5. CROCUS KARDUCHORUM. 



Section: Involucrati ; membranacei {Herbert): Schizostigma; autumnal {Baker). 



Crocus karduchorum, Kotschy, Iter. Cilico-Karducum, 1859. No. 469, Exsic. Plantoe ex montibus calcariis, 

 Karduchias; G. Maw in Gard. Chron. 1879, p. 234; Synops. Genus Crocus in Gard. Chron. new 

 series, vol. xvi, p. 234; Hist. Crocus in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xix, p. 372; and in The Garden, 

 vol. xxi, No. 532, p. 66; Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. v, p. 99. 



Crocus zonalus, in part, Baker, Rev. Sp. Crocus in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 143 j . 



Crocus Kotschy anus, in part, Baker, List of Crocuses in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. Lond. new ser., vol. iv, 

 1877; and Syst. Iridac. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., xvi, p. 83. 



Cormus parvus, altitudine latitudine subrequante; tunica tenuis fibro-membranacea, apice in fasci cuspi- 

 dum acutarum producto. Vagina; spatha subsequantes. Folia insigniter parva breviaque iA- — z 

 poll. (0.038' — 0.050 metr.) longa, -^ poll. (0.0013 metr.) lata, foliis annotinis ad florationem au- 

 tumnalem permanentibus. Spatha monophylla, circiter 1 poll. (0.025 metr.) alta. Perianthiumr 

 tuba longe e vaginis et spatha exserta; faux haud barbata, cum segmentis vineo-lilacinis concolo: 

 apparet. Hcec 1 ad 1^ poll. (0.025 — 0.032 metr.) sunt. Antherse lacteag, longitudinem filamentorum 

 duplicantes. Stylus prope apicem antherarum fissus, acervum ramorum capillaceorum stigmaticorum 

 lacteorum fert. 



Corm nearly spherical, from half an inch (0.013 metre) to two-thirds of an inch (0.017 metre) broad 

 and high. Tunic a thin delicate membrane, interspersed with fine nearly parallel fibres; the Cap 

 produced into a bunch of fibro-membranous points reaching about half an inch (0.013 metre) above 

 the summit of the corm. 



Sheathing Leaves from four to five, the two or three innermost nearly equal, and about an inch (0.025 

 metre) in height, nearly equalling the proper spathe. 



Proper Leaves glabrous, dormant at the autumnal flowering-time, produced in the spring to a length of 

 from one and a half to two inches (0.038 — 0.050 metre), very narrow, one-twentieth of an inch 

 (0.0013 metre) broad, persistent till the ensuing flowering-time, when the two years' sets of leaves 

 exist together. 



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