TULIPA 



TULIPA 



3399 



blotch, which is usually yellow but may be dark or 

 even blackish or mixed, sometimes white; segms. all 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse, broadly rounded at apex, often 

 with a small cusp in the center; filaments glabrous, 

 flattened; ovary prismatic; stigmas large and usually 

 crisped. Origin uncertain. Intro, from the Turkish 

 gardens in 1554. Long since hybridized and cult, out 

 of all semblance to any wild forms. Supposed original 

 form (Baker) in EM. 6439 (as T. Schrenki). Darwin 

 tulips (Fig. 3871) are a strain of long-stemmed late 

 self-colored tulips. 



Var. Dracontia, Baker. PAHROT TULIP. Fig. 3870. 

 Similar in habit: perianth usually yellow and red 

 striped and splotched; segms. deeply cleft and lacini- 

 ately dentate. F.S. 21:2211 (as T. turcica). 



Var. spathulata, Hort. (T. spathulata. Bertol.). 

 This differs from the type in its larger fls. of a brilliant 

 red color with a large purplish black blotch at the base 

 of each of the segms. Italy. Probably the largest of 

 the wild tulips. 



Var. Strangewaysiana, Hort. Very large brilliant 

 dark scarlet fls., with a handsome dark basal blotch. 

 One of the naturalized tulips found without disposi- 

 tion to vary in fields near Florence, Italy. F. 1881 :65. 



Var. albo-oculata, Krelage. Deep eampanulate fl., 

 with a slight sweetish mawkish odor, bright red, with a 

 distinct white basal blotch; inner segms. obtuse, outer 

 acute; filaments white. 



13. nitida, Hoog. Bulb ovoid and small, with 

 long neck, the brown coats glabrous inside except 

 a few short hairs at base and top: scape slender and very 

 short (2-3 in. high), glabrous: Ivs. 3, linear-lanceolate, 

 falcate and channeled: fl. bell-shaped, 1% . m - long, 

 intense and very brilliant vermilion-scarlet with small 

 well-defined black blotch at base of segms.; inner 

 segms. obovate, outer segms. oval and shorter. Bok- 

 hara. G.C. III. 31:351. 



A3. Outer bulb-tunic with a few oppressed hairs inside 



toward the top. 

 B. St. pubescent. 



c. Lns. blotched with linear chestnut- 

 brown spots: filaments not bearded 



at base 14. Greigii 



cc. Lxs. not blotched: filaments bearded 



at base 15. Eichleri 



BB. St. glabrous (T. Kolpakowskiana 



sometimes obscurely pubescent), 

 c. Lns. ovate or broadly lanceolate. 



D. Filaments bearded at base 16. pulchella 



17. violacea 



DD. Filaments not bearded 18. carinata 



19. vitellina 



cc. Lns. narrowly lanceolate to linear or 

 linear-lanceolate. 



D. Filaments bearded at base 20 



DD. Filaments not bearded, glabrous .21. 



22 



23. 



sylvestris 



Ostrowskiana 



Kolpakow- 



[skiana 

 Sprengeri 



14. Greigii, Regel. Height 2-8 in.: Ivs. usually 4, 

 obscurely downy, much undulate toward cartilaginous 

 border: perianth campanulate, 3-3^ in. long, 5 in. 

 across, spreading abruptly from about the middle, 

 bright crimson with a large dark basal blotch margined 

 with yellow; segms. uniform, obovoid, cuspidate or 

 emarginate; anthers yellow; filaments black, glabrous; 

 ovary narrowed at collar; stigmas yellow, twice as 

 broad as neck of ovary, reflexed. Turkestan. B.M. 

 6177. F.S. 21:2261. 'F. 1876:217. G.Z. 21:265. 

 Early-blooming. Var. alba, Hort., has segms. white- 

 margined. 



