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- Corcuicum ByzanTinuM. Broap-LEAvED 
CoLcHICUM. 
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Cla/s and Order. 
“HexanpriaA Mono- vel TRIGYNIA. 
Generic Charafter.—Vid. No. 1028, 
Specific Charader and Synonyms. - | 
COLCHICUM byzantinum (bulbo maximo, depreffo-globofo) 
foliis fubquinis, exterioribus duobus  brevi- 
oribus, recumbentibus, ovato-oblongis cum 
acumine, latiflimis, obiter in longum plicatim 
corrugatis, atro-virentibus ; floribus hecce 
diu pravenientibus, fubfucceflive numerofis 
. (vicenis vel pluribus). G._ bot es 
COLCHICUM byzantinum. Nobis fupra No. 1028. pag. alt. 
. in Spec. Synth. ; ee 
COLCHICUM latifolium byzantinum orvarb-mrahpvaro cum 
a — < frutu.  Cluf. Hil. 1.199, 200. cum Ic. 
; COLCHICUM byzantinum. Park. Par. 154, 155- 
~ COLCHICUM iatifolium polyanthes. 7. Bauh. Hift. 2. 655+ 
a \ 
Bulbs of this fpecies were received by Crusius, while at 
lenna, in 1598, from’ Conftantinople. It has never yet 
een taken up as a fpecies in any fyftematic enumeration of — 
Plants known tous. The bulb is the largeft, the leaves the © 
broadeft, and the flowers the moft numerous of any of the 
genus; the fize of the firft being equal to a man’s fift, the ~ 
breadth of the outermoft leaf meafuring fometimes near fix — 
Inches, and we have feen from fixteen to twenty flowersthrown _ 
UP in fucceffion, The filaments are alternately fhorter, and 
Marked on the outfide at the bafe with a tawny fpot.. The 
am : foliage 
