Covet. 
g (Eat El) 
1193 
CRÖCUS Imperäti. 
Imperato’s Crocus. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. IRIDACEZ. 
CROCUS. Supra, vol. 17. fol. 1416, 
C. Imperati; tunicis radicalibus membranaceo-filamentosis, foliis roteranthiis 
im vaginifero, spathä 
glaucescentibus basi latioribus deflexis, scapo supra basi 
duplici opacà, corolle tubi campanulati laciniis ovalibus obtusis emarginatis, 
fauce nudà aurantiacà, stigmate incluso trifido staminibus longiore lobis 
cuneiformibus incisìs crenulatis, capsulà oblongà acuminatà 6-striatà, semi- 
nibus fulvis reticulato-erosis altero latere excavatis. Tenore syllog. p. 28. 
For the specimens of this charming plant I am indebted 
to the Hon. W. F. Strangways, who has furnished me with 
the following note upon it. 
** Crocus Imperati, so named by Professor Tenore, after an 
old Italian Botanist Imperato, is, perhaps, the most beautiful 
of the genus. It varies greatly in the size of the flower, 
which is sometimes very large, and rises from a double 
spathe; the bulb, which is covered with irregularly inter- 
woven fibres, is comparatively small. 
* Although it belongs properly to the set of vernal cro- 
cuses, it seems to connect them with the autumnal, beginning 
to flower in the middle of winter. It is fortunate that, flower- 
ing at such a season, it requires less sun to expand its blos- 
soms than any other species. — | : 
“ It increases readily È y seed, 
The diffuse character of its leaves, wh 
done flowering, than for those o 
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