Tas. 6639. 
TULIPA Dptert. 
Native of Savoy and Italy. 
Nat. Ord. Linracex.—Tribe TULIPER. 
Genus Tuxipa, Linn. ; (Baker in Journ, Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 275.) 
Tuxipa Didieri; subinodora, bulbo magno ovoideo tunicis exterioribus brunneis 
intus subglabris vel parce pilosis, caule stricto glabro unifloro pedali vel sesqui- 
pedali, foliis 3-4 oblongo-lanceolatis vel lanceolatis glauco-viridibus glabris, 
perianthii campanulati splendide coccinei segmentis basi macula magna pur- 
purea flavo marginata praditis exterioribus oblongis subacutis interioribus 
obovato-oblongis cuspidatis, staminibus perianthio triplo brevioribus antheris 
filamento glabro subeequilongis, ovario trigono stigmatibus magnis. 4 
T. Didieri, Jordan Fragm. vol. i. p. 36, t.5, fA; Jord. et Fourr. Ie. p. 8, t. 17; 
Baker in Journ. Paw. Soc, vol. xiv. p. 283. 
T. Fransoniana, Parlat. Nuov. Gen. p. 15; Flora Ital. vol. ii. p. 392; Baker in 
Gard. Chron. 1878, p. 756. 
T. Gesneriana, Bellardi App. Fl. Ped. p. 226, non Linn. 
This is one of the finest of all the known Tulips. It is 
closely allied to T. Gesneriana, with which it agrees in 
general habit, leaves and bulb. It differs by the segments 
of the perianth being narrower and more pointed, and 
especially by their being furnished at the base with a large 
cuneate purple blotch with a yellow border, which covers 
the whole of the claw. It has long been known to inhabit 
cultivated fields in the neighbourhood of St. Jean de 
Maurienne, in Savoy, and I cannot separate from the Savoy 
plant by any tangible character the Florentine 7’. Fran- 
soniana of Parlatore. There are three other Tulips which 
grow along with it in Savoy (7. mauriana, planifolia, and 
Billietiana), which have been described and figured as 
species by Jordan, but which come so near to it that I have ~ 
regarded them as varieties in the paper above cited. Our 
plate was drawn from a plant which flowered in Kew 
Gardens in the herbaceous ground towards the end of May 
last year. 
avuGust Ist, 1882, 
