Tulipa praecox, Ten.

10. T. praecox Ten. View in CoL , FI. Nap. 1.: 170 (1811).

Bulb 30-48 x 28- 30 mm, stoloniferous; tunics thin and papery, densely lanate inside. Stem 18-65 cm, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves 3-4(-5), up to 37 x 6*7 cm, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, more or less flat, subobtuse to acute, glaucous, glabrous. Flowers solitary; perianth orange, tinged with green on the outside, each segment with a dark brownish-green basal blotch edged with yellow, extending to of its length, the inner with a distinct yellowish median stripe; perianth-segments about twice as long as wide, the outer 40-82(-100) x 22^44(-52) mm, broadly ovateelliptical, acute, the inner 36-68(-76) x 17-34 mm, ovate-oblong to obovate, subobtuse. Filaments 7-16 mm; anthers 11-24 mm. Capsule rarely formed. 2« = 36. In and around cultivated land. Locally naturalized in S. Europe. [?Co Ga Gr It Lu Tu.] (?5. W. or S.C. Asia.)