TAB. 4598. 
ALLIUM Casprium. 
Caspian Onion. 
Z 
Nat. Ord. ASPHODELE#Z.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Oalyx corollaceus, 6-sepalus, regularis, persistens ; sepala ima basi 
connata, uninervia, patentia vel campanulato-conniventia ; ixteriora sepe alius 
forme et longitudinis. Stamina 6, basi sepalorum inserta, exserta vel inclusa. 
Filamenta subulato-filiformia, inferne magis minusve dilatata, interiora sepe mem- 
branaceo-dilatata, superne ad utrumque latus dente, lobulo vel cuspide filiformi 
instructa ; exteriora semper inappendiculata, seepe breviora.et angustiora. dnthere 
biloculares, introrse, ellipticee vel oblong, basi sinuato-bilobee, dorso medio affixee, 
Ovarium liberum, sessile, tri- vel interdum, ob septa centrum haud attingentia, 
uniloculare ; ovuda in loculis duo, adscendentia, collateralia, rarissime plura (3-6) 
vel solitaria, campylotropa (amphitropa, Endt.). Stylus filiformis, erectus. Stigma 
obtusum vel capitellatum, interdum bifidum. Capsula membranacea, trigastra, tri-, 
rarius septis incompletis unilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis ; valvis medio septiferis ; 
stylo in axi demum libero, persistente. Semina in loculis 1 vel 2, rarissime plura, 
segmentum sphere referentia, angulo ventrali supra basin immediate affixa, atra, 
subtilissime granuloso-punctulata ; ¢esfa membranacea, albumini carnoso ‘adnata. 
Embryo parum excentricus (homotropus, Endl.), subperiphericus, cylindraceo-fili- 
formis, subuncinato-curvatus (falcatus, Nees ab Esenb.); radicula juxta hilum sita. 
—Herbe bulbose, olide ; bulbus tunicatus, interdum e rhizomate horizontals enatus. 
Scapi inferne foliati vel subnudi, solidi vel fistulosi. Folia canaliculata, semicy- 
lindracea vel teretia, sepius cava, interdum plana, plerumque angusta, Urtbella 
terminalis, spatha 1-2-valvi membranacea marcescente cincta, interdum bulbillifera. . 
Flores erecti, rarius pendulr, cum pedicellis haud articulati. Kth. 
Attium ({ Molium) Caspium; foliis oblongo-linearibus subacuminatis glaucis, 
umbella multiflora laxa ampla subglobosa, pedicellis longissimis strictis basi 
bracteolatis, sepalis oblongis obtusiusculis, staminibus sepala duplo fere 
superantibus. 
AuLium Caspium, Bieb. Flo. Taur. Caucas. v. 1. p. 265.0. 3. p. 260. Pall. It. 
v. 8. p. 548. Don, Mongr. All. 85. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 36. 
Kunth, Enum. Pl. v. 4. p. 445. 
AMARYLLIS Caspia, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 62. 
Crinum Caspium, Pall. It. App.n. 135. t. @. 
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Native of the deserts of Astrachan and Tezzier. Dr. Stocks 
finds it in Scinde, and obligingly sent bulbs to the Royal 
Gardens, which flowered in May 1851. It has so little of the 
ordinary appearance of an Onion, that Willdenow called it an 
AUGUST IsT, 1851. 
age 
