. Bulbous irises. 64 7. I. WINKLERI.—Regel, Descr. PI. Nov. ix. (1884), p. 3V.(After Mr. Winkler, of the St. Petersburg Botanic Garden.) Charaet.—Bulb ovate, with membranous, not netted, single, sessile, with a vaginal sheath common to it and its tuftof leaves. Leaves four to a tuft, linear. Claw of fall triangular, ex-panding into an elliptical blade. Standards erect and narrow. Time.—Not in cultivation. Hat).—West Turkestan, near the river Narju. 8. I. XIPHIUM.—Linnteus, Sp. PI. 58. (From xiphion, asword.) Syn.—Xiphion vulgare (Miller, Diet. ed. 6). The Iris bulbosaangustifolia
. Bulbous irises. 64 7. I. WINKLERI.—Regel, Descr. PI. Nov. ix. (1884), p. 3V.(After Mr. Winkler, of the St. Petersburg Botanic Garden.) Charaet.—Bulb ovate, with membranous, not netted, single, sessile, with a vaginal sheath common to it and its tuftof leaves. Leaves four to a tuft, linear. Claw of fall triangular, ex-panding into an elliptical blade. Standards erect and narrow. Time.—Not in cultivation. Hat).—West Turkestan, near the river Narju. 8. I. XIPHIUM.—Linnteus, Sp. PI. 58. (From xiphion, asword.) Syn.—Xiphion vulgare (Miller, Diet. ed. 6). The Iris bulbosaangustifolia of Parkinson. Fig.—Bot. Mag. t. 656 ; Redoute, Lit t. 337 ; Garden, Fig. 12. - [bis miiiioi (ov. ovary, cp. capsule). Charact.—I>u]l) ovoid, with smooth membranous brown , frequently shooting in late autumn, awl-like at first, linearwhen fully grown. Stem two feet or less in height, partly covered byclasping I ayes, bearing two flowers. Spathe-valves loug, narrow,qoI much inflated. The flower, tour inches or so across, devoid ofdistinct perianth tube, is borne above tlie spathe-valves by a longpedicel, tin: ovary being in consequence often much ezserted. Fall 65 fiddle-shaped, having an orbicular blade, separated by marked con-striction from the long claw, which either spreads horizontally orforms, with its fellows, a funnel. Standards narrow, erect. Crestsof style large, quadrate. Capsule long, narrow; seed numerous,small, cubical or angular. Colour either a variable hue of purple(with a narrow orange signal on the blade of the fall) or pure yellow,or yellow blotched with purple. Time.—June. Hab.—South of France, Spain, Portugal,
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