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opaca. Ovaria oblongo-ovoidea, flavo-viren- 

 tia, horizontaliter exserta, circum stigma 

 album atropurpurea. Antherae connectivum 

 haud prominulum. Organa neutra laete- 

 purpurea, mox vero livescentia, inferiora 

 3 — 4-cycla, bulb is verruculosis, superiora 

 subdicycla, bulbis manifestius-verruculosis. 

 — Asia minor. Mersine. Kotschy. - v. v. 

 cultum, ah amicissimo Kotschyo 1859 com- 

 municatum. 

 4. Dioscoridis Smith. (Prodr. Fl. Graec. 11. 

 p. 245. 1813.) Tuber rotundatum, depres- 

 sum. Petiolus spathifer breviter-vaginatus. 

 Lamina fol. hastata 1. sagittata. Pedunculus 

 petiolo brevior. Spathae tubus intus albus; 

 lamina lanceolato-obbmga, acuminata, pur- 

 purea, maculis nigro-purpureis lentiformi- 

 bus, distinctis in apicem usque maculata. 

 Spadix spatha brevior. Appendix breviter- 

 slipitata; stipite subcylindraceo, laevi , niti- 

 dulo, plumbeo-violascente; clava elongata, 

 crassula, teretiuscula, paulo stipite cras- 

 siore, atroviolacea, opaca, scabridula. Ova- 

 ria ovoidea, flaventia, horizontaliter exserta, 

 circum stigma (aurantiacum?) atropurpurea. 

 Antherae connectivum haud prominulum, 

 macula coerulescente indicatum. Organa 

 neutra sordide- flaventia 1. purpurantia in- 

 terior et superiora oligocycla bulbis ver- 

 ruculosis, subulis violascentibus. Asia minor 

 etc. Ileldreich etc. — v . v. cult et s. in 

 piurim i $ spechnimhua . 



