Tar. 6994. 

 ALLIUM Suwoitowr. 

 Native of Central Asia. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace^:. — Tribe Allied. 

 Genus Allium, Linn. (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 802.) 



Allium (Molium) Suworowi ; bulbo magno ovoideo, foliis 6-7 dense rosulatis 

 ensiformibus pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus glauco-viridibus glabris flaccidis, 

 scapo valido stricto tereti bipedali, floribus permultis lilacinis in umbellam 

 densam globosam dispositis, spatba brevi valvis 1-2 ovatis pedicellis subsequi- 

 longis, periantbii segmentis lanceolatis viridi vittatis flore expanso patulis, 

 staminibus conformibus filamentis subulatis periantbio paulo longioribus, 

 antheris parvis oblongis lilacinis, ovario stipitato globoso acute trigono, stylo 

 elongate 



A. Suworowi, Hegel in Act. Sort. Petrop. vol. vii. p. 546 ; Gartenfl. 1881, 

 p. 356, tab. 1062, figs. 4, 5 ; Allii Asia Cent. p. 82. 



This is another species of the group of tall Alliums with 

 dense heads of mauve-purple flowers, of which two species, 

 A. Macleani, tab. 6707, and A. gigaktbum, tab. 6828, have 

 already been figured in the Botanical Magazine. In a 

 recent memoir by Dr. Regel on the Alliums of Central 

 Asia, he enumerates ninety-seven species as occurring 

 between the Caspian Sea and Mongolia, and of these more 

 than half are new species which have been discovered by 

 the recent Russian explorers. The present plant is a 

 native of the Kirghis Desert and the vicinity of Bokhara. 

 It was introduced into cultivation by Dr. Albert Regel and 

 named in compliment to Herr J. P. von Suworow, Medical 

 Inspector of the province of Turkestan. Our drawing was 

 made from a plant that flowered in the herbaceous ground 

 at Kew in May, 1887, which was received from Max 

 Leichtlin, and the plant was also flowered last summer by 

 Professor M. Foster, F.R.S., at Shelford, near Cambridge. 



Desce. Bulb ovoid, large, simple. Leaves six or seven, 

 arranged in a dense basal rosette, ensiform, a foot or a 

 foot and a half long, an inch broad, rather glaucous green, 

 flaccid, glabrous. Scape stout, terete, glaucous, stiffly 

 erect, two feet long. Umbel very dense, globose, two or 



may 1st!, 1888. 



