Tab. 7374. 

 FJRITILLARIA atjrea. 



Native of Asia Minor. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace,*;.— Tribe Tulips^:. 

 Genus Fkitillaria, Linn.; (Benth. & Hooh.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 817). 



Fkitillakia (Monocodon) aurea ; bulbo parvo squamis pancis craesis, caule 

 spithanueo monocephalo, foliis 6-10 lanceolatis ascendentibus glaucescen- 

 tibus infimis ssepissime oppositis reliquis alternis, perianthio cernuo 

 breviter pedunculato late campanulato citrino intus minute tessellato, 

 segmentia oblongis diu late imbricatis supra basin nectario orbiculari 

 viridi profunde impresso preeditis, staminibus perianthio distincte brevi 

 oribus antheris lineari-oblongis citrinis, stylo tnfurcato. 



F. aurea, Schott in (Ester. Bot. Wochenbl. (1854), vol. iv. p. 137; Walp. Ann. 

 vol. vi. p. 106. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 259 ; in Gard. Ohron. 

 1876, p. 720. Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. v. p. 183. Kegel Gartenf. tab. 840, fig. 1. 

 Bev. Hort. 1878, p. 287, with figure. Garden, July 23, 1892, with figure. 



This pretty little Fritillary is easily recognized by its 

 dwarf habit and large drooping bright yellow flower, 

 faintly tessellated inside. In bulb and stigmas it agrees 

 with our indigenous F. Meleagris, but the nectary is 

 orbicular instead of linear and is more deeply impressed. 

 It was first found by Kotschy in the Cilician Taurus, from 

 which locality we have, in the Kew herbarium, dried speci- 

 mens collected by Mrs. A. E. Danford in 1876. In the 

 same year it was brought into cultivation by Leichtlin, 

 but it has been very little known till lately, when a good 

 supply of bulbs has been sent to Kew and various cul- 

 tivators by Mr. Whittall, of Smyrna. Our drawing was 

 made from plants received from him which flowered in the 

 Alpine House at Kew in March and April. The specimens 

 show considerable variation in the size and tessellation of 

 the flower. 



Descr. — Bulb small, with a few thick scales. Stem one- 

 flowered, a span long. Leaves seven to ten, ascending, 

 lanceolate, glaucescent, two or three inches long, the lowest 

 pair usually opposite, the others alternate. Flower solitary, 

 cernuous, shortly peduncled, cainpanulate, an inch and a 



ISeftembmi 1st, 1894. 



