TAB. O21LE 
CROCUS WELDENI. 
Native of Dalmatia. 
Nat. Ord. Intoace#.—Tribe I[xtes. 
Genus Crocus, Linn. (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1873). 
Crocus Weldent; vernalis, cormi tunicis membranaceis supra basin circumscissis, 
spatha basali nulla, foliis 4-5 synanthiis angustis vittatis margine revolutis, 
spathe  proprie valvis oppositis lanceolatis, perianthii tubo albo, limbi 
segmentis oblongis facie albis, exterioribus dorso purpureo tinctis nullo 
modo striatis, fauce glabra concolori, antheris citrinis, filamentis brevibus 
albis glabris, stigmatibus integris fulvis. 
C. Weldeni, (Hoppe ?), Bot. Zeit., 1840, p. 208; J. Gay, Herb. 
C. biflorus, Visiani, Fl. Dalm., i., 119, non Miller. 
C. annulatus, var. albus, Herbert in Journ, Hort. Soc., vol. ii., p. 208. 
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This can scarcely be considered as more than a variety of 
Crocus biflorus, with which it agrees in time of flowering, 
leaves, and corm-structure. The flower is less showy than 
those of either the old garden diflorus or the two wild Italian 
varieties (Wineatus and pusillus), being entirely without stripes, 
concolorous at the throat, and white, except that the three 
outer segments are marked on the outside with a more or less 
decided hue of slaty-purple. It is a native of the limestone 
hills of Dalmatia, flowering in January and February. In 
our English gardens it does not expand till March. The 
drawing was made from specimens that flowered at Kew in 
1874, which were presented to the garden by the Rey. H. 
Harpur-Crewe, who received it from Trieste from Major 
R. F. Burton. 
Drscr. Vernal. Corm globose, the numerous membranous 
tunics slitting off just above the base, and sliced into lanceo- 
late teeth at the top. Basal spathe none. Leaves four to 
five, contemporary with the flower, very narrow, distinctly 
vittate. Proper spathe of two equal lanceolate valves. 
Tube of perianth white, one and a half to two inches long ; 
segments of limb oblong, about an inch deep, white inside, 
Ferrvary Ist, 1876. 
