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The Gynandriris Section 
SVNONYMS. Of this, the most widely distributed of all Irises, there are innumerable forms, but there is little 
doubt that sufficient allowance has not been made by those who have given new specific names to local 
forms for the influence of soil and environment. The comparison of several hundred herbarium specimens 
has shown that the smallest and the largest forms often grow in the same neighbourhood. As instances 
we may take Schweinfurth’s (K) specimens from the Egyptian Delta, one of the strongest growing forms’ 
and Hurst’s minute examples (K) from Alexandria, Lemann’s (C) (BM) specimens from Gibraltar or 
Ruhmer’s from Benghasi in Cyrenaica (B), some of which have one leaf and some two. With such instances 
before us it is difficult to attach much value to such specific names as Heldreich’s I. monophylla. It 
is curious also to notice that Unger's (V) specimens from the Pyramids in Egypt are only half the size 
of Kotschy’s (V) specimens from the same locality. 
The following varieties have been named but they appear to have little value. 
Var. minor, Cambess. Enum. Balear. p. 142 (1827). 
Var. monophylla, Heldr. Atti Congr. Firenze, 1874, p. 234 (1876). 
Richter, PI. Eur. 1. 259 (1890). 
Var . fugax, Richter, PI. Eur. I. 259 (1890). 
Moraea sisyrinchium , Ker-Gawl. in Konig und Sims, Ann. 1. p. 241 (1805). 
*Bot. Mag. t. 1407 ( 1 8 x i ). 
Baker in J. L. S. XVI. (1877), p. 132 (and vars. minor and fugax). 
Moraea fugax. Ten. Syll. p. 26 (1831). 
Moraea Tenoreana, Sweet, Brit FI. G. V. no (1825). 
Gynandriris sisyrinchium. Pari. Nuov. Gen. e Spec. p. 49 (1854). 
FI. It III. p. 309 (1858). 
Gren. et Godr. FI. Fr. III. p. 246 (1855-56). 
Klatt in Linnaea, XXXIV. p. 577 (1866) 
Gynandriris monophylla , Klatt in Linnaea, XXXIV. p. 578 (1866). 
Nyman, Consp. p. 703 (1878-82). 
Xiphion sisyrinchium, Baker in Joum. Bot. IX. (1871), p. 42. 
•Bot. Mag. t. 6096 (1874). 
Diaphane edulis , Salisb. Trans. Hort Soc. I. p. 304 (1812). 
Iris maricoides , Regel in Act Hort. Petrop. vill. p. 678 (1884). 
Iris maculata, Tod. et Lojac. in Lojac., FI. Sic. III. p. 73 (1909). 
Iris fugax, Ten. FI. Nap. 1. p. 15 (1811-15). 
Iris collina, Salisb. Prod. p. 45 (1796). 
Iris zelantea, Vigo ex Parlat. Nuov. Gen. e Spec. p. 53 (1854). 
[Iris involuta, Garzia, Effem. sc. lett. Sic. XXXIV. 286 (1834).] 
Iris samaritanii , Heldr. in Atti Cong. Bot Firenze, 1874, p. 234 (1876). 
Iris aegyptica, Delile in Laborde, Voy. Arab. Petr. p. 82 (1833). 
Iris syrtica, Viviani, FI. Lyb. Spec. 3, t. 1, f. 1 (1824). 
Distribution. From Portugal and Morocco to North-West India. 
Portugal. Lisbon, 1828, Holl (V). 
1838, Hochot (V). 
1846, Trevelyan (K) (E) (C). 
3848-50, Welwitsch (C). 
Col lares, 1879, Ball (E). 
Elvas, 1886, Senna (B). 
Estremadura, 1848, Welwitsch (BM) (C) (V). 
Monsanto, 1877, Daveau (C). 
Serra da Arrabida, 1880, Muller (K). 
Serra de Gerez— Willkomm (K) (B), 1849, Willdenow (V). 
Spain. Almeria, 1890, Porta et Rigo (E) (BM). 
Algeciras, 1887, Reverchon (E). 
Murcia, 1852, Bourgeau (K) (E). 
Gibraltar, 1841, Lemann (C) (BM). 
Cordova, 1851-2, Lange (C). 
Malaga, 1837, Hb. Boissier (B), 1871, Cander ,(B), 1904, Gandoger (B). 
Cadiz (Aguada Puntaler), 1873, Winkler (B). 
Morocco. No locality, 1871, Hooker (K), 1872, Rein und Fritsch (K) (B), 1876, Cosson (K). 
Tangier to Tetuan, 1871, Ball (B). 
Tomara Forest to Shellah (Rabat), 1887, Abdul Grant (B). 
Djebel Hadid (Mogador), 1871, Ball (B). 
Shedma, 1871, Ball (B). 
Tazeroualt, 1876, Cosson (B). 
Asserarid, 1875, Beaumier (B). 
Algeria. Algiers, 1852, Muller (B), 1837, Bov£ (K) (B). 
1850. Jamin (K) (V). 
Maison Carrie, 1867, Paris (BM) (B). 
Setif (Constantine), 18 — , Dukerley (B). 
El Kantara (Constantine), 1889, Engler (B). 
Hussein-Dey, 1879, Gandojer (BM) (V) (B). 
