Tab. 7873. 



MUSCARI PARADOXUS. 



Nutioe of Persia. 



Nat. Orel. Liliace*. — Tribe Scille.k. 

 Genus Muscari, Mill. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 811.) 



Muscarj (BcUevalia) paradoxu?n ; bulbo majusculo ovoideo 2-4-foliato, foliis 

 1-1^-pedalibus 1-1| poll, latis lineari-loriformibuB obtnsiusculia basi vix 

 angustatis scapum vaginantibus coriaceo-carnods valde concayis dorso 

 rotundatis enerviis marginibus snbtiliter erosis, scapo robusto foliis multo 

 breviore, racemo oblongo-cylindraceo deneifloro, pedicelliB cernuis flores 

 subajquantibus, periantbio saturate violaceo oblongo-campanulato £ poll, 

 longo, lobis rotundatis tnbo triplo brevioribus concavis dorso incrassatis 

 apicibus dernum recurvis intus marginibusque viridibus, staminibus supra 

 medium tubi insertis filamentis brevissimis, antberarura loculis atro- 

 coeruleis, ovario late ovoideo in stylum brevem attenuato, capsuho £ ix>H. 

 latse erectaa subgloboso ovoideaa lobis ovoideis venosis dorso rotundatis 

 2-3-spermis, seminibuB ovoideo-oblongis. 



M. paradoxum, G. Koch in Linnpea, vol. xxii. (18J9) p. 253. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 

 vol. iv. p. 153. Baker in Journ. Bot. vol. xii. (1874) p. 6. 



M. pyenanthura, Boiss. et Buhse in JVouv. MSm. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xii. (18G0) 

 p. 213, ex parte, fide Boissier. 



Bellevalia paradoxa, Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. v. p. 308. 



B. pseudo-muscari, Boiss. et Buhse, Diagn. Plant. Orient. Ser. IT. vol. iv. 

 p. 110. 



Hyacinthus paradoxus, Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ; (1835) p. 30. 

 Schlecht. in Linnxa, vol. x. (1836) Lilt. Ber. p. 92. 



Botiyanthus? paradoxus, Eunth Eaum. PI. vol. iv. p. 312. 



The species of the genus Muscari are very difficult of 

 discrimination and of recognition from descriptions alone. 

 That here figured is well known under cultivation, and it 

 agrees fairlywell with the characters of Bellevalia paradoxa 

 given by Boissier, which is founded on the Muscari 

 paradoxum of Koch, but I have seen no native specimens 

 wherewith to confirm the identification, and the definition 

 of its author is quite insufficient for that purpose. Mr. 

 Baker, in the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xi., 

 p. 432 (not subsequently in the Journal of Botany), 

 unites with it M. montamim,, Koch (which Boissier refers 

 to another section of Belle valia), and gives as habitats 

 Svria and Palestine ; but M. paradoxum is not included in 

 Post's Flora of these countries. 



Muscari paradoxum was discovered by C. Koch in 



Januaky 1st. 1903. 



