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TULIPA cornuta. 
Horned Tulip. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Liria. Jussieu gen. 48. (Ex nobis nunc rectiìs 
MELANTHACEIS Brown prod. 272 co-ordinunda. ) 
TULIPA. Flores terminales, nudi, solitarii, cauli sessiles, Cal O. 
Cor, infera, hexapetala, campanulato-patens, regularis, subaqualis, de- 
cidua. Fil. hypogyna, erecta, crassiús subulata: anth. oblonge, erecto- 
vibratiles. Germ. prismaticum. Stigmata apicibus compresso-compli- 
catis et varié reflexis valvarum germinis intüs adnata, canaliculata. Caps. 
oblouga, coriacea, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis medio septigeris, septis margine 
interna utrinque seminiferis: sem. numerosa, biseriatim cumulata, plana, 
incrassato-marginata, introrsüm attenuata; a/bumen corneum, 
Bulbus solidus ovato-pyramidatus, indusio crustaceo v. scarioso- 
membranaceo tectus, latere altero obliquate baseos radicans; altero anno 
post prolatum fructum enixus basi axeos rhizomatose propaginem similem 
Jfrugiferam cum aliis sterilibus in toto periturus. Folia caulina, subbifa- 
ria, 3-plura, amplexicauli-vaginantia, carnosula, lineari- v. oblongo- lan- 
ceolata. Caulis subscaposus, uniflorus, rariùs divisus. Genus confine Me- 
LANTAI nuperids in WURMBEAM ef ORNITHOGLOSSUM distracti. 
T. cornuta, uniflora; corolla è fusiformi-campanulata patentissima, pe- 
talis longissimis, caudatis. 
Tulipa cornuta. Redouté liliac. 445. 1 
Bulbus generis. Folia 3, elongato-lanceolata, long? acuminata, glauca, 
ubi latiora subundulata. Caulis teres, sesqui-bipedalis, subflexuosus, glaber, 
uniflorus, indivisus. Corolle petala longitudinis fer? 5-uncialis, latitudinis 
ubi latissima vir excedentis 3 partes uncie, colore varia, supernà involuta. 
Germen prismatico-columnari, unciam cum alterius fer? p parte altum ; 
lobi capitelli stigmatosi profunde compressi, revoluto-divaricati. Stamina 
germine ex und quintá sud parte circiter breviora. 
The roots that produced the specimens from which the 
present drawing has been made, were imported by Mr. 
Hamilton (under-secretary in the department for foreign 
affairs) from Constantinople, and flowered last May at Mr. 
Knight's nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea. We have 
found no mention of this remarkable Tulip any where ex- 
cept in one of the later numbers of the work upon Liliacées 
by M. Redouté, where it is stated to have been introduced 
into the Parisian gardens directly from Persia, in 1811. 
It is the nearest to Turpa gesneriana of any other 
species; but differs from that as well as from all we are 
