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Periaiitli-tube much exserted ; segments 1-lh in. long, uustriped, 

 creamy white ; throat bright yellow, slightly pubescent. Anthers 

 cream-coloured, about as long as the yellow filaments. Style- 

 branches slender, orange-yellow, little divided. 



Hab. Lebanon, Cai'mel, and otlier mountains of Syria and Palestine; 

 flowering from the end of October to December. 



47. C. vALLicoLA Herb, in Bot. Eeg. xxxiii. t. 16, fig. 3 ; Maw, 

 Mouogr. t. 2. — Corm globose, h in. diam. ; tunics membranous. 

 Basal spathe present. Leaves about 5 to a tuft, not produced till 

 after the flowers, very narrow, with reflexed edges and a white baud. 

 Proper spathe monophyllous. Perianth tube much exserted; seg- 

 ments cream-coloured, unstriped, suft'used with feathered purple 

 veins, distinctly cuspidate, marked with two small orange spots at 

 the bearded throat. Anthers white, much exceeding the filaments. 

 Style-branches short, cream-white, little divided. Seeds dull buff. 



Var. C. SuwAHROviANus K. Koch in Linnaea, xxi. 683. C. 

 Zuhrabi Maw. — Proper spathe very short, diphyllous. Perianth- 

 segments longer than in the type, less acute ; throat glabrous. 



Hab. Caucasus and mountains of Armenia, alt. 6000 — 7000 ft. ; flowering 

 in August and September. 



Section III. Schizostigma. Vernal. 



48. C. viTELLiNus Wahl. in Isis, xvi. 106 ; Baker in Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6416 ; Maw, Monogr. t. 50. C. si/riacus Boiss. et Gaill. — Corm 

 ovoid, ^— I in. diam. ; tunics membranous, showing matted fibres 

 towards the base. Basal spathe absent. Leaves 4-6 to a tuft, as 

 high as the flowers, narrow linear, with recurved edges and a white 

 band. Proper spathe diphyllous. Perianth-tube shortly exserted ; 

 segments f-1 in. long, orange-} ellow, the outer tinged with brown 

 on the outside. Anthers yellow, a little shorter than the yellow 

 papillose filaments. Style-branches orange or orange-red, divided 

 into many capillary branches. 



Var. C. GRAVEOLENs Boiss. & Reut. Fl. Orient, v. 107. C. 

 si/riacus Baker. C. I a (j erne fi or us var. ? si/tiacus Herb. — Leaves 

 narrower. Outer segments of the perianth flushed with black or 

 furnished with three distinct stripes of black down the back, — 

 Aleppo. 



Hab. Cicilian Taurus, Syria and Northern Palestine ; flowering from the 

 end of November into February. 



49. C. Balans.e Gay in Balans. Exsic. 1854, No. 34 ; Maw, 

 Mono jr. t. 51. — Bulb ovoid, f in. diam ; tunics of matted parallel 

 fibres. Basal spathe absent. Leaves 2-4 to a tuft, as higli as the 

 flowers, Jj ^^' broad at the flowering time, with reflexed edges and 

 a white band. Proper spathe diphyllous. Perianth-tube little 

 exserted ; segments f-lj in. long, orange-yellow, the outer more or 

 less flushed with brown on the back ; throat concolorous, glabrous. 

 Anthers orange, a little longer than the papillose yellow filaments. 

 Style-branches orange, cut into many capillary segments. Seeds 

 bright red. 



Hab. Hills near Smvrna ; flowering in March. 



