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purple Iris that apparently grows freely in Srinagar is not this possible purple I. kashtniriatta but 
the form of /. gertnanica , which Foster named Kharput , after the town in Asia Minor from which 
it was first sent to him (see p. 163). 
There seems no good reason for separating from I. kashmiriana Foster’s /. Bartoni. The 
yellow-green ribbed or striated leaves, the green spathes, the bearded standards and the thick, 
somewhat flattened stem are all characteristic of I. kashmiriana, which moreover is not mentioned 
by Foster in his description and notes of 1 . Bartoni. The latter he described from plants obtained 
from Kandahar in 1880 by Colonel Barton, who was informed that the rhizomes came from the 
ancient ditch surrounding the ruins of the old town, which are situated at a distance of four miles 
from the present site. Obviously the plant was growing in Kandahar in a semi-cultivated state, and the 
fact that it flourished in the damp soil of a ditch also agrees with what we know of I. kashmiriana. 
The typical I. Bartoni, which I have grown and flowered and compared with Foster’s MS. 
notes, has a very long beard (1 in.) on the haft of the standards, but I find that Foster records 
(MS.) that, in some plants that flowered in 1885, the hairs on the standards were "much less 
developed,” " hardly visible often.” 
It should be noticed that the Botanical Magazine figure of I. Bartoni does not show any 
purple markings on the blade of the falls. These occur on the typical plant but, as Foster records 
in his notes, they are variable. I have noticed similar variations in plants of I. kashmiriana which 
I have received direct from Kashmir. 
I. Griffithii 
Baker in Hdk. Irid. p. 32 (1892). 
Distribution. Afghanistan. 
Afghanistan, 18 — , Griffith, nos. 421 and 5915 (K). 
Kafiristan, 18 — , Griffith, no. 5904 (K). 
Diagnosis. 
I. Griffithii Pogoniris ; planta nana ; cau/is simplex ; spathae herbaceae ; tubus elongatus. 
Description. 
Rhizome, resembles that of a small Pogoniris. 
Leaves, 6 — 12 in. long and slightly over an inch broad at the widest part. 
Stem, 6 — 8 in. unbranched, bearing a reduced leaf below the centre. 
Spathes , lanceolate, green, 3 in. long. 
Pedicel, none. 
Tube, 1^ — 2 in. 
Flowers, apparently purple. 
Observations. 
These plants agree with the other Pogoniris of North-West India in having long, narrow, green 
spathes. I. Griffithii is, however, easily distinguished from I. kashmiriana by its short, unbranched 
stem. 
THE NEPALENSIS SECTION 
This contains either one or two species, which are at once separated from all other Irises by their 
remarkable rootstock (Fig. 25, p. 185), which is not unlike that of a Hemerocallis. For the discussion 
of the claims of J. Collettii to specific rank, see the observations on that species and on I. nepalensis. 
t XI. NEPALENSIS 
(Plate XXXIX) 
D. Don, Prod. FI. Nep. p. 54 (1825) non Wallich. 
•Sweet, Brit FI. Gdn. Ser. II. vol. I. (vol. iv.), no. 11 (1829). 
•Royle, Illustr. Bot. Him. t 90, fig. 2 (1839). 
Baker in J. L. S. XVI. p. 143 (1877). 
Hdk. Irid. p. 22 (1892). 
Collet, FI. Siml. p. 515 (1902). 
Synonyms. 
/. decora, Wall. PI. As. Rar. I. p. 77, t 86 (1832). 
I. sulcata, Wall. MS. Catalogue no. 5049 (K). 
I. fasciculata, Jacquemont MS. (K). 
/. yutmatiensis, L£veill6 in Fedde, Repert Nov. Sp. VI. p. 1x3 (1908). 
Neubeckia decora et sulcata, Klatt in Linnaea XXXIV. pp. 588 — 90 (1866). 
