Tas. 6726. 
EREMURUS rosustus. 
Native of Central Asia. 
Nat. Ord. Litracem.—Tribe ASPHODELER. 
Genus Eremurvs, M. B.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 787.) 
 Eremurvus (Henningia) rodustus; fibris radicalibus crassis cylindricis, foliis 
basalibus pluribus rosulatis ensiformibus bipedalibus glabris flaccidis, scapo 
valido tereti 2-3-pedali, racemo densiusculo 2-3-pedali, pedicellis solitariis 
erecto-patentibus apice articulatis, bracteis parvis linearibus membranaceis, 
perianthii campanulati rubelli segmentis oblongis nervo singulo perspicuo 
rubro-brunneo vittatis, filamentis filiformibus perianthio «quilongis, antheris 
lineari-oblongis cito contortis, ovario globoso, stylo elongato decurvato. 
E. robustus, Regel in Gartenflora, vol. xxii. (1873), p. 257, t.769; Fl. Turkest. 
vol. i. p. 125; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 284. 
_ Hewnrnara robusta, Regel Enum. Pl. Semenow, p. 134, no. 1092. 
Semenow, growing at a height 
one of whose original specim 
found it at a height of 10,000 feet in Turkestan, and soon 
The genus Hremurus, in which Henningia and Ammolirion 
are now included by common consent, is closely allied to 
= Asphodelus. Upwards of twenty species are now known, | 
which are concentrated in the dry regions of Central Asia, 
two of them just extending within the European boundary, 
and one to the Himalayas, but none, so far as at present 
known, to Japan or China. The present plant is unmistaka- 
bly the finest of the genus; its racemes reach a height of 
five or six feet, and its flowers are a beautiful pinkish red. 
It was first discovered by the well-known Russian traveller, 
of 2000 to 8000 feet above 
sea-level in the Alatau mountains. Madame Olga Fedjenko, 
ens we possess at Kew, next 
after it was collected at a much lower level in the same region 
by Korolkow. It was first flowered in Europe in the 
‘summer of 1871 at the Moscow Botanic Garden. Max 
Leichtlin succeeded with it at Carlsruhe in 1873. Some 
_time ago Mr. W. E. Gumbleton brought to us at Kewa 
beautiful drawing of a plant that had flowered with him in 
DECEMBER lst, 1883. 
