Tas. 6242. | ; 
TULIPA Hager. 
Native of Greece. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacex%.—Tribe TuLires. 
Genus Touutea, Linn, (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xiv., p. 275). 
TuLtpa Hageri; bulbo ovoideo tunicis membranaceis brunneis glabris, caule 
glabro semipedali unifloro, foliis 4-5 viridibus glabris lineari-loratis acutis 
facie canaliculatis nullo modo undulatis, perianthio inodoro erecto cam- 
panulato segmentis conformibus oblongis acutis splendide coccineis basi 
macula rhomboidea magna atro-purpurea luteo-marginata preditis, stamini- 
bus perianthio duplo brevioribus filamentis applanatis basi penicillatis, 
ovario cylindrico stigmatibus parvis. 
Tuutra Hageri, Held. in Regel Gartenflora, vol. xxiii., p. 97, tab. 790. 
This is a very handsome and distinct new species: It is 
the first of the small group which, in the monograph of the 
genus above cited, I have called Sazatiles, which has been 
introduced into cultivation. These Sazatiles are intermediate 
between the old well-known Gesneriane and Sylvestres, com- 
bining the showy bright scarlet or crimson flowers of the first 
with the narrow uncrisped leaves and filaments bearded 
at the base of the second. By its equal acute perianth- 
segments and large distinctly bordered basal blotch this 
recalls 7. batica to mind, but it has the character of leaf and 
stamen just mentioned, and both leaf and scape are quite 
free from pubescence. It was discovered by Dr. Von Held- 
reich in 1862 on the hills of the Parnes range in Attica, 
growing with 7. Orphanidea, at an elevation of 1600 feet 
above sea-level, and is included in his “ Herbarium Greecum 
Normale,” no. 811. The drawing was made from a specimen 
presented by Mr. Elwes to the Kew collection, which was in 
full flower on the 24th of April of the present year, and we 
have also received it from the Rev. H. N. Ellacombe and 
Rev. H. Harpur-Crewe. 
Descr. Bulb ovoid, under an inch thick, with dark brown 
glabrous membranous tunics. Stem half a foot high, terete, 
Juuy let, 1876. 
