32. CROCUS VELUCHENSIS. 



Section: Nudiflori; reticulati (Herbert): Holostigma; vernal (Baker). 



Crocus veluchensis, (not C. veluchensis of Baker, in Bot. Mag. tab. 6107, which is C. banaticus, Heuftel,) 

 Herbert, in Bot. Reg. 1845, vol. xx.xi, Misc. 72; 1847, vol. xxxiii, tab. 4, fig. 3; and Hist. Crocus, 

 sp. 27, p. 28; from Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond., vol. ii, p. 274; G. Maw, Synops. Genus Crocus in Gard. 

 Chron., new ser., vol. xvi, p. 462; in The Garden, vol. xxi, No. 532, p. 68; and Hist. Crocus in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xix, p. 373; Boiss. Fl. Orient., vol. v, part i, p. 103. 



C. Sieberi, var. veluchensis, Baker, Rev. Sp. Crocus in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 542; List Crocus in Journ. 

 R. Hort. Soc. Lond., new ser., vol. iv, 1877; and Syst. Iridac. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xvi, 

 p. 82. 



C. balcanensis, Janka, PI. Nov. Turc. Brev., p. 8. 



C. thessalus, (not C. thessalus, Boiss. Diag. ser. i, xiii, p. 17, which is C. Sieberi, Gay), Janka, exsic. 

 Kalofer Thrace. 



?C. Pallasii, (not C. Pallasii M. B.), Griseb. Spic Fl. Rumel. 



C. nivalis, Sprunner, exsic. 



Cormus \ — J- poll. (0.0084 — 0.013 nietr.) latus, i poll. (0.013 metr.) altus. Tunicse fibri tenues dissoluti 

 reticulati, ad apicem cormi in fasciculo cuspidum fibrosorum, i poll. (0.0084 metr.) longa. Vagina 

 quam spatha breviores. Folia circiter 3, * poll. (0.0050 metr.) lata, ad florationem (in Maio) fauce 

 superantia, carina angusta glabra, canaliculis lateralibus, latis, apertis. Spatha diphylla, fauce poll, 

 brevior. Perianthium: faux purpurea, intus alba, barbata; segmenta omnino splendide purpurea, 

 1 i— J i P "- (0.038 — 0.044 metr.) longa, i- poll. (0.013 metr.) lata. Anthera aurantiacse filamentis 

 albis ajquantes. Stylus ad apices antherarum fissus. Stigmata compacta fimbriata aurantiaca, antheras 

 superantia. 



Conn (wild specimen) from a third of an inch (0.0084 metre) to half an inch (0.013 metre) broad, and 

 half an inch (0.013 metre) high. Tunic of fine reticulated fibre, produced at the summit into a 

 bunch of fibres about a third of an inch (0.0084 metre) high. 



■Shea I king Leaves three or four, falling short of proper spathe, from half an inch (0.013 metre) to two 

 inches (0.050 metre) high. 



Proper Leaves three, reaching above the level of the throat at the flowering-time in May, one-fifth of an 

 inch (0.0050 metre) broad, glabrous, the keel one-fifth the width of the blade, the lateral channels 

 broad and open. 



Proper Spathe diphyllous, about two inches (0.050 metre) in length, exceeding the sheathing leaves, and 

 reaching nearly to the throat. 



Perianth: Tube two, to two and a half inches (0.050 — 0.063 metre) in length from the ovary to the 



