11. CROCUS OCHROLEUCUS. 



Section: Involucrati; parallelo-fibrosi (Herbert): Odontostigma; autumnal (Baker J. 



Crocus ochroleucus, Boiss. & Blanche in Boiss. Diag. Ser. 2, iv, p. 93; Tchihatcheff, Asie Min. part iii, 

 Bot., vol. ii, p. 521; J. D. Hooker in Bot. Mag. tab. 5297; Baker, Rev. Sp. Crocus in Gard. Chron! 

 1873, p. 1466; List of Crocuses in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. Lond., new ser., vol. iv, 1877- and Syst 

 Iridac. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., xvi, p. 84; G. Maw, Synops. Genus Crocus in Gard. Chron. new 

 series, vol. xvi, p. 235; in The Garden, vol. xxi, No. 532, P- 66; and Hist. Crocus in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, Bot., vol. xix, p. 372; Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. v, part i, p. 98. 



Cormus oblatus, circiter 1 poll. (0.025 metr.) latus et i poll. (0.013 metr.) altus; tunica fibro-membra- 

 nacea tenuissima. Vagina; quam spatha breviores. Folia glabra, i poll. (0.0032 metr.) lata, ad 

 florationem ad faucem producta, in vere circiter pedalia (0.300 metr.). Spatha valvis 1—2 membra- 

 naceis confecta. Spatha basalis insigniter longa, vaginis superans. Perianthium: tuba pallide 

 flava; faux barbatula splendide aurantiaca; segmenta circa i£ poll. (0.038 metr.) longa, £ poll. 

 (0.013 metr.) lata, lactea, apud faucem flava. Antherag et pollen lacteal, filamenta flava. Stylus in 

 mediis antheris fissus, stigmata gracilia denticulata aurantiaca, raro ramosa, nonnunquam antheras 

 superantia. 



Com oblate, about twice as broad as high, an inch (0.025 metre) broad, and half an inch (0.013 metre) 

 high. Tunic of fine parallel fibres ; the Cap fibro-membranous, produced as a bunch of fibres half 

 an inch (0.013 metre) above the corm summit. Basal Tunic of fine radiating fibres. 



Sheathing Leaves about six, from half an inch (0.013 metre) to two and a half inches (0.063 metre) 

 in length, the three innermost of nearly equal length, and foliaceous at the extremity, falling short 

 of the proper spathe. 



Proper Leaves from four to six, glabrous, appearing before the flowers and reaching to the throat at the 

 flowering-time, produced in the spring to a length of ten or twelve inches (0.250—0.300 metre) 

 nearly one-eighth of an inch (0.0032 metre) wide; the keel convex, two-thirds the width of the 

 blade, the lateral channels wide and open. 



Basal •Spathe 'from two to three inches (0.050-0.075 metre) in length, ligulate, tubular at the base only. 

 Proper Spathe diphyllous, occasionally monophyllous, membranous, about an inch and a half (0.038 

 metre) in length. v J 



