Tas. 8865. 
FRITILLARIA pontica. 
Orient. 
Liviaceak. Tribe TuLIpeag, 
Fritiniaria, Linn.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 817. 
Fritillaria pontica, Wahlenb. in Isis, vol. xix. p. 984 et in Berggr. Resor, 
vol. ii. Bihang, p. 27; Schult. Syst. vol. vii. p. 1687; Kunth, Enum. vol. 
iv. p. 248; Griseb. Spic. Fl. Rumel. vol. ii. p. 883; Baker in Journ, Linn, 
Soc. vol. xiv. p. 255; Velenovsky, Fl. Bulg. p. 546; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
vol. v. p. 179; Turrill in Kew Bull. 1918, p. 329; species affinis F. 
tenellae, M. Bieb., sed foliis latioribus superioribus ternatim verticillatis 
perigonii phyllis haud tesselatis facile distinguitur, 
Herba. Caulis erectus, usque ad 4°5 dm. altus, saepissime monocephalus, 
inferne aphyllus, superne foliosus. Folia viridia, 5-7 cm. longa, 0 8-1 cm. 
lata, inferiora opposita vel alterna, lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, apice 
obtusa, superiora ternatim verticillata, lanceolata, apice attenuato-acuta, 
glabra. Flos nutans. Perianthiwm campanulatum, segmentis rectis haud 
tesselatis, exterioribus ellipticis vel elliptico-oblanceolatis obtusis 8:5 cm. 
longis 1:2 cm. latis viridibus apicem versus purpureo-tinctis, interioribus 
subspathulatis apice obtusis 3°5 em. longis 17 em. latis viridibus parte 
superiore purpurea excepta, omnibus 6 mm. supra basin nectario ovato- 
orbiculari 4 mm. diametro leviter foveolato nigricante instructis. Stamina 
perianthio.subduplo breviora, filamentis 1-1 em. longis, antheris vix 1 cm. 
longis obtusis papilloso-puberulis. Ovariwm cylindricum, 1 cm. altum, 
2 mm. diametro, glabrum; stylus 8 mm. longus, glaber; stigmata 3, 
fere 5 mm. longa. Capsula oblongo-turbinata, haud stipitata, angulis 
alatis.—F. olympica, G. Koch, Linnaea, vol. xxii. p. 232; Walp. Ann. 
vol. iii. p. 628. I. pyrenaica, D’Urv. in Mém. Soe. Linn. Paris, vol. i. 
p. 294; nec Linn.—W. B. Turritu. 
The interesting /’ritillaria here figured is a charac- 
teristically Orient species with its headquarters in 
Thrace. It is reported to be plentiful near Constanti- 
nople and on the northern shores of the Bosphorus and 
the Sea of Marmora. Thence it extends southward into 
Bithynia and Anatolia, northward into Bulgaria and 
westward into Macedonia. It is usually found in woody 
places on hilly ground or among the foot-hills. The 
material for our plate was supplied by Mr. Hamilton 
Blanchard from his garden at Cotswold, Parkstone, the 
plant figured having been raised from a bulb sent from 
OcropeR—DECEMBER, 1920. 
