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broken up into many small imbi-icated segments. Basal spatlie 

 absent. Leaves 8-4 to a tuft, as high as the flowers, very narrow, 

 with reflexed edges and a white band. Proper spathe very short, 

 diphyllous. Perianth-tube much exserted ; segments about an inch 

 long, white, concolorous or the outer with 3-5 distinct stripes of 

 lilac down the back ; throat yellow, glabrous. Anthers white, 

 about as long as the yellow papillose filaments. Style-branches 

 bright yellow, overtopping the anthers, cut into capillary segments. 



Hab. Greek mountains and the Cyclades, from sea-level up to 2500 ft. ; 

 flowering from October to December. 



59. C. CANCELLATus Herb, in Bot. Mag. sub t. 3864 ; Maw, 

 Monogr. t. 31. C. Schimperi Gay. C. niuUjionts Sibth. & Sm., 

 excl. syn. C. Spruneri Boiss. et Held. C. mazziariais, damasceus 

 and Katschijanus Herb. C. pylurum Gay. C. ciiivius Kotschy. C. 

 edulis Boiss. et Blanche. — Corm globose, 1 in. diam. ; tunics of 

 coarsfly-honeycombed fibres, produced at the top in a ring of 

 bristles. Basal spathe absent. Leaves not usually developed till 

 after the flowering time, finally a foot long, narrow linear, with 

 reflexed edges and a white band. Proper spathe diphyllous. 

 Perianth-tube much exserted ; segments 1-li- in. long, varying 

 from white to pale lilac and dark lilac, not distinctly striped ; throat 

 usufdly yellow, glabrous. Anthers yellow, twice the length of the 

 white filaments. Style-branches orange, much overtopping the 

 anthers ; divided into many capillary segments. Seeds large, red. 



Hab. Greece and the Ionian Islands, through Asia Minor and Syria to 

 Armenia and the North-west of Persia ; flowering to October and December. 

 Very variable, the European plant being usually white, and the Asiatic forms 

 pale or deep lilac. Gay's name, Schimperi, given in 1835, is six years older than 

 Herbert's cancellatus, but was not accompanied with a diagnosis. 



60. C. BiEDius Balbis, Add. Pedem. 83 ; Bot. Reg. xxi. t. 37, 

 fig. 5 ; Moggr. Curt. Mentone, t. 20 ; Maw, Monogr. t. 27. — Corm 

 globose, f-1 in. diam. ; tunics of moderately stout unmatted fibres, 

 produced into short bristles at the top. Basal spathe present. 

 Leaves not produced till spring, 2-3 to a tuft, finally a foot or more 

 long, ^-^ in. broad. Proper spathe very long, mouophyllous. 

 Perianth-tube much exserted ; segments 1|— 2 in. long, bright lilac, 

 paler towards the base ; throat whitish, glabrous. Anthers pale 

 orange, twice the length of the yellow filaments. Style-branches 

 scarlet, divided into many capillary branches. Seeds ovoid, orange. 



Hab. Mountains of the Eiviera, from Mentone to Genoa, ascending to 

 4000 ft. Flowers in October. 



81. C. NUDiFLOKUs Smith in Eng. Bot. t. 491 ; edit. 3, t. 1500; 

 Maw, Monogr. t. 6. C. multijidus Ramond. C. speciosus Wils. in 

 Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2752, non M. B. C. pi/renmis (Parkins.) Herb. 

 — Corm very small, globose, copiously stoloniferous ; tunics mem- 

 branous. Basal spathe present. Leaves 3-4 to a tuft, not developed 

 till after the flowers, mature in spring, very narrow, with reflexed 

 edges and a white band. Proper spathe 4-6 in. long, monophyllous. 

 Perianth-tube much exserted; segments plain lilac, H-2 in. long; 

 throat concolorous, glabrous. Anthers yellow, large, more than 



