Tas. 6426. 
ALLIUM srpexn. 
Native of Palestine. 
Nat. Ord. Littacrm.—Tribe ALLIEZ. 
Genus Axium, Linn. (Regel. Monogr. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. iii.) 
Aum Erdelii ; bulbo solitario subgloboso, foliis 3-4 confertis basalibus late 
linearibus acuminatis suberectis glaucis ciliatis facie canaliculatis, scapo 
valido tereti, floribus permultis dense umbellatis, pedicellis flore 2-3—plo 
longioribus, spathé brevi seepe monophylla rotundata cuspidata interdum 
2-3-phylla, perianthii rotati segmentis lanceolatis acutis denticulatis albis 
viridi vittatis, staminibus perianthio equilongis, filamentis conformibus 
deorsum dilatatis purpureis, ovario globoso-trigono nigro nitido. 
A. Erdelii, Zuccar. in Abhand. D. K. Bayr. Acad. vol. iii. p. 237, tab.5; Kunth 
Enum., vol. iv. p. 688 ; Regel. Monog., p. 250. 
A. Libani, Boiss. MSS. 
This is one of the prettiest of all the Alliums for horticultural 
purposes. It is allied to the well-known 2. nigrum (of which 
a good figure will be found, Boranican Maeazing, t. 1148, 
_ under the name of 4. magicum), but is much dwarfer, with a 
very compact umbel of large fragrant flowers, the sharp- 
pointed white perianth-segments keeled with green, the 
filaments with a stain of bright claret purple at the base, and 
the ovary a glossy black. It is confined to Palestine, but 
extends from the Lebanon range as far south as Jerusalem. 
It has not been known in cultivation till last year we 
received dried specimens from our diligent correspondent, the 
Rev. G. E. Post, of the Syrian Protestant College at Beyrout, 
and one of the bulbs being found to be still alive was trans- 
ferred from the herbarium to the garden, where it revived, 
and in process of time produced the leaves and flowers which 
are here drawn. coe 
Descr. Bulb solitary, subglobose, about an inch in dia- 
meter. Leaves three or four, produced in a rosette from the 
surface of the ground, broad linear, suberect, tapering to the 
point, glaucous, channelled down the face, minutely ciliated, 
half a foot or more long. Scape stout, terete, glaucous, with 
