desire I have named it after our common friend, Mr. Crewe, 
whose collection of Croci is the richest in Europe. 
Duscr. Corm the size of a hazel-nut, ovoid-globose ; tunics 
very smooth, truncate and split at the base, the outer suc- 
cessively shorter, so that they seem to imbricate downwards ; 
the outermost constricted at the top into a short toothed 
sheath; texture very close, with no appearance of reticula- 
tions. Leaves two only, two to three inches long, slender, 
equalling or slightly exceeding the flower; midrib broad and 
prominent ; upper surface with a distinct white line. Proper 
spathes two, outer enfolding the leaves ; inner narrow, linear. 
Flower solitary. Perianth-tube one to two inches long, very 
slender, white, with six purple stripes; limb one and a half 
inches broad, white ; segments oblong-lanceolate, acute, the 
outer with three fimbriate purple stripes on the back, the 
inner not streaked ; throat bright-yellow, glabrous. Filaments 
short, yellow, equalling the slender purple anthers, which are 
a quarter of an inch long, and reach half-way up the limb. 
Stigmas slender, orange-yellow, undivided.—./. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Section of tunics of corm; 2, ditto of leaf seen from the back; 3, 
styles :—all magnified. 
