Tas. 6451. 
ALLIUM. KARATAVIENSE. 
Native of Turkestan. 
Nat. Ord, Littacrz.—Tribe ALLIEZ. 
Genus Attium, Linn. ; (Regel Monogr. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. iii.) 
Autium karataviense; bulbo magno solitario depresso-globoso, foliis 2 raro 
3 prope scapi basin aggregatis magnis oblongis acutis viridibus glauco tinctis, 
scapo valido tereti semipedali, umbella magna globosa densiflora, spathz valvis 
2-3 parvis deltoideis, pedicellis strictis perianthio subtriplo longioribus, 
perianthii segmentis lanceolatis acuminatis albidis purpureo costatis, filamentis 
erectis perianthio equilongis basi deltoideis coalitis, ovario globoso trilobato, 
ovulis in loculo geminis collateralibus erectis, stylo ovario equilongo. 
A. karataviense, Regel Mon. Pp. 243; Fl. Turkest. vol. i. p. 98, tab. xvi. figs. 
1—3; Gartenfiora, vol. xxvii. (1878), p. 162, tab. 941. 
This again, like Tulipa triphylla, is one of the recent 
discoveries of the Russian explorers in Central Asia. It 
was first found several years ago by Sewerzow and Krause 
in the Karatau Mountains, east of Samarcand, and was 
gathered again in the summer of 1876 on the Alatau range 
by Dr. Albert Regel, who sent bulbs to his father at St. 
Petersburg, from whom we received it. Of old familiar 
types in the genus it most resembles Allium nigrum, but it 
is much dwarfer, with large prominently-veined leaves of 
firmer texture, and smaller flowers, with very acuminate 
perianth-segments. It is quite hardy in England, and our 
drawing was made from a specimen that flowered in the 
herbaceous ground at Kew in the month of May of this 
present year. 
Descr. Bulb solitary, depresso-globose, a couple of 
inches in diameter. Leaves usually two, rarely three, 
crowded near the base of the stem, oblong, acute, suberect, 
firm in texture, distinctly veined, glabrous, dull green, 
with a slight glaucous tinge, six or nine inches long 
by about three inches broad at the middle. Stem half a 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1879. 
