TULIPA javana. Rumph. Amb. 5, 306. /. 105. 



Obs. Mo Jo convergunt Jligmatofce lacinula, mo Jo in capitellum con- 

 cavum coharefcuntf nee conjlanter Jccejentes . G. 



Descr. Leaves from 6 to 16, 1 to 3 feet long, 2 to 3 inches 

 broad ; Jiem 1 to 3 feet high, round-comprefled, or flattened 

 only on one fide ; flowers 1 to 10 or more, very fragrant. As 

 in that of gigantea, fo in the capfule of this, fome fingle ovulum 

 of one or more of the loculaments (being perhaps the only one 

 impregnated) is reared into an overgrown flefhy mafs or fertile 

 mole, germinating in the manner of a feed, while the reft are 

 ftifled and obliterated (Vid, No. 923*). Whether this is its 

 conftant mode of fructification, or merely occafional and alter- 

 nate, as in hngifolia and fome others of the family, we are not 

 yet enabled to decide. 



In a former part of this work (No. 923*), we had enumerated 

 the prefent plant, as the variety («) of the then fubject of our 

 obfervations ; at the fame time exprefTing a conviction, that 

 the african ornata and indian zeylamea were but one fpecies. 

 So far Mr. Dryander agrees with us; but thinks that the 

 white-flowered (j3) ought to have been fpecifically diftinguifhed 

 from that. With us, his opinion isdecifive ; and we have ac- 

 cordingly feparated them. At the fame time, beyond that of the 

 colour of the corolla, we are at a lofs to find any diftintlive 

 characters, that appear to us to be depended upon. In molt of the 

 fpecimens and figures, which we have feen, the leaves of ornaia 

 are regularly attenuated from a broad ftraight-fidcd bafe, and 

 not widening into oblong-lanceolate lamina from a fomewhat 

 taperingly contrasted one as in in thofe of gigantca ; they are 

 alio more decidedly undulate and lefs gteucous, as well as lefs 

 confpicuoufly ftriate ; nor did we perceive in them the (lender 

 denticulately ciliated edging that we noticed in thofe of the other. 

 But dill thefe are fuch marks as experience has taught us, arc 

 only to be depended on, when eflablifhed as the refult of ob- 

 fervations, formed from the comparifon of many fpecimens 01 

 each in fimilar ftages of growth and degrees of luxuriance. A* 

 for the corolla appearing in our drawing more diftended than 

 that of ornata, it is mod probably the mere efFe£t of a greater 

 degree of funfliine at the hour in which it was obferved by the 

 draughtfman, than took place when the other was feen by him. 

 The prefent fpecimen was brought by Dr. Roxburgh fro* 11 

 India, and flowered in Mt.Greville's hot-houfeat Paddingto' 1, 

 Others have been received from Sierra Leone, and are kno^ n 

 among the gardeners by the name of Cape Coaft Lilies. G. 



