Tas. 6166. 
GALANTHUS Etwest. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLE. 
Genus Gaanruus, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen, Plant., p. 174). 
Gaantuus Elwesii ; vagine ore lateraliter fisso, foliis binis 6~8-pollicaribus 
2 poll. latis planis basi carinatis semitortis valde glaucis, spatha 1} 
pollicari, floribus amplis 1-14 poll. diam., segmentis exterioribus late 
obovatis concavis albis, interioribus cuneato-oblongis medio constrictis 
apice 2-lobis, lobis obtusis divergentibus intus plicato-carinatis viridi- 
bus fascia media alba. 
This fine Snowdrop is very distinct from any previously 
described, though whether all these, namely, G. zzvalis, L., of 
N. Europe, G@. plicatus, M.B. (Tab. nost. 2162, a poor plate 
of a small specimen), of the Caucasian regions, and G. Jm- 
perati, Bert., of Italy (G. plicatus, Tenore not of M. Bieb.), 
should not, together with this, be regarded as geographical 
forms of one may be a matter of opinion. G. Elwesii is 
nearest to plicatus, but differs in its basal sheath being more 
or less deeply notched or even divided on one side ; in the 
leaves not being folded within the sheath, but twisted ; in 
the larger flower and fruit ; and in the form and colour of the 
inner perianth-segments, which in G. plicatus are not as in 
this constricted in the middle, and are merely notched, not. 
2-lobed at the tip, and are white with two confluent green 
spots confined to the top. Lastly, the anther-cells are 
shorter and broader in G, Hlwesii than in the Kew speci- 
men of G. plicatus. 
Galanthus Elwesii is a native of the summits of Yamanlar- 
-dagh mountains, north of the Gulf of Smyrna, where it was. 
discovered by M. Balansa in 1854, and whence dried speci- 
mens were distributed under the name of G. plicatus, being 
so named by M. J. Gay of Paris. I am indebted to Mr. 
Elwes, of Miserdine House, Cirencester, a gentleman who 
to an ardent love of scientific horticulture unites the powers 
of a traveller, collector, and observing naturalist, for pointing 
MAY Ist, 1875. 
