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( Horny edge of the leaves inconspicuous. 
\ Horny edge of the leaves conspicuous, 
f Flowers white and yellow. 
\ Flowers blue or purple. 
I. orchioidts (p. 203). 
12 . 
I. bucharica (p. 203). 
»3- 
* 3 ‘. 
14- 
15- 
Plant slender; the haft of the falls expanding suddenly into an oval or 
suborbicular blade ; flowers deeply coloured. 
Plant stouter ; the haft expanding more gradually into the oval blade ; flowers 
paler in colour. 
(Stem not produced. 
\Stem produced. 
Leaves not falcate ; seeds with circular aril as in the Oncocyclus Section. 
(Plate XLVIII, Fig. 8.) 
' Leaves very falcate ; seeds with large white aril or strophiole running nearly 
half round the circumference as in I. Rosenbachiana. (Plate XLVIII, 
Fig. 14.) 
I. Warleyensis (p. 204). 
I. coerulea (p. 205). 
/. Rosenbachiana (p. 206). 
»5- 
I. linifolia (p. 207). 
I. drcpanophylla (p. 208). 
Other species will be found at p. 209, which are not sufficiently well known to allow them to be placed with 
certainty in any group. 
t/. PERSIC A 
Linn. Spec. Plant, ed. I. p. 39 (1753). 
•Bot. Mag. t. I. (1787). 
•Gaertn. Carp. t. 13 (1805). 
•Red. Lil. IV. t 189 (1808). 
•Drapiez, Herb. Amat. de FI. IV. L 376 (1833). 
•Eeden Album, t. 83 (36) (1872—1881). 
Boissier, FI. Or. V. p. 121 (1884). 
Gard. Chron. 1890, i. p. 577- 
•Foster; Bulbous Irises, pp. 31, 74, figs. 20, 21 and 50 (1892). 
Synonyms. 
Coresantha persica, Alef. BZ. XXI. p. 298 (1863). 
Iris praecox, Salisb. Prod. p. 45 ( 1796). 
•Juno persica , Tratt. Auswahl, no. 84 (1821). 
For an account of the varieties see pp. 190 — 192. 
Distribution. Eastern Asia Minor and Persia. 
Pontus. Amasia, 1889, Bornmiiller (BM) (V) (B). 
Cappadocia. No locality, 1834, Monteret (K). 
18 — , Aucher Eloy, no. 2132 (K) (BM). 
Kurdistan. Near Euphrates, 1836, Chesney (K). 
1879, Danford (K). 
Marash, 1908, (HortD). 
N. Syria. Aleppo, 1867, Haussknecht (BM) (K) (B). 
1888, Sintenis (K) (B). 
Armenia. Van, 1899 — 1900, Maunsell (BM). 
Persia. Mt Elwend, 1895, Strauss (K). 
Murghab, 1868, Haussknecht (K) (BM) (B). 
Diagnosis. 
I. persica Juno; acaulis ; segmenta exteriora alata sed folia multo angustiora quam in I. alata \ pollen 
umbonibus pentagonis obtectum. 
Description. 
Rootstock. An ovoid bulb with membranous coats, the outer being brown, and with several fleshy 
roots, persistent in the resting state. 
Leaves, four or five to a tuft, linear complicate, almost erect. About 2 or 3 in. long at flowering 
time, becoming finally about 6 in. long, with a white, obscurely ciliated edge. 
Stem, extremely short, bearing usually one, but sometimes two flowers. 
Spathe valves, nearly colourless with a few green veins, especially towards the top, narrow, 2-3 or 
more inches in length, one-flowered. 
Pedicel , very short. 
Ovary, cylindrical. 
Tube, usually 2—3 inches in length but somewhat variable. 
Falls. The haft bears a median ridge of yellow or orange, on which are usually about three rows 
of black dots, on either side of which the colour is a pale bluish green. In its upper part the haft 
• The question of the claims of I. bucharica, I. Warleyensis, I. coerulea and possibly also of /. orchioidts to specific rank is 
still unsettled. They may eventually prove to be forms or hybrids of one or two species. 
