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TULIPA maleolens. 

 Strong -smelling Tulip. 



HEXANDRIA M0T^0GY1<!IA. 



Nat. ord. LlLiACEiE. 



TVHAV A, Botanical Register, Vol. U.fol. 1143. 



T. maleolens ; caule foliis breviore glabro, folils lanceolatis canaliculatis margine 

 undulatis cillatis, petalis exterioribus longiorlbus ovatis v. ovato-oblongis 

 acuminatis, Interioribus oblongo-ellipticis obtusis ; macula baseos late rhom- 

 boidea emarginata. Bertoloni in litt. et Reboul nonnull. sp. tulip, not. p. 

 9, et Ajipendix sec, Romer et Schidtes Syst. veg. vii, 376. 



For this rare tulip I am obliged to the Hon.W. F. Strang- 

 ways, who communicated specimens from Abbotsbury, in 

 May, 1838. 



According to Bertoloni the leaves are lanceolate, taper- 

 pointed, regularly wavy and glaucous. The flower is red, 

 deeper than in Oculus soils and prcBcox ; in the inside crim- 

 son red and shining, on the outside pale red. When in 

 flower it exhales an unpleasant but weak smell. The spot 

 at the bottom of the petals is short, truncated at the apex 

 and emarginate, purplish with a yellow border, larger on 

 the sepals than on the petals. The filaments are deep 

 purple, and at the very tip light green. 



Mr. Strangways considers this plant to be " only a variety 

 of T. Oculus solis ; it is the smallest and most delicate ; the 

 bulb woolly as in the others. It is remarkable for its dark, 

 rather than bright, cherry-coloured petals, with a pale straw- 

 coloured border surrounding the dark eye which that tribe 

 of Tulips has ; this eye is of a dark greyish purple, and its 

 pale edge is broader and generally more defined than in the 

 other cognate Tulips. It approaches more nearly to the 

 Tulip of the Euphrates (which I cultivate near it) than any 



