Tas. 6761. 
TULIPA ALBERTI. 
Native of Turkestan. 
Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Tribe Toripex. 
Genus Tuxrpa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 818.) 
Tutira Alberti; bulbo ovoideo magnitudine mediocri tunicis exterioribus intus 
strigosis, caule erecto unifloro trifoliato puberulo, foliis glabris glauco-viridibus 
‘immaculatis, inferiore oblongo-lanceolato, superioribus minoribus lanceolatis, 
pedunculo erecto puberulo, perianthii magni campanulati splendide rubri 
segmentis late imbricatis exterioribus oblongis, interioribus obovatis omnibus 
basi luteis macula magna bifida rubro-brunnea praditis, staminibus perianthio 
2-3-plo brevioribus filamentis glabris luteis antheras lanceolatas purpureas 
superantibus, ovario trigono-cylindrico, stigmatibus sessilibus magnitudine 
mediocribus. 
T, Alberti, Regel in Gartenflora, vol. xxvi. (1877), p. 257, t. 912; Baker in 
Gard. Chron, n.8. vol. xx. p. 153. 
This is another of the fine new Tulips which have been 
discovered lately through the Russian explorations in 
Central Asia. It was discovered by Dr. Albert Regel, 
after whom it was named by his father, in an expedition to 
the mountains of the province of Kuldscha, of which a 
detailed account will be found in the twenty-sixth volume 
of the Gartenflora, page 230 to 236. It is a neighbour of 
the well-known T’.. Gesneriana, from which it differs by its 
pubescent peduncle, flower-segments all six marked with a 
great bifid red-brown blotch upon a yellow groundwork at 
their base, and by the three outer being quite different in 
shape from the three inner. ‘'wo nearly-allied Siberian 
Species have previously been introduced into English 
gardens and figured lately in the Borantcan Magazine, 
I’. Greigit on Tab. 6177, and the Georgian 7’. Hichleri on 
Tab. 6191. Our plate was drawn from a specimen that 
flowered with Mr. Elwes at Cirencester last April. 
Drscr. Bulb middle-sized, the outer tunics furnished 
with a few adpressed hairs inside. Stem about a foot long 
including the peduncle, terete, finely pubescent, one- 
JUNE lst, 1884. 
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