Tas. 6197. 
CROCUS vxetucHensis. 
Native of Greece and Transylvania. 
Nat. Ord. I[rn1pE&.—Tribe Ix1Ez, 
Genus Crocus, Tourn. (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1873). 
Crocus veluchensis ; vernalis, cormo globoso tunicis fibrosis subtiliter reticulatis, 
spatha basali nulla, foliis 3-6 synanthiis anguste linearibus albo-vittatis, 
spatha propria bivalvi, perianthii tubo limbum duplo superante, fauce con- 
colore pilosulo, segmentis 1-14 poll. longis obtusis violaceis spe apice albo 
maculatis, antheris luteis filamentos albos superantibus vel equilongis, 
stigmate aurantiaco ramis tribus clavato-petaloideis subintegris. 
Crocus veluchensis, Herbert in Bot. Reg., v. 31, Misc., p. 72; Bot. Reg., v. 33, 
tab. 4, fig. 4.; Journ. Hort.. Soc., New Series, v. 2., p. 274; Schur FU. 
Transyl., p. 652. 
C. thessalus, Boiss, et Sprun., Diag. Pl. Ortent., No. 13, p. 17. 
C. exiguus, Schur Fl. Transyl,, p. 652. 
_ Very near Crecus Sieberi (Tab. nost. 6036), from which 
it mainly differs by the throat of the perianth being con- 
colorous instead of bright yellow. It was discovered by 
Signor Vrioni whilst collecting for the late Dean Herbert on 
Mount Veluchi ( Tymphrestus), near the northern border of 
Greece (not the Morea, as inadvertently stated by Herbert 
in his final monograph of the genus in the Journal of the 
Horticultural Society), and has since been found on the 
Parnassus range, and in the mountains of Thessaly, Thrace, 
and Transylvania. The abrupt white tip to the otherwise 
purple perianth-segments, shown in the plant drawn in the 
Botanical Register, is not a specific character. We have 
lately received from Colonel Trevor Clarke a flower of @. 
vernus with perfectly similar coloration. 
C. veluchensis is still a very rare plant in cultivation. The 
plate was drawn from specimens sent by the Rev. H. Harpur 
Crewe, who received it from Herr Leichtlin. It flowers in 
spring at the same time as vernus and Sieberi. : 
Descr. Corms very small, globose, the outer tunics 
made up of finely-reticulated fibres, like those of C. vernus 
and Stieber’. Basal spathe absent. Leaves three to six, 
produced at the same time as the flowers, narrow linear, with 
November Isr, 1875, 
