Schuberti was discovered in the Plain of Jezreel, near 

 Nazareth, by the traveller whose name it bears. Bulbs of 

 it were received by the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1896, 

 from Messrs. Herb & "Wulle, Nurserymen, Naples, which 

 flowered in a sunny border in June, 1897. 



Descr. — Bulb as large as the fist, or larger, subterranean, 

 sub-globose or ovoid. Leaves a foot long by two inches 

 broad and upwards, widely spreading, broadly oblong- or 

 lorate-lanceolate, acuminate, flat, pale, bright green, 

 striated. Scape shorter than the leaves, half an inch in 

 diameter, terete, hollow, green. Umbels very large, 

 globose, very many-fld. (up to 200) ; involucre of two or 

 three bracts much shorter than the shorter pedicels. 

 Pedicels very unequal, strict, rigid, thickening gradually 

 upwards, the longer up to ten inches long, with sterile 

 flowers ; the shorter two to four inches long, with perfect 

 flowers. Perianth about two-thirds of an inch broad ; 

 segments shortly united at the base, lanceolate, spreading, 

 rigid and erect after flowering, rose-red. Stamens shorter 

 than the perianth segments, filaments connate at the base, 

 simple, subulate, red; anthers oblong, straw-coloured. 

 Ovary obovoid, 3-lobed, cells 3- or more-ovuled. — J. D. H. 



Tab. 7587, a quadrant of the umbel of A. Schuberti, and fig. 1 ripe fruL 

 of nat. size 



Tab. 7588 ; fig. 1, leaf, of nat. size ; 2, reduced figure of whole plant j 

 3, flower ; 4, pistil, both enlarged. 



