Tas. 5297. 
CROCUS OCHROLEUCUS. 
Cream-coloured Crocus. 
Nat. Ord. IntpE#.—TRIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum superum, infundibuliforme ; ¢uéo elongato ; 
lim}i sexpartiti laciniis interioribus paulo minoribus, erecto-patentibus. Sta- 
mina 8, fauci perigonii inserta, erecta, inclusa; jfilamenta filiformia; anthere 
sagittate basifixe. Ovarivm inferum, obtuse trigonum. Ovula plurima in locu- 
lorum angulo centrali biseriata, adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis, elon- 
gatus; stigmata 3, dilatata, cuneata, carnosa, apicibus cucullata et denticulata. 
Capsula membranacea, trigona, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plu- 
rima, subglobosa; festa coriacea, carnosula, ad umbilicum rugulosa; raphe tenui 
ad chalazam apicalem excurrente. Hmbryo axilis, albumine corneo multo brevior, 
extremitate radiculari umbilicum spectante, infera—Herbe in Europa et Asia 
media et in regione Mediterranea indigene, acaules ; foliis anguste linearibus ; 
floribus radicalibus magnis speciosis ; ovariis subhypogeis ; nonnulle ob peculiares 
stigmatum qualitates etiam culte. Endl. 
Crocus ochroleucus ; tunicis radicalibus tenuiter membranaceis fuscis, vaginis 
ternis elongatis inequalibus, foliis synanthiis latiusculis glabris, scapo elon- 
gato nudo, spatha diphylla acuminata vaginis plerumque inclusa, perigonii 
tubo limbo duplo longiore, fauce flavida glabra, laciniis ellipticis obtusis pal- 
lide ochroleucis, antheris albidis, styli divisionibus longis apice dilatato 
breviter denticulatis. Boiss. 
Crocus ochroleucus. Boiss. et Gaillardot, in Boiss. Diagn. Plant. Nov. Orient. 
ser. 2. n. 4. p. 93. 
One would almost have supposed that the labours of the late 
Hon. and Rev. Wm. Herbert, among the species of the favourite 
genus Crocus, had exhausted the subject: but recent researches 
in the East, of M. Boissier and his botanical friends, have added 
six new species to our catalogue, among which is the present 
very elegant and delicate one. 
It was discovered by M. Gaillardot, “in cultis argillosis Li- 
bani, prope Scanderoun supra Sidonem,” flowering in the middle 
of December. Bulbs of the same species were collected by Dr. 
Hooker in October of 1861, in the same neighbourhood, that 
is, on the Anti-Lebanon. Being planted, and gently forced with 
_ FEBRUARY Ist, 1862. 
