Tas. 6786. 
TULIPA PRIMULINA. 
Native of Algeria. 
Nat. Ord. Linracez.— Tribe TULIPEZ. 
Genus Tuxipa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 818.) 
Tuipa primulina ; humilis, glabra, bulbo ovoideo tunicis exterioribus castaneis 
acuminatis intus adpresse pilosis, foliis 3-6 linearibus confertis viridibus, 
edunculo erecto unifloro, destin suaveolentibus primulino-luteis, perianthii 
infundibularis segmentis conformibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, exterioribus 
dorso rubellis, interioribus basi pilosis, staminibus perianthio duplo brevioribus, 
filamentis basi dense barbatis, ovario ampulleformi, stigmatibus minutis. 
T. primulina, Baker in Gard. Chron, new series, vol. xviii. p. 8, vol. xx. p. 233, 
This interesting new Tulip was discovered by Mr. Elwes, 
in May, 1882, in the Aures Mountains, three hours’ journey 
west of Batna, in Eastern Algeria. It was growing on the 
ridges and in the open glades of a cedar forest, at an 
elevation of about 6000 feet above sea-level. The same or 
a closely-allied species was found by Mr. W. Hammond at 
Elkantara, thirty miles further into the interior, on the 
border of the Sahara. Its affinity is with the widely-spread 
South European 7’. australis (LT. Breyniana, Bot. Mag., 
tab. 717), and with the rare lowland Algerine 1. fragrans, 
of Munby. These Tulips are many of them closely allied 
to one another, and they soon alter their stature and other 
characters under the influence of cultivation. : 
Descr. Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter; outer tunics 
chestnut-brown, acuminate, thinly clothed inside with short 
adpressed hairs. Stem one-flowered, glabrous, under a 
“foot long. Leaves three to six, crowded near the base of 
the stem, linear, glabrous, channelled down the face, reach- 
ing a length of six or eight inches. Peduncle glabrous, 
erect, half a foot long in the cultivated plant. Flower very 
fragrant. Perianth funnel-shaped, an inch and a half long 
in the cultivated plant, pale primrose-yellow, the two rows 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1884. 
