Tab. 6371. 

 FBITILLARIA. Sewekzowi. 



Native of Turkestan. 



Nat. Orel. IauAC**.— Tribe Tulipe.k. 



Genua Fmtillauia, Linn. (Baker in Joum. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 251). 



FwTHXABU (Korolkotvia) te^^bulbosubsoMogloboso, ^ «•*£*£ 

 vel sesquipedali, foliis propriis 5-0 opposite vel suboppositis ^ss^bus^ob 

 longis obtuBis, floribus 4-12 cermns brevi ter pedicell ate m WJ mm 

 laxum dispositiB lS u P erioribus minonbus abortive bractexs ^^^ 

 foliifornnbus,periantbiipoHicaris mfmubbulans lunde PWVJJJ^i 

 oblongo-oblanceolatis subacute dorso cannaUs ntm ^ShiSStSSS 

 pnedila, staminibus periantbio vix brevionbus, filament* fibi onmbus gWam, 

 antheris oblongis baiifixis, stylo elongato integro, capsuhs oblongo-Uigonis 

 obtuse angulatis. 



F. Sewerzowi, Hegel Enum. PI. Semenou; part iii. p. 120, No. 1057 ; Baker in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc.vol. xiv. p. 267. 



Kono^o^Se^rzo^i, EegelAninuul. 11873), p. 17 ; Gartenflom,xo\. ^ii-V- l«lj 

 tab. 700; Fl. Turhest. p. 150. 



This is one of the most curious, I would not say beautiful, 

 of the many new bulbous plants that have rewarded the 

 recent enterprising and assiduous researches oi the loissian 

 naturalists in Central Asia. I do not see that it has any 

 character to separate it generically from Fntilluna, but it 

 presents a most distinct type of habit, the long raceme with 

 its abortive upper flowers recalling F.perstca, but the flowers 

 much fewer, quite untessellated and as lurid a purple outside 

 as in F grceca or F. tidipifolia, and the bracts very largely 

 developed, the lower ones being quite similar in size and 

 texture to the upper leaves proper. It inhabits the mountains 

 of Turkestan, reaching an elevation of six thousand feetj above 

 sea-level, and is quite hardy in England We received it at 

 Kew some time ago from Dr. Kegel. Mr. Eto has been 

 very successful with it, his specimens having attained a far 

 greater size and luxuriance than ours. The plate was made 



jrt.v 1st, 1878. 



