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(2) f Var. galatica. 
Synonym. 
I. galatica , Siehe in ABZ, 1905, p. 115. 
Distribution. Siehe gives Galatia and Northern Cappadocia and says that he found it in 1904- Bommuller’s 
earlier specimen seems to be identical. 
Near River Halys, 1904. Siehe (K). 
Angora, 1892, Bornmuller (V) (B). 
Description. 
Siehe describes this as a splendid variety, but all the specimens that I have cultivated or seen in 
cultivation had flowers of a dull grey or purplish-yellow except for the dull red-purple blade of the falls. 
Siehe adds that forms are found with flowers that are almost light blue or of a uniform yellow. The 
leaves have a very distinct white margin. The conspicuous features of this variety are: 
(1) The central orange ridge is very broad and the colour spreads on to the surface of the blade. 
(2) There is a very marked constriction between the haft and the blade. 
(3) The wings of the haft extend laterally and do not curl over the style branches. 
(3) Var. Isaacsoni, Foster, Bulbous Irises, pp. 34 and 76 (1892). 
Distribution. Foster received bulbs from Mr Isaacson of Bushire with 
rubier icicivcu UU1UJ .... a note that they were found at 
Tung 1 i°Turkan, Kotal Kamarij and Seenah Safid but not to the north of Bushire. It occurs very scantily 
and locally in dry open spots on gypsum debris. 
Description. 
Foster describes this variety as differing chiefly from the type in the horny ribs on the under side 
of the leaves, in the undeveloped character of the central ridge on the falls, and in the absence of any 
deep patch of colour on the blade of the falls. The colour was a creamy white tinged with green and 
broken by thick violet veins, which, running parallel to the median streak on the haft, form a conspicuous 
violet zone around the ridge on the blade. 
(4) f Var. issica. 
Synonym. 
I. issica , Siehe in ABZ. I 9 ° 5 > P- 11 5 - 
DISTRIBUTION. This is said by Siehe to be found only on the hills in Eastern Cilicia between Issus and 
Misis. Even there it is rare. 
Description. 
Flowers wholly of a bright straw yellow without any markings, except for a few dark dots on the 
orange crest. The edge of the leaves is ciliate but not conspicuously white. 
(5) f Var. purpurea. 
Synonyms. 
I. purpurea , Siehe in ABZ. I9°5< P- 11 5- 
? I. EUnorae, Holmboe in Bergens Mus. Aarbog. XIII. p. 4 (W)- 
Distribution. I am told by Siehe that the habitat is in Armenia, a fact which has come to light since his 
article of 1905. 
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whether it is identical with the Erzinghan plant.] 
^Thts "variety has rather small flowers of a pleasing shade of red purple On the haft the edges 
are gre^ anTthe central ridge orange, dotted with brown. On the blade the colour becomes deeper, 
almost purple black and velvety. 
Observations. , , , , 
This Iris has been crossed with I. sindjarmsis both as the pollen- and as the seed-parent 
crossls Ire obuined by Tc. G. Van Tubergen, junr., of Haarlem, and both are Auriferous and easier 
t0 k ^t^; a nof^ng as the other cross, for the Bowers are composed of grey and 
rCd SJfcrt. however, is of a clear purple colour, and of this there exist several colour varieties. One 
of the best has been named not inappropriately Amethyst t. 
