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TULIPA cornuta. 
Horned Tulip. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Litia. Jussieu gen. 48. (Ex nobis nunc rectids 
Mexantnaceis Brown prod. 272 co-ordinunda.) nd 
TULIPA. Flores terminales, nudi, solitarii, cauli sessiles. Cal. 0. 
Cor, infera, hexapetala, campanulato-patens, regularis, subequalis, de- 
cidua. Fil. hypogyna, erecta, crassits subulata: anth. oblongz, erecto- 
vibratiles. Germ. prismaticum. Stigmata apicibus compresso-compli- 
catis et varié reflexis valvarum germinis intus adnata, canaliculata. Caps. 
oblonga, coriacea, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis medio septigeris, septis margine 
interna utrinque seminiferis: sem. numerosa, biseriatim cumulata, plana, - 
incrassato-marginata, introrstiim attenuata ; albumen corneum. — i 
Bulbus sofidus -ovato-pyramidatus, indusio crustaceo v. scarioso- 
membranaceo tectus, latere altero obliquate baseos radicans; altero.anno 
post prolatum fructum enixus basi axeos rhizomatosa prepaziners stmilem 
Srugiferam cum aliis sterilibus in toto periturus. Folia caulina, subbifa- 
ria, 3-plura, amplexicuuli-vaginantia, carnosula, lineari- v..oblongo- lan- 
ceolata. Caulis subscaposus, uniflorus, rarids divisus. Genus confine ME- 
LANTAI nuperius in WURMBEAM et ORNITHOGLOSSUM distracti. 
T. cornuta, uniflora; corolla é fusiformi-campanulata patentissima, pes 
talis longissimis, caudatis. Ne gee ao 
Tulipa cornuta. Redouté liliac. 445. / 
__ Bulbus generis. Folia 3, elongato-lanceolata, long? acuminata, glauca, 
ubi latiora subundulata. Caulis teres, sesqui-bipedalis, subflexuosus, glaber, 
uniflorus, indivisus. Corolle petala longitudinis feré 5-uncialis, latitudinis 
ubt latissima viz excedentis & partes uncie, colore varia, superné involuta. 
Germen. prismatico-columnari, unciam cum alterius Jeré quarté parte altum s 
lobi capitelli stigmatost profundé compressi, eots Sancate Stamina 
germine ex und quinta sua parte circitér breviora. 
The roots that produced the specimens from which the 
present drawing has been made, were imported by Mr. 
‘Hamilton (under-secretary in the department for foreign 
affairs) from Constantinople, and flowered last May at Mr. 
Knight’s nursery in the King’s Road, Chelsea. We have 
found no mention of this remarkable Tulip any where ex- 
cept in one of the later numbers of the work upon Litliacées 
by M. Redouté, where it is stated to have been introduced 
into the Parisian gardens directly from Persia, in 1811. 
It is the nearest to Tunipa gesneriana of any other 
species; but differs from that as well as from all we are 
