Tab. 7590. 



CROCUS Malyi. 



Native of Dalmatia. 



Nat. Ord. Teide^:. — Tribe Moejse k. 

 Genus Crocus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook./. Gen. Plant, vol. ifi. p. 693.) 



Crocus (Involucrati) Malyi ; cormo brevi oblate pyriforme, tunicas fibria 

 filiformibus parallelis paulo infra apices reticularis, vaginis spatha bre- 

 vioribus, foliis glabris i-^-poll. latis florentibus tabum corollas paullo 

 superantibus maturis pedalibus, corollas tubo 3-pollicari albo, fauce 

 flavida intus pilis aurantiacis barbata, limbi segmentis l^-poll. longis 

 albis, staminibus aurantiacis, antheris qnam filamenta duplo longioribus, 

 stylo aurantiaco ultra apices filamentoruin 3-fido, lobis fissis, capsula f -polL 

 longa, seminibus rufo-brunneis. 



C. Malyi, Visiani, Fl. Dalmat. Suppl. p. 181. Maw in Gard. Chron. 1881, 

 vol. ii. p. 303 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xix. (1882) pp. 364, 372 ; Munog. 

 Gen. Crocus, p. 127, t. 18. Baker, Handb. of Irid. p. 83. The Garden, 

 vol. xxi. p. 67- 



A native of the Dalmatian mountains, Monte Vermay 

 and Monte Orjen, above the Bocco de Cattaro, alt. 7260 

 ft., where it was discovered by Herr Maly more than half 

 a century ago. It belongs, according to Maw's classifica- 

 tion, to the spring-flowering section of the involucrate 

 group of the genus, and to the sub-division having 

 the fibres of the tunics of the corm free, or reticulating 

 only in the upper part. In Mr. Baker's " Handbook," 

 where the species are arranged under three sections, 

 according as the style-arms are entire or more or less 

 cleft, it is placed in the section Holostigma, in which these 

 are entire ; but I think it should preferably be placed under 

 Odontostigma, in which they are variously cleft, though not 

 cut into the capillary lobes of sect. Schizostigma. The 

 general aspect of the plant is that of C. vernus, from which 

 it differs in the bright golden throat of the perianth, and 

 the parallel fibres of the corm tunic. 



The Royal Gardens are indebted for corms of this species 



to Mr. Maw, who, when preparing his most beautiful 



Monograph of the genus (published in 1886) presented and 



planted with his own hand in the herbaceous grounds, a 



April 1st, 1898. 



