very complete collection of Croci, many of them collected 

 by himself during his various expeditions in the South of 

 Europe and North of Africa in search of bulbous plants. 

 It flowers annually in an open border in the month of 

 March. 



Descr. — Corms about three-fourths of an inch in 

 diameter, broadly pear-shaped; fibres of coat filiform, 

 parallel, reticulated below the summit. Sheaths below the 

 leaves six or seven. Leaves four to five, about one-fifth 

 of an inch broad, reaching to about the throat of the 

 flower, fruiting fifteen inches long, keel about one-fourth 

 the breadth of the blade, faces concave. Proper spathes 

 one or two. Flowering scape about two inches long. 

 Perianth-tube about three inches long, white or straw- 

 coloured, throat yellow, with a fringe of golden hairs 

 within at the base of the filaments ; lobes one and a half 

 inches long, white. Stamens orange-yellow, both filament 

 and anthers, the latter more than twice as long as the 

 anthers. Style orange-yellow, cleft from the tip down to 

 the position of the tips of the anthers, into three irregularly 

 toothed and cleft stigmas. Capsule three-fourths of an 

 inch long. Seeds about one-sixth of an inch Ions red- 

 brown.— J. D. H. 



fh51 g ; *' ,f e ? i0n ° f I eaf; 2 'P r °P er sheaths; 3 and 4, portions of perianth- 

 throat and stamens; 5, top of style and stigmas; 6, stigma -.-All enlarged 



