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Cereoid-UR12 wrote:
Not a Ledebouria. The flowers are not orchid-like and they have all six
tepals recurved.

More likely its a Lachenalia.
Its a big genus with many species and cultivars now in cultivation.
Many of the species have maculate leaves.

http://www.bulbsociety.com/GALLERY_O...S/Lachenalia/L
achenalialist.html

Thanks for the link. Dunno about Iris's plant, but mine looks very much
like Ledebouria revoluta pictured there (click on the image of the raceme
to see a bigger pic with leaves). The Lachenalias seem to have much more
showy flowers. I'll have to take a magnifying glass to the flowers on my
plant tonight! (Replace Lachenalia with Ledebouria in above URL or just
browse the site, but wait until you've gotten all your work done first.)

http://images.google.com/images?q=la...en&btnG=Google
+Search

Both genera are primarily African but Ledebouria is also found on Socotra,
the Arabian peninsula and in India.

According to one of the Ledebouria links, there's even a Chinese species.
Also, Ledebouria violacea seems to have been renamed L.socialis, or
L.sociaris according to a Japanese site. ;-)