45. CROCUS ALATAVICUS. 



Section: Nudiflori; parallelo-fibriosi (Herbert): Holostigma; vernal (Baker). 



Crocus alatamcw Regel and Semenow, in Regel's PI. Semenovians, iv, No. .036, Bull, de Mosc ,86 Q - 



Plant "nov P 8 X\ P - "'' f S tJ n ? arte F fl0ra " l877 ' P - 103 > tab - 906 > & f = -d e Descriptione 9 s 

 riant, JNov ,877 i-asc. v, p. 46; and i8 79 , Fasc. vn, p. 2,2; Baker in Gard. Chron new ser 



xvTTV, r If Febr TK y r 3Td l I878 ', P - 234; and S ^ St Iridac - in J° urn - L -n- Soc ' Bot, voi! 

 f P- 8 * ; G - * Iaw ln Th £ Garden, vol. xvi, num. 364, p. 420; plate cliii; vol. xxi, num. 532, p. 68 



Soc?Bot, vol xix'p. 373 " neW Ser " V0L XVi ' P - 559; and Hist Crocus in J° urn - Linn! 



? C. Sieberi, var., Baker, List Crocus in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. Lond., new ser., vol. iv ,877 

 Var. ochroleucus, (not C ochroleucus Boiss. and Blanche) Baker in Gard. Chron., February 23rd ,878 



p. 234. fi, a /bus, Kegel, Descnptiones Plant., Nov. 1879, Fasc. vii p 212 7 



ty^wP**' Bak6r ' figUrCd !n The Gard6n ' Plate CHii ' iS the ' ater and faded condition of the 



Cormus oblatus *_* poll. 0.0.3-0.019 metr.) latus, J poll. (0.013 metr.) altus. Tunica fibris parallelis 

 membrana tenm commixtis. Vaginae quam spath* breviores. Scapi plures. Folia 6-9 ad flora 

 tionem visa, matura pedaha (0.300 metr.), ^ poll. (0.0016 metr.) lata, marginibus carina? et lam°n* 

 ciliolatis, carina lata, quam lamma triente angustior. Spatha diphylla, qu°am faux ifnol 1. (0T3I 



me r laT^h Penanth ' um ; >* ^^ flaVa| S6 ° menta * P°"- V-ojS metr.) longa, J poll, o.'o 3 

 metr.) lata, a ba, segmenta tna extenora extus obscure purpureo ornata vel pal ide ochrea Anthers 

 aurannaoe, hlamenta auranfaca superantes. Stylus auranriacus ad basin vel in medio antherarum 



ochrea, SS%S"SiS. "^ "^ "^ ^^ ^ <**»*> ^' S ^ 



Com (from half an inch (0.013 metre) to three-quarters of an inch (0.0,9 metre) broad, and about half 

 an inch (0.0.3 metre) high. Tunic of parallel fibres combined with thin membrane 



Shea t\i^r S A° nt fiV6 ' fr ° m haIf an inCh ( °- 013 metre ) t0 three and a half i^hes (0.088 metre) 

 in length, enclosing one or more scapes. * "^uc; 



Pr ° Pe L wf/T S 1 X £ ninC ' jUSt a PP ear j. n & with the flowers, and produced to a foot (0.300 metre) 



L wf? at . m . atu " t y> .one-sixteenth of an inch (0.00,6 metre) broad, ciliated on the mar^ns of 



the blade and keel; the keel more than half the width of the blade. margins 01 



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

 omSbnTar 11111 " mCH and a Half (0 -° 38 metrL ' } ° f tL thr ° at > the inner spSigXe, 'the 



Peria tllJ Wh ? { ° m , in l heS ( °- ,0 ° , mCtre J ) in lenffth from the ovar >' to the throat. Throat unbearded 

 ilj- wF Un l S ab ° Ut an r lnch f a nd a half (0.038 metre) long, and half an inch (o. ,7 metre) 



JriSSo^osa ^n the outer segments rreckied and obsciirei >' f — d ^ S3 



