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Pedicel , very short. 
Ovary , i in. 
Tube , 1 1 in. 
Falls. The narrow strap-shaped haft passes without any constriction into the small ovate blade 
which bears a raised central ridge. The colour is a bright yellow. 
Standards , minute, spreading horizontally. 
Seeds, oval or pyriform, brown, wrinkled, with conspicuous white aril or strophiole, resembling that 
of /. Rosenbachiana but not so large. 
Observations. 
This Iris has never apparently been introduced into cultivation and yet it would be an interesting 
plant for, with the exception of /. Rosenbachiana and /. linifolia, it is the only Juno Iris having seeds 
with a conspicuous white aril. 
It is curious that its distribution is the same as that of /. Fosteriana. It is distinguished from 
this by its seeds, by the small fall-blade and by the lack of the purple standards which are so re- 
markable in /. Fosteriana. 
Other Juno Irises. 
The following species of Juno Irises from Turkestan have been described by Mme Olga 
Fedtschenko and by her son Boris Fedtschenko of the St Petersburg Botanic Garden. Owing however 
to the fact that I have been unable to obtain either seeds, bulbs, or satisfactory herbarium specimens, 
I hesitate to place them in the divisions into which the Juno group has been divided and merely 
give their original descriptions together with suggestions as to their affinities. 
I. hissarica, O. Fedtschenko, ex Kneucker in Flora (A. B. Z.), 1905, p. 157. 
Distribution. On dry grassy hills near Sari-Kannisch in the Khanate Chussar in Bokhara at a height of 
from 1800 to 3600 feet. 
Sari-Kannisch, , Kronenburg (SP). 
Description. 
Rootstock, a long-necked bulb of the Juno type. 
Leaves, narrow, rising above the flowers, somewhat wavy, falcate. 
Stem, hardly produced at all. 
Spathes, green, scarious at the tip. 
Tube, gradually growing wider in the upper part, slightly overtopping the spathe. 
Falls , yellowish with a deep violet blade, edged with white. The small ovate blade is less than half 
as long as the haft. The central crest is white. 
Standards, elongated, two-thirds as long as the falls, obtuse, gradually narrowing to the haft ; the 
colour is violet. 
The plant was described only from a dried specimen and this probably accounts for the statement 
that the falls are yellow and violet. (A pale lilac would usually appear yellow in a dried specimen.) 
Mme Fedtschenko places I. hissarica near I. Narbuti and /. dengerensis, from which she distinguishes 
it by the narrower leaves and the colour of the flowers. The standards are shorter than those of 
/. Narbuti. 
[N.B. There is obviously some uncertainty about this plant, for in the paper in the Journ. Bot. 
Russ. (1909) the flowers are described simply as yellow. After examining the specimen quoted I am 
inclined to look upon this plant as merely an example of /. Rosenbachiana but owing to the imperfect 
material it is impossible to feel much confidence in any such identification.] 
I. Kuschakewiczi, B. Fedtschenko in Bull. Jard. Imp. Bot. Pet. V. p. 158 (1905). 
Distribution. Turkestan. 
Kurdai, 1879, Fetissow (SP). 
Description. 
Stern, hardly produced, densely clothed with leaves, which are falcate and possess a distinct horny 
margin with prominent setae. 
Tube, slightly overtopping the spathes. 
Flowers, bluish. 
Falls, elongated, oblong, with a deeply-coloured circular patch on the blade. 
Standards, short, drooping, broadening a little from the base and then dividing into three acute 
points. 
Affinity with /. narynensis is suggested in the original description, and it is not easy to separate 
the two plants except that the leaves of /. Kuschakewiczi seem broader, stiffer, and more sharply 
falcate and the segments of the flowers broader. 
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