Tab. 6365. 

 ERITILLAKIA armena. 



Native of Armenia. 



Nat. Ord. Liuace.e.— Tribe Tulii'k.k. 

 Genus Fritularia, Linn. ; [Baker ittJourn. Linn. Sue. vol. xiv. p. 251). 



Fiurn.T.AniA armena; bulbo parvo globoso, caule semipedali vol pedah umlloro, 

 foliis 4-5 alternis ascendontibus acutis, inferioribus lancoolatis, supenonboa 

 linearibus, perianthio inrondibulaii-campanulato livide purpura) Bubpolli- 

 cari, segments obovato-oblongis cxtus glauoescentibus intus baud tessellatis. 

 foveolaparva oblouga propc basin proeclitis, staminibus perianthio paulo 

 brevioribuB, stylo ovario sequilongo apice stigmatoso obscure tricuspidato 

 interdum exserto. 



F. armena, Boiss. Diaon. part vii. p. 10(>. 



This little Fritillary is interesting as forming a connecting 

 link between the two sections Monocodon and AmbUrum, 

 the first marked by its distinctly trifid and the latter by its 

 entire style, in both cases in combination with a small globose 

 bulb, with only two or three thick tnnic-scales and a capsule 

 with rounded lobes with shallow interstices. Of the species 

 of the latter section it approximates to F. tuUpifolia, M. B. 

 (Bot. Mag. tab. 5969), and F. dasyphylla Baker (Bot. Mag. 

 t 6321); and of the former to F. grceca, Boiss. ; resembling 

 all these three in its comparatively dwarf habit and lurid- 

 purple flowers, without any distinct tessellation. The typical 

 plant from Armenia is represented on the left-hand side ol 

 the plate. The drawing was made from a living specimen 

 received at the end of March from Mr. George Maw, who 

 procured the bulbs from Jas. ^ohrab, Esq., the British 

 Consul at Erzeroum. We have dried examples in the kew 

 herbarium from the same gentleman, and from two other 

 collectors, Aucher Eloy (from whose specimens Boissier s 

 diagnosis was made), and Iluet du Pavilion. The latter 

 localises it on the Tech-dagh, above Erzeroum, at an elevation 



1st. 1878. 



