208 The Juno Section 
Distribution. Turkestan ; in Eastern Bokhara and Fergana. 
Between Angren and Kokan, 1880, Regel (SP). 
Hissar Range near Karatag, 1905, Haberhauer (Hort. Willmott). 
Diagnosis. 
/. linifolia Juno ; foliis angustis, segment is exterioribus barbatis, seminibus arillo albido ornatis, 
sligmate bifurco facile distinguitur. 
Description. 
Rootstock, a slender bulb of the ordinary Juno character. 
Leaves, 3 — 5 to each bulb, narrow, acuminate, about 6 — 8 in. long at flowering time by £ — £ in. 
wide. The upper surface is of a dark glossy green with faint white veins, the under of a glaucous 
grey green with fine raised ribs. The edge is white and horny with no trace of any setae. 
Stem, only a few inches long, slender, bearing 1—3 flowers. 
Spathes, green, somewhat ventricose, keeled, membranous at the tip. 
Pedicel , none. 
Ovary, cylindrical. 
Tube , | — i^ in. long, slender. 
Falls. The comparatively broad haft passes with a very slight constriction into the obovate blade. 
The colour is a grey white more or less tinged with green except for a yellow patch of variable size 
round the end of the crest. The haft bears 4 parallel green veins with a few faintly-marked branching 
lateral veins of the same colour. Along the haft the central ridge is rounded and green but becomes 
yellow on the blade and breaks up into a number of coarse hairlike tubercles. 
Standards , minute, horizontal or pendent, usually three-lobed with the central point the longest, 
greenish white. 
Styles, of a pale greenish white, keeled. 
Crests, large, triangular, or subquadrate. 
Stigma, bilobed. 
Filaments, longer than the anthers. 
Anthers, short, cream or cream edged with blue. 
Pollen, white, with the usual pentagonal or hexagonal bosses characteristic of the pollen of the Juno 
section. 
Capsule, narrow, oblong, with papery walls. 
Seeds, quite unlike those of any other known Juno species, resembling those of the Oncocyclus 
Irises but smaller with a conspicuous white aril ; globular or pyriform. 
Observations. 
This Iris was first described by Regel as a form of /. caucasica, from which however it differs 
widely in its linear leaves and peculiar seeds. It has remained unknown except from herbarium speci- 
mens until it was rediscovered in 1905 by Haberhauer who collected it for Mr C. G. Van Tubergen 
of Haarlem and Miss Willmott on the Hissar range near Karatag in Northern Bokhara. In 1909 I 
saw a number of plants of this Iris growing and flowering in Miss Willmott’s garden at Great Warley 
and it is on these and on some of Regel’s typical specimens (SP) that the description here given is 
based. It is not a vigorous plant and may be difficult to keep in cultivation. 
The plant is remarkable for its deeply bilobed stigma and for the unusual character of the seeds. 
It might almost be said to form a fourth subdivision within the Juno section. 
I. DREPANOPHYLLA 
Aitchison and Baker in Trans. Hort. Soc. ser. II. part iii. p. 115 (1887). 
Baker, Hdk. I rid. p. 46 (1892). 
Synonym. 
I. fumosa var. stenoloba, Bornmuller and Sintenis MS. on herbarium specimens. 
Distribution. Transcaspia to Afghanistan. 
Askabad (Nephton), 1900, Sintenis (K) (BM) (E) (B). 
Afghanistan ; Badghis (Gulran), 1885, Aitchison (K). 
Diagnosis. 
J. drepanophylla Juno; caulis productus ; alia ut in /. Rosenbachiana. 
Description. 
Rootstock, of the usual Juno type. 
Leaves, 4—8 in number, falcate, channelled, with a horny minutely ciliate edge. 
Stem, 9 — 15 in., bearing 3 — 6 flowers in the axils of the leaves. 
Spathes, 2 in. long, membranous at the edge and tip. 
