breyniana to Metantutum. | Several species had been con- 
founded as mutual varieties in gesneriana. 
Our plant is a native of the South of France, Savoy, 
Piedmont, and other of the northern parts of Italy. It dif- 
fers from gesneriana in having the outer segments of the 
corolla flat and pointed, the inner shorter, narrower, and 
rounded, but especially in having stigmas less revolute, not 
widely channelled, and without the white corrugated car-. 
tilaginous border, so conspicuous in those of the other. 
The outer covering of the bulb is lined throughout with a 
woolly . pubescence. Stem undivided, one-flowered, and 
quite smooth. Leaves four, subglaucous, softly ciliated, 
radical one ovately lanceolate and very broad. Flower 
upright, scentless, about two inches deep. Corolla cam- 
panulate, broadly rounded at the base, red, with a large 
blueish-black eyelike orb, surrounded by a narrow gold- 
coloured circle at the bottom within, from whence it has 
obtained in Italy the title of Occhio di Sole, of which the 
present specific mame is intended as the version. Segments 
elliptic; outer largest, flattest and pointed, externally of a 
paler opaque red, internally shining, spreading at the points; 
inner about + narrower, “shining on both sides, concave, 
rounded at the ends. Stamens about equal to the germen; 
filaments nearly a third shorter than the anthers, into the 
perforated bases of which they are inserted by slender sé- 
taceous elastic points. Germen faintly red; stigmas 
slightly reflectent, finely ciliated at their margins. It comes 
the nearest of any species to gesneriana, the common ` 
den Tulip, a native of the borders of the Caspian Sea. 
The drawing was taken in April from a plant lately re- 
ceived from Paris, by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Mine, 
of the Fulham nursery. 
The Томға biflora of Russian Tartary is at present 
wanting in our collections; but has been noticed and figured 
in some of the oldest botanical records in this country. We 
have seen spontaneous specimens of it in Mr. Lambert's 
Herbarium. 
