Tas. 6900, 
LEONTICE <Axserrt. 
Native of Western Turkestan. 
Nat. Ord. BerseripEx.—Tribe Berperex. 
Genus Lronticz, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p- 43.) 
Leronticr Alberti; tubere depresso-globoso, caulibus robustis, foliis subradicalibus 
2 longe petiolatis digitatim 5-foliolatis, foliolis per anthesin involutis, demum 
late elliptico-oblongis apice rotundatis, stipulis amplis viridibus venosis, 
sediment florifero robusto, racemo basi foliis oppositis instructo conico multi- 
floro, bracteis latis orbiculatis flabelliformibusve, floribus amplis ochroleucis, 
sepalis oblongis, petalis parvis cuneato oblongis truncatis concavis, ovario ovoideo 
stipitato. ; 
L. Alberti, Regel, Gartenflora, 1881, p. 293, t. 1057, f. 2. 
This is one of the many interesting discoveries of Dr. de 
Regel’s distinguished son, made during his extensive 
wanderings in Central Asia. Its exact habitat is on the 
Western Alatau Mountains, between Tashkend and Samar- 
cand. It is allied to the Z. altaica of the Siberian Altai, 
and indeed represents a gigantic form of that species. 
The specimen here figured was communicated by Mr. 
Elwes from his garden at Preston, Cirencester, with whom 
it flowered in April of the present year. Froma comparison 
with the plate given by Dr. Regel in the “ Gartenflora,” it 
will be seen that when the latter was made the plant had 
not attained its full development. : 
Descr. Tuber two inches broad, oblately spherical, much 
depressed at the top. Stems several from the top of the 
tuber, very stout, each usually giving off two subradical 
long-petioled undeveloped (at the flowering time) leaves, 
and a very stout flowering stem; and it is only long after 
the flowering of the latter that the two aforesaid leaves 
attain their full development. Fully-formed Jeaves on 
petioles four to five inches long, subdigitately five-partite 
into as many pale green glaucous rather fleshy sessile 
elliptic-obtuse leaflets; nerves obscure above, parallel and 
more prominent beneath; stipules three-quarters of an 
oor. Isx, 1886. 
