Tas. 6635. 
TULIPA Borszczow1. 
Native of Central Asia. 
Nat. Ord. Liz1acrz.—Tribe TULIPEx. 
Genus Tuxipa, Linn, ; (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xiv. p. 275.) 
Tutrrs Borszczowi ; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis exterioribus-intus adpresse pilosis, 
caule glabro unifloro 4~-14-pedali, foliis 3-4 lanceolatis suberectis glaucis facie 
canaliculatis margine obscure ciliatis, pedunculo stricto erecto, perianthii 
saturate lutei segmentis conformibus oblongis cuspidatis basi maculA parva 
rubro-brunnea notatis exterioribus dorso rubro suffusis, staminibus perianthio 
subduplo brevioribus, antheris magnis, filamentis glabris antheris brevioribus, 
ovario cylindrico-trigono stigmatibus magnitudine mediocribus. 
T. Borszezowi, Regel in Regel et Herder Enum. Plant. Semenoid. pt. iii. p. 115 ; 
Regel Fl. Turkest. vol. i. p. 137, tab. xxi. figs. 5-7. 
This is another of numerous new tulips discovered by 
the Russian explorers during their recent investigations in 
Central Asia. Of familiar types it comes in between 
Gesneriana and australis, having the broad glaucous leaves 
and glabrous filaments of the former, but a perianth in size 
and colouring more like those of australis or Orphanidea. 
It was first gathered by the explorer after whom it is named 
nearly twenty years ago on the Karakum Steppe near the 
Sea of Aral, flowering in May. It is figured in Regel’s 
Flora of Turkestan, and no doubt is quite hardy, but as yet 
we know very little of it in England as a living plant. Our 
figure is drawn from specimens that flowered at Kew in 
March of this present year, the bulbs of which were received 
from Dr. Regel. 
Drsor. Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter, with 
dark-brown membranous outer tunics, thinly coated with 
adpressed hairs inside. Stem erect, glabrous, one-flowered, 
not more than half a foot long in our specimens, but said 
to attain a foot or a foot and a half. eaves three or four, 
lanceolate, suberect, glaucous, channelled down the face, 
JULY Isr, 1882, 
