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TULIPA biflora. 
Calmuc Tulip. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA (TRIGYNIA). 
Nat, ord. Litxa. Jussieu gen. 40. 
MELANTHACER. Brown prod. 1. 274. 
TULIPA Supra vol. 3. fol. 204. 
T. biflora, bifolia; foliis linearibus intds glaucis, caule bi-(1-4-)floro glabro, 
corolla ante anthesin mutante, petalis staminibusque basi barbatis, pistillo 
acuté prismatico, stigmatum ora canaliculoque inconspicuis: capsuld tri- 
lobo-globos4 mucrone simplici praefixa. 
Tulipa biflora. Lin. suppl. 106. Pall. it. 3. 727. app. n. 86. tab. D. fig. 3. 
Georgi beschr. des russ. reichs. 4. part. 3. 902. alk it. 2. 109. n. 400. 
t.6. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 98, ejusd. enum. 1.363. Marsch. bieb. jl. taur. 
cauc. 1, 270. : He 
(8) foliis splendentibus, corolla ints diluté carnea antheris nigricantibus. * 
Tulipe Byzantine genus alterum. (Lalé di duoi fiori). Clus, hist. 1. 152. 
cum ic. 
* Minima generis. Bulbo-tuber (peracta fructificatione emoriturum) simile 
quotannis perpendicularitér demittens: hinc in annosis alta exuviarum per- 
sistentium strues caule percurrente catenata. Fol. inferné caulina, alterna, 
convoluto-linearia, acuminata, scapo longiora, extis nitida, inferne vagi- 
nantia. Caulis filiformis, palmaris ad spithameum, simplex vel ( pluribus 
confluentibus?) ramosus, ramis 2-4 unifloris. Flores remissits suaveolen- 
tes, candicantes fundo flavo, % uncie v. circa longi, sub anthesi erecti, 
campanulato-rotati: petala apice nuda, exteriora oblongo-lanceolata, sessilia, 
recurviora, extus colore violaceo diluté tincta, interiora duplo latiora, lanceo- 
lato-elliptica, subunguiculata, barbd exteriorum parciore, strié viridi externé 
prominuld. Stam. bis plusve petalis breviora: fil. posticé paullulum supra 
basin barbata: anth. erecte, flave, sagittata, Jilamento bis breviores. Stig- 
mata angult loculorum continut trint terminales replicati intus obsolete cana- 
liculati, margine pallidd nec incrassatéd neque undulata. Caps. mole feré 
Cerasi minoris. Flos. secundarius (observante Pallas), sepits ob castrata 
stigmata abortiens; nunc 4-petalus et 4-andrus. 
The most diminutive of the genus, and unknown in our 
gardens, until, like so many of our rarest as well as finest 
jiliaceous exotics, introduced by Mr. Griffin. 
It was received from Moscow along with celsiana; being, 
as well as that, an indigenous associate of gesneriana in the 
wilds of the southern shores of the Caspian Sea and of the 
banks of the Wolga. 
Celsiana (sylvestris; 3. minor. Marsch. bieb.) has bearded 
filaments, but beardless petals; biflora has both filaments 
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