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Tas. 6710. 
TULIPA Kotpakowsgyana, 
Native of Turkestan. 
Nat. Ord. Littacex.—Tribe TuipPex. 
Genus Toxtpa, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 818.) 
Tutira Kolpakowskyana; bulbo magno ovoideo, tunicis castaneis exterioribus 
intus parce adpresse-strigosis, caule valido uniflo® glabro, foliis 3-4 margine 
obscure ciliatis, inferiori lanceolato subpedali, superioribus linearibus, flore 
leviter odoro ante anthesin subnutante, perianthio magno campanulato splendide 
rubro vel luteo segmentis subconformibus oblongis acutis exterioribus magis 
patulis, filamentis glabris, ovario crasso trigono, stigmatibus magnis crispatis. 
_T. Kolpakowskyana, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. v. p. 266; Gartenflora, 
vol. xxvii. (1878), pp. 293, 336, t. 951; Gard. Chron. 1880, f. 11l et 113; 
Baker in Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. i. p. 789. 
This new Tulip from Central Asia is a very fine plant, 
and likely to prove quite hardy in our English climate, and 
to become a popular favourite. It is a near ally of 7. 
_ Gesneriana, with which it quite agrees in bulb and general 
habit, differing in its earlier time of flowering and in the 
Segments being narrowed gradually to an acute point. It 
is likely that it will prove equally variable with T. Ges- 
neriana in the colouring of the flower. Mr. Elwes, who 
supplied the specimen for the present figure, says :—“ The 
colour is either bright cherry red, with a black eye, purplish- 
black anthers and filaments; or yellow, flamed reddish on 
the back of the three outer segments ; or pure yellow, with 
blackish eye and yellow anthers and filaments.” It is a 
native of Turkestan, and was introduced to the St. Peters- 
burg garden by Dr. Albert Regel and Fetisow about 1877. 
Descr. Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter, with 
= brown membranous tunics, slightly strigose inside. Stem 
erect, terete, one-flowered, about a foot long. Leaves three 
or four to a stem, slightly glaucous, unspotted, obscurely 
_ Ciliated on the margin, glabrous on the face and back, the 
lowest lanceolate, about a foot long by an inch broad, the 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1883. : 
