Tas. 6822. 
HYACIN THUS azurevs. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacem.— Tribe SctniEx. 
Genus Hyacintuvs, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 812.) 
Hyacrntuvs (Hyacinthella) azwreus ; bulbo globoso copiose stolonifero, foliis 6-8 
erectis loratis facie glaucis profunde canaliculatis, pedunculo tereti foliis paulo 
breviori, racemis densis conicis floribus inferioribus splendide cceruleis breviter 
edicellatis perianthio oblongo segmentis late ovatis porrectis tubo subtriplo 
revioribus, floribus superioribus subsessilibus pallide cwruleis perianthio 
breviori campanulato, supremis paucis rudimentariis genitalibus abortivis, 
staminibus prope tubi medium insertis uniseriatis, filamentis antheris subxqui- 
longis, ovario ovoideo, stylo brevi, stigmate capitato. 
H. azureus, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p- 427. 
Muscari azureum, Fenzl in Delect. Sem. Hort. Vindob. 1858; Tchihat. Asia 
Minor Bot. vol. ii. p. 539. 
Bellevallia azurea, Boiss. F7. Orient. vol. v. p. 307. 
Amphobolis ccelestis, Schott et Kotschy in Kotschy Taur. p. 279, teste Boissier. 
Muscari lingulatum, Baker in Trimen. Journ. 1874, p. 6. 
The present plant is a welcome accession to our stock of 
hardy bulbs that flower in early spring. Although it has 
entirely the habit of our ordinary grape hyacinths, the 
segments of the perianth are not at all incurved, so that 
although it forms a complete link of connection between 
the two genera Hyacinthus and Muscari, its proper place is 
in the former. Our wild specimens in the Kew Herbarium 
were gathered on the Caramanian Taurus by Mr. Elwes, 
and on the Cilician Taurus by Mrs. Danford. It was first 
brought by Kotschy from Cilicia to the Vienna Gardens 
about 1856. For our Kew bulbs from which were grown 
the plants that furnished the material for the present 
figure, we are indebted to Herr Leichtlen. With us it 
flowers in the open ground at the latter end of February. 
Descr. Bulb depresso-globose, white, about an inch in 
diameter, copiously stoloniferous from the base. Leaves 
six or eight to a bulb, lorate, erect, glaucous, deeply chan- 
JUNE lst, 1885. 
