Tab. 7587-8. 

 ALLIUM Schuberti. 



Native of Western Asia. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace^. — Tribe Allied. 

 Genus Allium, Linn. ; (Benih. & Hoolt.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 802.) 



Allium (Molium) Schuberti ; bulbo crasso ovoideo v. subgloboso, foliis radi- 

 calibus pedalibus 2-poll. latis patentibns late lorato-lanceolatis planis 

 plus minus undulatis marginibns scaberulis, scapo foliis breviore terite 

 crasso nudo, spatha brevi 2-3-valvi, umbella amplissima globosa 50-200- 

 flora saepiuspolygama, pedicellis rigidis flores multoties longioribus valde 

 inaequalibus longioribus sterilibus 6-10-poll. longis, brevioribus 2-4- 

 poll. longis omnibus apicem versus sensim incrassatis, floribus § poll, 

 expansis roseis, segmentis ima basi connatis lanceolatis acutis stamina 

 fere duplo snperantibus patnlis post anthesin suberectis, filauientis basi 

 connatis subnlatis rubris, antheris oblorigis stramiDeis, ovario obovoideo 

 3-lobo, loculis 1-3-spermis, seminibus magnis trigonis atris opacis. 



A. Schuberti, Zuccarini in Abh. Bayer. Alcad. vol. iii. (1843) p. 234, t. 3, f. 1. 

 Kunih, Enum. PI. vol. iv. p. 689. Begel, Monog. Allium, p. 239; All. 

 Sp As. Centr. pp. 21, 117. Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. v, p. 279. Wien. III. 

 Qartenzeit. 1895, p. 283, f. 26. 



This very remarkable species of Allium has an ex- 

 tended geographical distribution in Western Asia, from 

 Syria and Palestine to Mesopotamia, North Persia, Soon- 

 garia, and Western Turkestan. It belongs to a very small 

 group of the genus, characterized by having more than two 

 ovules in each cell of the ovary, to which the name of 

 Melanocrommyum was given by its author (Webb et Berth. 

 Phyt. Canar. iii. III. 347) from the fact of A. nigrum, L., 

 being the species on which the section was founded. In 

 the more generally adopted sectional grouping of Allium, 

 A. Schuberti is referred to Molium, which includes those 

 species of the huge genus in which the scape and base of 

 the leaves are underground, the leaves approximately flat, 

 the involucral bracts shorter than the pedicels, and the 

 filaments usually simple. As a species A. Schuberti is 

 unrivalled for the length of .the pedicels, which, together 

 with the colour of the flowers, and broad, long leaves, 

 render it a very striking horticultural object. A, 

 April 1st, 1898. 



