Tas. 6855. 
MUSCARI Svzovirstanum. 
Native of Persia and the Caucasus. 
Nat. Ord. Lin1acrkm.—Tribe SctnuEm. 
Genus Muscart, Miller; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 811.) 
Muscart (Bellevallia) Szovitsianum; bulbo magno globoso, foliis linearibus 
viridibus flaccidis facie glaucescentibus canaliculatis, pedunculo erecto semi- 
pedali, racemo densissimo primum conico demum oblongo, floribus nitide 
ceruleis leviter suaveolentibus, fertilibus breviter pedicellatis perianthio 
obovoideo-oblongo ore constricto segmentis latis imbricatis albidis flore expanso ~ 
faicatis, staminibus leviter biseriatis prope tubi medium insertis, ovario globoso, 
stylo ovario zquilongo, floribus sterilibus parvis densis subsessilibus pur- 
pureo tinctis. 
M. Szovitsianum Ruprecht MSS.; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, N.S. vol. ix. 
p. 799. 
M. racemosum, var, brachyanthum, Boiss. Fl, Orient. vol. v. p. 295. 
The numerous forms of Grape Hyacinth are very nearly 
allied and difficult to classify botanically. The present 
plant is intermediate between the two best- and oldest- 
known types, VM. botryoides and M. racemosum. It has the 
bright blue flowers of the former, but the raceme is denser, 
the leaves are narrower, and the perianth a different shape. 
We first received it at Kew from Max Leichtlin in the 
year 1876, along with many other rare bulbs, and have 
found it quite haray and easy of cultivation. It has a 
faint scent, and flowers with us at the end of March and 
the beginning of April. The plate was drawn from a plant 
in Kew Gardens in April, 1879. 7 
Descr. Bulb large as compared with its allies, globose, 
and if well-developed bearing two or three flowering-stems 
and numerous leaves. eaves linear, six or nine inches 
long at the flowering-time, a quarter of an inch broad, 
flaccid, bright green, channelled down the rather glaucous 
face. Peduncle terete, half a foot long. Raceme very 
dense, at first conical, finally oblong, an inch and a half or 
two inches long; central pedicels finally as long as the 
Jan. Ist, 1886. 
