THE GENUS CROCUS. 



Perianth ■ Tube about three and a half inches (0.088 metre) from the ovary to the throat pale buff. 



Throat orange, slightly bearded. Segments about an inch and a half (0.038 metre) in length, and 



half an inch (0013 metre) broad, pale cream-colour suffused with orange towards the base. 

 Stamens from three-quarters (0.019 metre) to seven-eighths of an inch (0.022 metreV high. Anthers 



white half an inch (0.013 metre) in length, exceeding or equalling the orange ■Filament. Pollen 



Grains -i~ of an inch (0.00008 metre) in diameter, glabrous, pale cream-coloured. 

 WWiZ about an inch (0.025 metre) in height from the throat; the style dividing at the level of the 



middle of the anthers, and produced Into entire or somewhat divided orange stigmata. The pistil 



is occasionally shorter than the stamens. 

 *rate at the flowering-time, from an inch and a half (0.038 metre) to two inches (0.050 metre) m height; 



one or more scapes, each having a separate basal spathe, within the same set of sheathmg-leaves. 



Capsule and Seed unknown. 



Crocus ochrokucus is a native of Northern Palestine and Syria; occurring between 

 32 I° and 3 6l° north latitude, and 35° 20' and 36*° east longitude, on Mount 

 Carmel es-Sahil Djedaide (Jedeideh), Anti-Libanus, about Saida, near Beyrout, Ain 

 Salam 'near Brummana, and elsewhere in the Lebanon, and in the neighbourhood 

 of Iskanderun (Skanderoun) ; flowering from October to the end of December, the 

 leaves appearing before, and with the flowers. It has no near ally; the corm is 

 exceptionally flat, quite twice as broad as high, the anthers white with an orange 

 filament, and the flowers pale cream-coloured with an orange throat. 



I am indebted to Mr. Loytved, the Danish Consul at Beyrout, and to Mr. Th. 

 Waldmerez, of the Society of Friends' Mission in Mount Lebanon, for liberal supplies 

 of the corms; and I have been enabled to successfully cultivate it. It is a highly 

 ornamental species in the late autumn, and flowers freely in the open air, but is 

 best grown to advantage under the protection of a cold frame. 



REFERENCES TO PLATE XI. 



Fig. 1. Flowering-state, October 26th, actual size. 



Fig. 2. Inner surface of segment, actual size. 



Fig. 3. Vernal state, May, actual size. 



Fig. 4. Diagrammatic dissection of scape, ovary, and spathes, actual size. 



Fig. 5. a, b, c, Stamens and Pistil, magnified two-fold. 



Fig. 6. Pollen Grain, magnified one hundred and fifty-fold. 



Fig. 7. Stigmata, magnified six-fold. 



Fig. 8. Section of leaf, magnified six-fold. 



Fig. 9. Corm tunics, magnified two-fold: d, cap; e, main tunic;/, basal tunic. 



