Tab. 6308. 
TULIPA UNDULATIFOLIA. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. Liliace®.— ' Tribe Tulipe®. 
Genus Tulipa, Linn. ( Balter in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 275). 
Tulipa undulatifolia ; bulbo ovoideo magnitudine mediocri tunicis intus glabris, 
caule monocephalo puberulo, foliis 3-4 prope medium caulis confertis glau- 
cescentibus margine h}^alinis obscure ciliatis, inferioribus lanceolatis acumi- 
natis valde undulatis profunde canaliculatis, superioribus linearibus, peri- 
anthii splendide rubri segmentis conformibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, 
unguibus macula atra oblongo-oblanceolata luteo marginata decoratis, fila- 
mentis atris glabris antheris oblongis paulo longioribus, ovario clavato, 
stigmatibus parvis. 
Tulipa undulatifolia, JBoiss. Diagn. ser. I. pt. 5, p. 57 : Balter in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. vol. xiv. p. 286. 
The increased attention which has been paid lately to 
hardy bulbs is producing as one of its fruits the discovery 
and introduction into our gardens of several new species of 
tulip. The present plant is allied to T. Greigi , Eegel. (Bot. 
Mag. tab. 6177) and T. Eichleri , Eegel (Bot. Mag. t. 6191), 
but is much more slender in habit, with narrow much undu- 
lated leaves and perianth-segments narrowed gradually to a 
point after the fashion of that very fine and too-much neg- 
lected south European species, T. Oculus-solis. T. undulati- 
folia is less effective horticulturally than any of these three, 
and comes from a different country. It is very near the 
Greek T. loetica of Heldreich, which has not yet been 
figured. It was discovered many years ago by M. Boissier 
on the Tartali-dagh, just above Smyrna, but was only brought 
into cultivation two years ago by Mr. Elwes. Our drawing 
was made from bulbs which he procured on the Boz-dagh, 
sixty or eighty miles east of Smyrna, at an elevation of 4000 
to 5000 feet above sea-level, which flowered at Kew early 
in May of the present year. This spring Mr. Maw has 
procured a good supply of bulbs from Boissier’s original 
JULY 1st, 1877. 
