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TULÍPA maleolens. 
Strong-smelling Tulip. , 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LILIACEA; 
TULIPA, Botanical Register, Vol. 14. fol. 1143. 
T. maleolens; caule foliis breviore glabro, foliis lanceolatis canaliculatis margine 
undulatis ciliatis, petalis exterioribus longioribus ovatis v. ovato-oblongis 
acuminatis, interioribus oblongo-ellipticis obtusis; maculá baseos laté rhom- 
boideá emarginatà. Bertoloni in litt. et Reboul nonnull. sp. tulip. not. p. 
9, et Appendix sec. Rómer et Schultes Syst. veg. vii. 376. 
For this rare tulip I am obliged to the Hon.W. F. Strang- 
ways, who communicated specimens from Abbotsbury, in 
May, 1838. 
According to Bertoloni the leaves are lanceolate, taper- 
pointed, regularly wavy and glaucous. The flower is red, 
deeper than in Oculus solis and precoz; in the inside crim- 
son red and shining, on the outside pale red. When in 
flower it exhales an unpleasant but weak smell. The spot 
at the bottom of the petals is short, truncated at the apex 
and emarginate, purplish with a yellow border, larger on 
the sepals than on the petals. The filaments are deep 
purple, and at the very tip light green. 
Mr. Strangways considers this plant to be **only a variety 
of T. Oculus solis; it is the smallest and most delicate; the 
bulb woolly as in the others. It is remarkable for its dark, 
rather than bright, cherry-coloured petals, with a pale straw- 
coloured border surrounding the dark eye which that tribe 
of Tulips has; this eye is of a dark greyish purple, and its 
pale edge is broader and generally more defined than in the 
other cognate Tulips. 1t approaches more nearly to the 
Tulip of the Euphrates (which I cultivate near it) than any 
