, 18 — , Hb. Joad (K). 
Kolosvar, 1901, Richter (E). 
Russia. Kursk, i860, Augustinowicz (BM). 
1863, Lindemann (V). 
R. Terek, 1881, Brotherus (BM). 
Elizabethgrad, 18 — , Prescot (C). , . .. 
[N.B. This specimen has two flowers in the spathe as well as a lateral stem, thus 
showing that Bieberstein's statement as to the number of flowers on the Caucasus 
plant was erroneous, see p. 159.] 
Elizabethgrad, 1864, Lindemann (V). 
Mt Beschtau, 1842, Hohenacker (BM) (V) (C) (E). 
Caucasus; Temir-khan-shura, 1910, Meyer (HortD). 
