Tas. 6895. 
TULIPA OSTROWSKIANA. 
Native of Turkestan, 
Nat. Ord. Litracra.—Tribe Tunipez. 
Genus Tunira, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 818.) 
Tutrpa Ostrowskiana; bulbo ovoideo tunicis exterioribus atrobrunneis intus 
parce adpresse pilosis, caule glabro glauco unifloro triphyllo, foliis glauco- 
viridibus marginibus obscure ciliatis, inferiori oblongo semipedali, superioribus 
lanceolatis, pedunculo glabro erecto, perianthio campanulato splendide rubro 
segmentis conformibus oblongis acutis basi nigro-maculatis, filamentis deorsum 
nigrescentibus basi nullo modo pilosis, stigmatibus sessilibus ovario vix 
latioribus. 
T. Ostrowskiana, Regel in Gartenflora, vol. xxxiii. (1884), p. 34, 71, 358, t, 1144, 
fig.1; Deser. Pl. Nov. fase. ix. p. 9. 
This is another fine new Tulip from Central Asia. It 
was discovered in Eastern Turkestan in the year 1881 by 
Dr. Albert Regel, and was named in compliment to Herr 
von Ostrowski, chief minister of the department to which 
the Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg belongs. 
Of the older-known types it is nearest to 7. Didieri, 
Jordan (Bor. Mac. tab. 6639). From T. Gesneriana it 
may be known at a glance by all the six segments of the 
_ perianth being narrowed to an acute apex and furnished 
_ with a small cuneate blotch of black at the base of the claw. 
There are two forms, one scarlet, with the outer segments 
of the perianth flushed outside with green, and the other 
crimson, with the outer segments with a glaucous tint, but 
no green. Our plate represents a plant grown at Kew, the 
bulbs of which came from Dr. de Regel. With us it 
flowers in the open air in the middle of Apri = 
_ Dssor. Bulb ovoid. middle-sized ; outer tunics rigid, 
brown-black, with a few adpressed hairs inside. Stem 
-one-flowered, three-leaved, glaucous, glabrous, about a foot 
long. Leaves glaucous, glabrous on the surface, minutely 
-Ciliated, erecto-patent; lowest oblong, acute, half a foot 
long ; two upper much smaller, lanceolate. Pedwnele erect, 
SEP. Ist, 1886, 
