Tas. 6459. 
TULIPA tripsysia. 
Native of Turkestan. ) 
Nat. Ord. LitraceEm.—Tribe TULIPEX. 
Genus Tuutpa, Linn.; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 275.) 
Tura triphylla; bulbo ovoideo-oblongo tunicis brunneis membranaceis intus 
apice parce adpresse pilosis, foliis 3-4 prope caulis basin impositis linearibus 
vel lanceolatis glauco-viridibus faleatis facie glabris margine obscure ciliatis, 
peduntulo semipedali glabro erecto, perianthii lutei infundibularis 15-18 lin. 
longi segmentis subconformibus oblongis subacutis, staminibus perianthio 
triplo brevioribus, antheris filamento clavato glabro zquilongis, ovario clavato- 
trigono stigmatibus parvis. 
T. triphylla, Regel Gartenftora, vol. xxvii. (187 8), p. 193, tab. 942, figs. bt a: 
This is another new species of Tulip from Central Asia. 
It was discovered by Dr. Albert Regel, on a recent excur- 
sion to the Sairam See, in latitude 42°, just south of the 
‘centre of the great Thian-schan range. At first sight its 
affinity appears to be with 7. sylvestris, but on looking 
closer it is found to have the glabrous filaments and other 
marks of the Gesneriana group, in which it is easily recog- 
nized by its narrow leaves, crowded together near the base 
of the stem, and funnel-shaped yellow flowers with uniform 
subacute segments. The drawing was made from plants 
that flowered at Kew this present spring, which were raised 
from bulbs sent to us by Dr. Regel, the father of its 
discoverer. ; 
Descr. Bulb ovoid-oblong, middle-sized, the dark brown 
membranous tunics with only a few adpressed hairs on the 
inside towards the tip. Stem six or eight inches long, one- 
flowered, bearing near its base three or four crowded falcate 
linear or lanceolate Jeaves, which are three or four inches 
long, a quarter or half an inch broad, slightly glaucous, 
glabrous on both faces, obscurely ciliated on the margins. 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1879. 
