46. CROCUS CASPIUS. 



Section: Nudiflori; parallelo-fibrosi (Hubert): Odontostigma?; autumnal (Baker). 



Crocus caspius, Fischer and Meyer in Hohen. Enum. Talysch. p. 22; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, iv, p. no- Baker 

 Rev. Sp Crocus in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1466; List Crocus in Journ. R. Hort. Soc new ser ' 

 vol. iv, 1877; and Syst. Iridac. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xvi, p. 84; G. Maw, Svnops. Genus 

 Crocus m Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. xvi, p. 559; in The Garden, vol. xxi, No. 532, p. 68- and 

 Hist. Crocus m Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot, vol. xix, p. 373; Boiss., Fl. Orient, vol. v, part. ,, p. II0 . 



C. Boryanus in part, Herbert, Hist. Crocus, Sp. 43, p. 45; from Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond., vol. ii, p. 291. 



Cormus ovoideus *-f poll. (0.0.3-0.0,9 metr.) latus, i poll. (0.0,9 metr.) altus. Tunica membranacea 

 brunnea apud basin fibrosa; tunica basalis fibris brevibus radiatis confecta. Vagina? quam snathfe 

 breviores, vix ovarium superantes. Folia 4-5, glabra, angustissima, ^ poll. (0.0016 metr.) lata 

 flonbus in autumno aequantia. Spatha diphylla. Perianthium: faux aurantiaca, glabra, (parce 

 pubescens fide Baken). Segmenta alba versus faucem flavescentia, 1— ,1 poll. (0.02s— 00/2 metr 1 

 longa, i poll. (0.013 metr.) lata. Anthera pallidc flavse vel ochroleucie filamenta bis superantes 

 Stylus supra antheras fissus; stigmata angustissima patula integra flava antheras multo superantia 



Com ovoid, half an inch (0.0.3 metre) to three-quarters of an inch (0.0.9 metre) broad, and three- 

 quarters of an inch (0.019 metre) high. Tunic a rich brown membrane, fibres towards the bottom 

 Basal J mac ol short radiating fibres on a membranous base. 



Sheathing Leaves about four, from half an inch (0.0.3 metre) to two inches (0.050 metre) in length 

 scarcely reaching to the level of the ovary. ' 1L "o l "> 



Proper Leaves four or five, reaching to the level of the flowers at the flowering-time, one-sixteenth of 

 an inch (0.0016 metre) broad, glabrous. 



Proper Spa/he diphyllous, an inch and a half (0038 metre) in length, much exceeding the sheathing 

 leaves, and reaching to within an inch (0.025 metre) of the throat. ° 



Perianth: 7M, about two and a half inches (0.063 metre) in length from the ovary to the throat, yellow 

 Throat unbearded . (?) yellow. Segments an inch to an inch and a quarter '(0.025-0.032) metre 

 long, and one-third of an inch (0.0084 metre) broad, white, and yellowish towards the throat 



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