■ 

 53. CROCUS OLIVIEKI. 



Section: Nudiflori; parallelo-fibrosi (Herbert): Odontostigma?; vernal (Baker). 



rW Kr?n>r 7,i;, ¥ l in F o n l SS - B " 1L Sc - Nat ' voLxxv - P- 5'9 (**9>; and drawing Iiibl. 1 I) Hooker- 

 Korn ck,- ,n flora ,856 p +7 o; Tcluhatcheff, Asie Min., part i,i, Bot., vol. iif p. 522 |) Hooker 



List ?nn S; ' 73 ' "p ^'' Bake /' Rev - Sp. Crocus in Gird. Chron., nev? ser., 7 7 p 5" 



Soc §3 vol L7d t c\? C - L ,° nd - n 7 S6r -' ^ iV ' ' 877; and S - VSt Iridac - in J- - Linn! 

 ■innTr P ' 3 ,' MaW ' byn ° pS - Genus Crocus in Gard - Chro »-. new ser., vol xvi n 



ItZmB^i^S/^^i^ ,» d Hi "' Crocu! ta ,0 "™ ^ s °- B °'- ; °' : 



e - 'r^s^i.^frfesS 1 " 1 ' 8 ?' Hisi ' croa,s ' * »■ ""■ '■ »■ »■>"■■ '■"'- j«r- h »"- 



7 C Aucherii Boiss. Diag. sef. i, ttih, p. 16. 



i: «,l/,l„r,t„, (not C. sulplmm,,, Griseb., which is C. ,h,-l«, Herbert- not C ,„/»/„„„, K., 

 p $-7. ' ^ ' f " m °' ° •""""' Sib ' h ' i "" i Smi ' h '' Kla..,'Re™,Ti'<l ™„ fin^T'JS? 





/V^,- Leaves three or four, appearing with the flowers and reaching to the level of the flowers at the 



channels wide and open, the margins of the keel and blade ciliated ' 



^operSpathe diphyllous, about an inch and a half (0.038 metre) in length, reaching to the throat. 



fefcoft ", KtaS \ ha ' f l ? tW H°/ nCh r eS ^-^S-o-oso metre) in length from the ovary to 

 Liic mi oat. y/j/oa/ glabrous. Segments obtuse, from an inch to an inch and a ouarter Co n,c 

 metre) long, and about a third of an inch (0.008+ metre) broad, bright orange ( S 



0.032 