15. Eichleri, Regel. Height 6 in. : Ivs. 12-15 in. long, 

 lanceolate-acuminate, margins plane and smooth: 

 perianth broadly campanulate, 2J^-3^i in. across, 

 deep scarlet with a broad - cuneate dark violet-blue 



basal blotch margined with yellow; segms. rounded at 

 top with a mucro; anthers violet-brown; filaments 

 black; stigmas very thick, undulate, pale yellow. 

 Georgia in Asia. B.M. 6191. F. 1877 : 169. Allied to 

 T. Greigii. 



16. pulchella, Fenzl. Height 4 in. : Ivs. 2-3, crowded 

 and spreading close to the surface of the ground, chan- 

 neled, obscurely ciliate on edges: perianth funnelform, 

 erect, 1-1% in. long, 2% in. across, bright mauve-red 

 above, passing downward into a slaty lilac without any 

 dark-colored blotch, but bright yellow at base; segms. 

 all acute, densely pilose at base; filaments linear; 

 ovary clavate; stigmas less than ovary-diam. Alpine 

 regions of Cilician Taurus, 1877. B.M. 6304. A dwarf 

 species near to T. Hageri. 



17. violacea, Boiss. & Buhse. Less than 12 in. high: 

 Ivs. 3-5, crowded: perianth campanulate with a con- 

 tracted base, 1}^ in. long, 2 in. wide, fragrant, typi- 

 cally bright mauve-red or rosy crimson flushed with 

 purple, varying to white with a slight flush of red out- 

 side, with a large brown or black basal blotch, usually 

 bordered with white; segms. uniformly oblong, sub- 

 acute; stamens black or purple; stigmas small. Persia. 

 Intro, to cult. 1890. B.M. 7440. G.M. 39:390. 

 Allied to T. Hageri and T. pulchetta. 



18. carinata, Hort. Krelage. Lvs. 3, not crowded, as 

 long as fl. -stalk, slightly undulate, lightly ciliate on 

 edge near base: perianth open-campanulate, 3 in. long, 

 dark scarlet, tinged with green just above and blending 

 into a bright yellow basal blotch; segms. acute, cuspi- 



date; stamens yellow; ovary 

 prismatic; stigmas white, not 

 undulated. Habitat unknown. 

 Vars. r&bra and violacea, 

 Hort., are offered. 



19. vitellina, Hort. Lvs. 4, 

 not crowded, as long as fl.- 

 stalk, not undulated, thinly 

 ciliate on edges: peduncle 

 slightly tinged with red near 

 fl.: perianth campanulate, 2 

 in. long, sulfur-yellow, no 

 basal blotch; inner segms. 

 rounded, outer acute; fila- 

 ments yellowish white; 

 stigmas not undulated. Said 

 to be "hybrids between T. 

 suaveolens and T. Gesneriana. ' ' 

 It is one of the "Cottage Gar- 

 den" tulips, a class of old- 

 fashioned tulips which have 

 been preserved from oblivion 

 in the gardens of the poor. 

 Recently they have been 

 restored to popular favor. 

 Well worth attention. 



20. sylvestris, Linn. Height 

 9-15 in.: Ivs. usually 3, at 

 base of scape, channeled, 

 linear-lorate : peduncle some- 

 times 2-fld. in cult.: bud 



nodding; perianth funnelform-campanulate, lJ^-2 in. 

 long, yellow; segms. all acute, inner narrower; ovary 

 bladder-form (narrowed at collar); stigmas smaller 

 than ovary-diam., yellow. Said to be native in Eng- 

 land and widely so in Eu. In cult, as T. florentina and 

 T. florentina var. odorata. 



21. Ostrowskiana, Regel. Outer tunics of the bulb 

 blackish, strigose-pilose at their apex inside: st. 3-lvd., 

 glabrous, 1-fld., 8-10 in. high including the peduncle: 

 Ivs. glaucescent, glabrous, immarginate, the lower nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, strongly undulate, the upper linear- 

 lanceolate to sublinear, shorter than the st.: peduncle 

 glabrous: sepals more or less spreading, elliptic, per- 



3871. A Darwin tulip 

 See No. 12. 



