Tas. 7440. 
TULIPA vVIoLAcEA. 
Native of Persia. 
Nat. Ord. Lin1acr®.—Tribe TuLrrex. 
Genus Tutrra, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 818.) 
Tuxtpa violacea; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis exterioribus chartaceis brunneis apice 
tantum pilosis, caule glabro unifloro, foliis 3-5 crebris ascendentibus glabris 
inferioribus lanceolatis superioribus linearibus, pedunculo glabro gracili 
elongato, perianthio campanulato basi cuneato sepissime splendide 
rubro raro albo-rubello, segmentis conformibus oblongis subacutis basi 
macula nigra albo-marginata preeditis, staminibus nigris, filamentis supra 
basin pilosis, ovario triquetro-cylindrico stigmatibus parvis. 
T. violacea, Boiss. et Buhse Aufzihl Transcaue. p.211. Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. vol. xiv. p. 290. Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 199. 
This beautiful tulip is one of the few species that have 
filaments hairy near the base, and bright red flowers. It 
is allied to 17’. Haagert (Bot. Mag. tab. 6242), and 7. pul- 
chella (Bot. Mag. tab. 6304). It was first described from 
specimens gathered by Buhse in 1848 in Northern Persia at 
an elevation of 6000 to 8000 feet. Boissier, writing in 
1881, says that he has seen it cultivated from the neigh- 
bourhood of Teheran. In 1882 it was found by Pichler 
on Mount Elwend, in the neighbourhood of the snow; and 
in 1890 it was collected by Dr. Strauss in the district 
of Sultanabad in the Raswand Mountains, whence it was 
sent to Leichtlin. Our drawing was made from plants 
grown from bulbs which the latter gentleman presented 
to the Royal Gardens, Kew, and which flowered at 
the end of March, 1895. The flower in these was bright 
mauve-red, not violet, so that the name is misleading, but 
our dried specimens show that it varies to red, with a 
slight flush of red outside. 
Descr.—Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter; outer tunics 
dark brown, subcoriaceous, hairy only at the tip. Stems 
one-flowered, under a foot long in the wild plant. Leaves 
three to five, crowded, ascending, glabrous, slightly 
glaucous, the lowest lanceolate, an inch broad, the others 
OctToBER Ist, 1895. 
