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4° 20' east. I am not aware of any record of its occurrence in the island of Ivica, 

 or on the Spanish mainland. It generally occurs at low elevations in woods and 

 heathy thickets. In Majorca it has been recorded from Bellver, Bendinat, Esporlas, 

 eight miles N.N.W. of Palma, Galatzo, Teix, Lluch, (? Lluchmayor, sixteen miles 

 S.E. of Palma), Puix Torrella, and at Andraitx, where I gathered it in a wood of 

 Pinus halepensis, one mile south of the village. In Minorca it occurs at Binisarmina, 

 opposite Port Mahon — -where, in company with the late Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, I 

 again gathered it in the spring of 1879, out °f flower. It has been recorded also 

 from Otono, La Mola, San Antonio, Mezquita, Adaya, Forma-nou en Mahon, Santa 

 Ponsa (Ponza) en Alayor, Algayrens, Santa Ana, and Santa Galdana en Ciudadela 

 in Minorca. 



In its native habitats it is an autumn-flowering species; but in cultivation is 

 very variable in the time of its flowering, commencing in September, and continuing 

 to flower to the end of March. It is a very diminutive species, both in stature and 

 in the size of the flowers, and has no near ally. Cambessedes erroneously recorded 

 its occurrence in Corsica. 



REFERENCES TO PLATE XIII. 



Figs. 1. and 2. Flowering-state, October, actual size. 



Fig. 3. Outer surface of outer segment, magnified two-fold. 



Fig. 4. Outer surface of inner segment, magnified two-fold. 



Fig. 5. Fruiting-state, end of May, actual size. 



Figs. 6. and 7. Stamens and Pistil, magnified two-fold. 



Fig. 8. Stigmata, magnified six-fold. 



Fig. 9. Pollen Grain, magnified one hundred and fifty-fold. 



Fig. 10. Diagrammatic dissection of scape, ovary, and spathes, actual size. 



Fig. 11. .Section of leaf, magnified twelve-fold. 



Fig. 12. Corm tunic, magnified two-fold. 



Fig. 13. Seed, magnified six-fold. 



