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Russia, Asia Minor, and probably Central Asia, but the very fine 
plant figured in the plate above referred to, which comes from 
Florence and grows wild in other parts of Italy, is one of the 
finest and most distinct. It is usually grown in Holland as 
T. fulgens, and though Mr. Baker separates it as a distinct species, 
I am unable to see sufficient reason for so doing. He includes 
under T. Gesneriana the following supposed species : T. amrnena, 
Boiss. “Diagn.,” ser. 2, iv. 99, Armenia; T. spathulata, Bert., 
from Florence, probably the same as the garden Fulgens. 
* T. Schrenki, Regel, “Enum.” 52, from Soongaria and 
Turkestan. Under the name of T. Gesneriana var. Schrenki, 
I have received from Dr. Regel a Tulip which appears to 
be identical with, and probably the origin of, the spring 
bedding tulip, well known and commonly grown under 
the name of Scarlet van Thol. Except in its very early 
flowering habit it seems to me to have no connection with the 
common Van Thol, T. suaveolens , Roth., “ Bot. Mag.,” 889, 
and still less with the Italian T. Gesneriana. 
T. Gesneriana fulgens, as it would be best to call the variety 
now under consideration, may be known with ease, by its great 
height, about two feet, its very large full and bright crimson 
flower, with deep blue-black eye, large yellow capitate stigma, and 
long black anthers and very short filaments. A very near ally 
to Gesneriana, and, in my opinion, only a variety of it, is 
* T. platystigma, Jord,, “leones,” 8, t. 16, which, as far as I 
know, is found wild only at Guillestre, in the department of the 
Hautes Alpes. The plants which I received through the 
kindness of my friend, Herr Max Leichtlin, from the Imperial 
Botanic Gardens of Vienna, and which were pronounced by 
Mr. Baker to be T. platystigma, are similar in habit and time 
of flowering to Gesneriana fulgens, only a little less in height and 
size of flower and with similar stigma and anthers. They may, 
however, be recognized by the magenta or pale purple colour 
and pale blueish eye, margined with whitish. This species (?) 
is not recognized in Grenier and Godron’s “ Flore de la France.” 
the Guillestre plant being referred to T. didieri. 
T. bithynica, Baker ex Grisebacli, J. L. S., 1874, xiv., p, 282. 
This Tulip, which according to Mr. Baker is Grisebach’s 
bithynica, seems to occur in most parts of Asia Minor, as I 
have myself found it in Lycia, and have received bulbs from 
