Tas. 6754. 
TULIPA KEssELRINGH. 
Native of Turkistan. 
Nat. Ord. Lin1ackz.—Tribe TULIPEZ. 
Genus Tutrpa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 818.) 
Tutipa Kesselringii ; bulbo globoso tunicis exterioribus intus parce strigosis, foliis 
4-5 lorato-lanceolatis glabris suberectis facie canaliculatis, pedunculo elongato 
glabro, perianthii lutei campanulati magnitudine mediocris segmentis interi- 
oribus obovato-oblongis subobtusis exterioribus oblongis acutis dorso rubro- 
viridulis, staminibus perianthio 2-3-plo brevioribus, antheris filamento glabro 
subeequilongis, stigmatibus parvulis. 
T. Kesselringii, Regel Gartenfl. vol. xxviii. (1879), p. 34, t. 964; Baker in Gard. 
Chron. 1883, part 1, p. 789. 
T. Hoeltzeri, Hort. Petrop. 
This is another of the new Tulips which have been 
discovered recently in Central Asia. It was drawn from 
specimens supplied by Mr. Elwes last April, and was 
received by him from Dr. Regel, under the unpublished 
name of Tulipa Hoeltzeri. It appears to me quite identical 
with the plant which has been figured and described as 
- Tulipa Kesselringii, which was sent to Europe from the 
mountains of Turkistan by Dr. Albert Regel about 1878, 
and was named by Dr. Regel after his son-in-law, Herr 
_ J. Kesselring. We do not possess any wild examples of 
of the plant. It falls into the group Gesneriane, by the side 
T. Didieri, Bot. Mag. t. 6639, and T. Kolpakowskiana, Bot. 
Mag. t. 6718, but in habit and flower-colouring at first sight 
it recalls far more strongly the Greek T. Orphanidea, Bot. 
Mag. t. 6310, the finest specific type of the Sylvestris group. 
We have also had it in cultivation at Kew, and it appears 
to be perfectly hardy. 
Descr. Bulb middle-sized, globose, outer tunics dark 
brown, slightly strigose on the inner face. Leaves lorate- 
lanceolate, four or five crowded together at the base of 
the stem, suberect, half a foot long, slightly glaucous, 
May Ist, 1884, 
