Tas. 5969. 
FRITILLARIA TULIPIFOLIA. 
Native of the Caucasus. 
Nat. Ord. Lintackea.—Tribe, Tutirex. 
Genus, Frrmmiarta, Tourn.; (Kunth Enum. P1., vol. xiv. p. 246). 
Fririuarta tulipifolia ; glauca, caule basi nudo sursum paucifolio unifloro, 
foliis 3-4 sparsis ellipticis v. elliptico-lanceolatis subacutis supremis 
angustis, flore solitario nutante non tessellato, perianthii segmentis 
oblongis obtusis intus spadiceo-purpureis, exterioribus dorso glauco- 
azureis, interioribus dorso fascia media glauca instructis, nectario lineari~ 
oblongo viridi, filamentis gracilibus antheris linearibus flavis duplo 
longioribus, ovario cylindrico, stylo sursum lente incrassato, stigmate 
3-lobo. 
FrITiLuarta tulipifolia, M. Bieb. Flor. Taur. Cauc., vol. i. p. 270, Suppl., p. 
263, e¢ Plant. Ross., vol. i. t. 21; Kunth Enum. Pl., vol. iv. p. 247. 
F. caucasica, Adams in Web. and Mohr. Beitr., i. 51. 
Tueresta tulipifolia, Klatt in Otto’s Hamburg Garten-und-Blumenzeit, vol. xvi. 
p- 489 (eael, Syn.). 
A very elegant little Fritillary, apparently common in the 
mountains of Georgia and Armenia, and extending thence to 
those of the Taurus in Asia Minor. It has also been de- 
scribed as a native of Greece and Siberia, and even of the 
Pyrenees, under the names of F. persica 8 pyrenaica, Sibth., 
F. racemosa, Miller, &c., but without living specimens to com- 
pare, I dare not venture to unite these species of so difficult 
agenus. Klatt refers F. obliqua, Gawler (Bot. Mag., tab. 857), 
to the same series, but that is a racemose species with narrow 
twisted leaves and violet coloured flowers,and has, I apprehend, 
nothing to do with this, and is probably a form of F. persica 
(Bot. Mag., tab. 1537.) ; 
As a species F. tulipifolia is remarkable for its glaucous 
blue hue, and the singular colour of the flowers, which re- 
semble a tulip in shape, and have a chalky appearance outside. 
According to native specimens, it varies greatly in stature 
and in the size of all its parts. | 
MAY Ist, 1872, 
