Tab. 6310. 
TULIPA Orphanidea. 
Native of Greece. 
Nat. Ord. Liliace.e. — Tribe Tulipe^:. 
Genus Tulipa, Linn. ( Balter in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 275.) 
Tulipa Orphanidea ; bulbo globoso tunicis intus apice brunneo-sericeis, caule glabro 
monoceplialo, foliis 2-3 linearibus glabris glaucescentibus facie canaliculatis, 
periantliii infundibularis lutei rubro tincti segmentis omnibus oblongis acutis 
unguibus rubro-brunneo suffusis, exterioribus angustioribus, filamentis lineari- 
bus basi pilosis incrassatis, antheris oblongis filamento brevioribus, ovario 
clavato staminibus breviore stigmatibus magnitudine mediocribus. 
T. Orphanidea, Boiss. in Orphan. PI. Grcec. Exsic. No. 843 ; Heldr. in Regel 
Gartenfi. vol. xi. (1862) p. 309, tab. 373, figs. 1 and 2 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. vol. xiv. p. 294. 
T. Celsiana, Heldr. in FI. Grcec. Exsic., non DC. 
T. sylvestris, var Orphanidea, Regel Enum. p. 43. 
T. Orplianidesii, Minervse et atheniensis, Hort. 
For garden purposes this is the finest of all the Tulips of 
the sylvestris group. It has flowers as large as those of 
sylvestris itself, but flushed on the outside with red instead 
of green. It is quite hardy, being an inhabitant of the 
mountains of Greece, at an elevation of from three thousand 
to four thousand feet above sea-level. It has been for some 
time in cultivation under various names, having been dis- 
covered in 1857 on Mount Malevo, in Eastern Laconia by 
Dr. Orphanides, Professor of Botany in the University of 
Athens, after whom it is named. Our drawing was taken 
from a plant which flowered with the Bev. H. Harpur- Crewe, 
at Drayton-Beauchamp, in June of this present year. In its 
native stations it flowers as early as April, or even the latter 
end of March. 
Descr. Bulb globose, about an inch in diameter, with 
AUGUST 1st, 1877. 
