МЕ, M. T. MASTERS ON A NEW SPECIES OF BELLEVALIA. 113 
On a new spe Pn of Bellevalia from Mount Ida. By MAXWELL 
T. Mast Esq., Lecturer on Botany at St. George's Hos- 
pital, &c. Communicated by the SECRETARY. 
[Read May 6, 1858.] 
Among the plants collected on Mount Ida by the medical officers 
attached to the Civil Hospital at Renkioi, during the Crimean war, 
is what appears to be a new species of Muscari, or rather of Belle- 
тайа, Kunth. For this opportunity of describing it, I am indebted 
to my friends Drs. Armitage and Playne; and I regret that the 
name proposed for it (supposing it to be an undescribed species 
of Muscari) is not applicable. Under this name, Muscari latifo- 
lium, it has been described by Dr. Kirk, one of its discoverers, 
in a paper read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, in 
January, and reported in the ‘Edinburgh New Philosophical 
Journal’ for April. But though in habit and external appearance 
it presents the greatest resemblance to the species of Muscari, 
yet the form of the perianth and the consolidated condition of the 
styles and stigmata necessitate its being placed in the genus 
Bellevalia of Kunth. If I am right in this conjecture, I would 
venture to propose the name of Bellevalia Muscarioides for it, and 
thus to define its characteristics more fully than has been done in 
the report above referred to. 
Bellevalia. Floribus inferioribus eampanulatis basi angulatis 
pedicellatis horizontaliter patentibus vel pendentibus; superiori- 
bus tubulosis sessilibus approximatis neutris; folio unico erecto 
oblongo-acuto versus basin attenuato. 
Descr.— Habit, that of the species of Botryanthus or Mus- 
čari, Kunth.—Bulb ovate. Leaf erect, oblong-acute, tapering 
towards the base, 6-8 inches long, greatest width 8-10 lines. 
Scape erect, twice the length of the leaves, bearing an oblong 
erowded raceme 1-2 inches long; lower pedicels horizontal or 
pendent, 2-3 lines long, decreasing in length upwards; upper- 
most flowers sessile. Bracts minute, membranaceous, lanceolate. 
Perianth in perfect flowers purple, 2-3 lines long, deciduous, cam- 
panulate, angular at the base, not contracted at the throat, limb 
divided into six short-ovate connivent lobes. Upper flowers azure- 
blue, tubular, sessile, barren. Stamens six, arising from the middle 
of the tube of the perianth, included. Anthers adnate, bluish. 
Ovary deeply three-lobed, slightly rugose on the surface, three- 
celled, each cell containing two large flattened ovules superposed. 
Style one, tapering, as long as the ovary, included. — entire 
LINN. PROC.—BOTANY. 
