Tab. 7920. 

 tulipa p1lestans. 



Native of Bokhara, 



Nat. Ord. Liliaces. — Tribe Toxipe.*:. 

 Genua Tulipa, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 818.) 



Tulipa prsestans ; species ex affiaitate T. Kaufmannianse, Kegel, a qua differt 



foliis puberulis petalis basi immaeulatid ovario staminibus longiore. 

 T. praestans P Mast, in Gard. Ghron. 1903, vol. i. p. 324, f. 126. 

 T. praestans, Hoog, loc. tit. p. 364. Journ. Hort. 3rd Series, vol. xxxiv. p. 335. 



The genus Tulipa is now illustrated in the Magazine by 

 thirty plates, mostly of distinct species. In .1805 a 

 figure (t. 839) was given of T. suaveolens, Roth, then and 

 now generally recognized as the Due van Thol tulip of 

 the Dutch, the origin of which was unknown. The late 

 Dr. E. Regel, who was a specialist in tulips, first recorded 

 T. suaveolens (Acta Horti Petropolitani, vol. ii. (1873), 

 p. 455) as a native of the South of Europe; but he sub- 

 sequently received specimens from his son Albert of the 

 plant here figured, from Bokhara, and at once came to the 

 conclusion that it was the wild state of T. suaveolens, 

 Roth. Among the specimens sent he distinguished three 

 varieties (Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. viii. (1884), p. 650), but 

 the cultivation of bulbs from the same source caused him 

 to modify his views, and he combined the varieties uuder 

 the name of Tulipa suaveolens var. sylvestris. 



Following the appearance in the Gardener s Chronicle of 

 an uncoloured figure, cited above, of T. praestans, Mr. John 

 Hoog contributed a concise history of the plant and its 

 affinities. He agrees with other writers in identifying 

 T. suaveolens, Roth, with the Due Van Thol tulip, having 

 himself examined Roth's herbarium specimens still pre- 

 served in the State Museum of Oldenburg. But he regards 

 T. praestans as specifically distinct from that species ; a 

 view ultimately snared, it seems, by the late Dr. E. Regel, 

 who wa3 prevented by bad health from publishing it as a 

 new species. Mr. Hoog gives the following description 



October 1st, 1903. 



