Tas. 7441, 
STERNBERGIA FISCHERIANA. : 
Native of the Caucasus, Persia and Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLEA. 
Genus Strrnpercis, Waldst. & Kit.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii, 
p. 721.) 
SrernBercia (Oporanthus) Fischeriana; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis membranaceis 
branneis supra collum productis, foliis 8-9 vernalibus synanthiis lineari- 
bus obtusis glauco-viridibus integris, pedunculis brevibus unifloris, 
spathis magnis membranaceis sepissime bifidis, ovario subsessili vel bre- 
viter pedicellato, perianthii citrini tubo brevi infundibulari, segmentis 
oblongo-spathulatis: tubo multo longioribus, staminibus inequalibus 
perianthio manifeste brevioribus, antheris oblongis parvis luteis, stylo 
elongato, stigmate capitato. 
Sternbergia Fischeriana, Roem. Amaryll. p.46. Kunth Enum. Pl. vol. v. 
p. 702. Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 147. Baker Mandb. Amaryll, p. 29. 
Oporanthus Fischerianus, Herb. Amaryl, p. 412, tab. 47, fig. 3. 
Amaryllis lutea, Bieb, Fl. Taur. Caue. vol. ii. p. 255, non Linn. 
This beautiful Sternbergia closely resembles the finest 
forms of the well-known Sternbergia lutea (Amaryllis 
lutea, Linn., Bot. Mag. tab. 290), but it flowers in spring 
instead of autumn. Sternbergia was separated from 
Amaryllis by Waldstein and Kitaibel, who named it in 
honour of Count Sternberg, the monographer of the Saxi- 
frages. Like S. lutea it is quite hardy in England, and it 
is therefore likely to become a popular garden plant. It 
was first described and figured by Herbert from the 
Caucasus, where S. lutea has not been found. Bulbs of it, 
collected in Persia, were received at the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, from Messrs. Damman in 1894; and others from 
the neighbourhood of Smyrna from Mr. E. Whittall in the 
same year. Our drawing was made from plants that 
flowered in a sunny, open border in the Royal Gardens, — 
Kew, in March, 1895, the bulbs of which were presented 
by the latter gentleman. 2 
Descr.—Bulb ovoid, one and a half or two inches in _ 
diameter; outer tunics membranous, brown, produced — 
above its neck. Leaves 8-9 to a bulb, vernal, contem- 
OctoBerR Ist, 1895. 
