Tas. 6031. 
CROC US Oxtviert. 
Native of Greece. 
Nat. Ord. Intpem.—Tribe Ixiez. 
Genus Crocus, Tourn. ; (Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 647). 
Crocus Olivier’; cormis mediocribus globosis, tunicis membranaceis brunneis 
basin versus fibrosis fibris parallelis, foliis 4—5 flores superantibus 
¢ poll. diam., marginibus lzvibus non recurvis, costa subtus prominula 
ciliolata, subtus glaucis, vaginis latis ex albo virescentibus, spatha 
2-valvi, corolla late aurantiaca, tubo 3-4 pollicari, limbi lobis obtusis 
extus basi 3-fasciatis, fauce glabra concolore, antheris pallide citrinis 
filamentis concoloribus longioribus, stigmatibus aurantiacis 2-3-fidis 
lobis elongatis. 
Crocus Olivieri, 7. Gay in Ferussae Bull. Se. Nat, vol. xv. p- 219 (Jan. 
1832); Kernicke in Flora 1856, p. 470. 
C. Aucheri, Boiss, Diagn. Pl. Or., vol. xiii. p. 138 (1867); Walp. Ann., 
vol. vi. p. 52. 
Originally detected in the Island of Scio in the Levant, 
y the French oriental traveller and botanist Olivier, from 
Whose collections it was described by M. Gay of Paris, 
1n whose notes to the original specimen (now preserved in 
the Kew Herbarium), he states that he does not see how it 
differs from a plant collected by the same traveller between 
Alep po and Mosul. Subsequently it was collected at Guenive 
in Asia Minor by Aucher Eloi, and described from thence as 
=, WoW Species by Boissier (0. Aucheri). More recently still 
it has been gathered in the Abies region of Attica in Greece, 
at elevations of 1-3500ft, by Professor Orphanides ; and by 
eldreich, amongst the melting snows of Mount Parmes, 
owermng in the month of March. As a species it is most 
nearly allied to @ mesiacus, Gawler, Tab. nost. 1111, (C. 
inbett, Lamk., C. lageneflorus, Salisb., C. aureus, Smith, Tab. 
APRIL Ist, 1873, 
