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Leaves, 3—4 are produced from each bulb, all enclosed in one membranous sheath, 2 in. long at 
flowering time, channelled with thick edges, linear, resembling those of some Crocuses. 
Stem, not produced. 
Spat he valves, distinctly green, acuminate. 
Pedicel, £ in. 
Ovary, ^ in. 
Tube, 2 — 3 in. 
Falls: under surface , greenish yellow with purple shining through. 
Upper surface. The lanceolate blade is tipped with fine red purple with a few darker veins. 
Below this purple region the ground is of a creamy white colour on either side of the low yellow 
crest. On the haft the crest diverges into two yellow bands, which become greenish at the base and 
the ground is marked with dotted purplish veins. 
Standards, concolour, oblong, of a very light purple. 
Styles, concolour, very light purple. 
Crests, narrow, pointed. 
Stigma, entire. 
Filaments, 
A nthers, 
Pollen, white. 
Observations. 
This species is no longer apparently in cultivation in England and from the fact that it has more 
than once died out it would seem to be somewhat difficult to manage. Its Crocus-like foliage at once 
distinguishes it from all other Irises but its position in the Genus is uncertain. 
/. IVlNKLERI 
Regel in Act. Hort Petrop. VIII. 1884, 677. 
[Named by Regel after a colleague.] 
Distribution. It has apparently only been found once at an altitude of 9 — 11,000 feet in Turkestan between 
the Urgent and the Alabuga, tributaries of the River Naryn. 
Description. 
This plant is not apparently in cultivation and only the original description can be given. It was 
said by Regel to be near I. Kolpakowskiana which may be readily distinguished “bulbi tunicis reticu- 
lato-fibrosis, foliis multinervis sub lente ad nervos denticulato-scabris.” 
Regel’s description is as follows : — Bulbi ovati tunicae membranaceae (nec fibroso-reticulatae). Caulis 
nullus. Scapus uniflorus, brevissimus ; vagina basilaris solitaria aphylla, scapum foliorumque basin inclu- 
dens. Folia radicalia 4, anguste linearia, a medio recurvato-patentia, 3-nervia, glabra, subtus nervo 
medio prominente carinata, florem aequantia vel superantia. 
Observations. 
Regel distinguishes this plant from /. Kolpakowskiana by the membranous coats of the bulbs 
(though it is just possible that he had only dried specimens from which the wrapping fibres had fallen 
away from the bulb). The tube is equal in length to the purple flower. The standards are erect and 
both narrower and a little shorter than the falls. 
THE GYNANDRIRIS 1 SECTION 
This section contains but one species, I. sisyrinchium, unless indeed we give separate names to 
the dwarf one-leafed forms, which seem to occur in many localities alongside the typical form. 
I. sisyrinchium is distinct from all other Irises in the possession of a corm as opposed to a bulb, 
although in its netted coats it makes an approach to the species of the Reticulata Section. 
t + /. SISYRINCHIUM 
Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I. p. 40 (1753). 
•Red. Lil. t. 29 (1802) and t. 458 (1816). 
•Sibth and Smith, FI. Graec. t. 42, vol. I. p. 30 (1806). 
Boiss. FI. Or. v. p. 120 (1884). 
Baker, Hdk. Irid. p. 43 (1892). 
Foster, Bulbous Irises, p. 1 (1892). 
Richter, PI. Eur. I. p. 259. 
Asch. und Graeb. Syn. Mit. FI. III. p. 516 (1906). 
1 The name Gynandriris appears to have been first used in connection with this Iris by Parlatore, Nuov. gen. e spec. p. 49 (1854). 
