Tas. 7796. 
ALLIUM Ostrowsktanum. 
Native of Western Turkestan. 
Nat. Ord. Litiacra.—Tribe ALLIEA. 
Genus Atiium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 802.) 
ALLIUM (Schenoprasum) Ostrowskianum; bulbo subgloboso, tunicis tenuibus 
integris, foliis 2 supra-basilaribus umbellam superantibus ad 3 poll. latis 
linearibus acuminatis concavis flaccidis glaucis, spathee valvis ovatis 
acaminatis pedicellis filiformibus pollicaribus multoties brevioribus, um- 
bella globosa multiflora capsulifera, perianthii segmentis basi connatis 
ellipticis subacutis ad } poll. longis late roseis interioribus majoribus, 
filamentis supra basin segmentorum insertis ima basi connatis exteriori- 
bus triangularibus brevissime mucronatis interioribus angustioribus, 
antheris oblongis apiculatis, ovario substipitato late ovoideo trilobo, 
stylo brevi, stigmate minuto 8-lobo. 
A. Ostrowskianum, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. vii. (1880) p. 545; 
Gartenfl. vol. xxxi. (1882) p. 225, t. 1089. 
The very handsome Allium here figured was discovered 
in Western Turkestan by Mr. Fetisow, who sent bulbs of it 
to the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg, 
where it was described by the monographer of the genus, 
Dr. Regel. It bears the name of the Russian Minister of 
Imperial Domains, Michael Nicolajewitsch von Ostrowski, a 
liberal promoter of science. It has long been in cultivation 
in the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowers annually in 
an open border, but the specimen figured was communicated 
by the Hon. Charles Ellis, of Trensham Hall, Haslemere, 
in June of last year. 
Descr.—Bulb sub-globose, outer seeds thin, entire. 
Leaves two, a foot and a half to two feet long, by two- 
thirds of an inch broad, linear, acuminate, concave above, 
flaccid, pale green, glaucous. Scape much shorter than 
the leaves, slender, terete. Umbel globose, laxly many- 
flowered, about three and a half inches in diameter. 
Spathes two, very short, ovate, acuminate. Pedicels an 
inch long, very slender. Flowers cup-shaped. Perianth- 
seyments half an inch long, bright rose-red, with a green 
median nerve, elliptic, sub-acute, connate at the base, 
inner much smaller. Stamens half the length of the 
Janvaky Ist, 1901. 
