1679 
Iris bulleyana (Iridaceae), 53703. From Kew, Eng- 
land. Seeds presented by Sir David Prain, directo r , 
Royal Botanic Garden. A fine western Chinese iris 
like Iris elarkei, with a hollow, unbranched' stem. The 
narrow leaves are glossy above and glaucous be- 
neath. The stem, 15 to 18 inches long, bears a 
single head of 1 to 2 flowers. The falls have a 
greenish yellow, oblong haft veined and dotted with 
purple. On the obovate blade the coloring becomes 
clearer and consists of broken veins and blotches 
of bright blue -purple on a creamy ground. The ex- 
tremity is a uniform blue-purple, paler at the 
edges. The oblanceolate, channeled standards are 
pale blue-purple with deeper veins, and diverge *at 
an angle of about 60°. The keeled, dark purple 
styles are held high above the falls. (Adapted from 
Dykes, The Genus -Iris, p. 30.) 
Iris forrestii (Iridaceae), 53705. From Kew, Eng- 
land. Seeds presented by Sir David Prain, director, 
Royal Botanic Garden. A most pleasing iris, like a 
dwarf Iris wilsoni, from which it differs in the less 
glaucous leaves, clearer yellow, unveined flowers, 
and upright and not spreading standards. The stem, 
12 to 18 inches high, bears a single head of two 
flowers, although a lateral one-flowered branch some- 
times develops. • The short haft of the falls bears 
two central lines and broken lateral veins of brown- 
purple on a clear yellow ground; the oblong, ovate 
blade is often very long and drooping, of a clear 
lemon-yellow color which becomes 'deeper around the 
end of the style branches and is there marked with 
brown-purple veins. The oblanceolate yellow blade 
of the standards narrows to a deeply channeled 
haft, yellow, shorter than the falls, and slightly 
divergent. The broad, short-keeled, . deep yellow 
styles, often discolored with purple, curve down 
on to the falls. Native to open mountain pastures 
on the eastern flank of the Lichiang Range . in north- 
western Yunnan, China, at altitudes of 12,000 to 
13,000 feet. (Adapted from Dykes, The Genus Iris, 
p. 27.) 
Justieia adhatoda (Acanthaceae) , 53580. From Al- 
lahabad, United Provinces, India. Seeds collected 
by Dr. L. A. Kenoyer and Mr. Winfield Dudgeon, 
Ewlng Christian College. "A small survival shrub 
characteristic to the thorn scrub of peninsular 
