Tas. 7982. 
ALLIUM ALBOPILOSUM. 
Native of Southern Turkestan. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacza.—Tribe ALLIER. 
Genus Auiium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 802.) 
Autium (Molium) albopilosum ; herba robusta, bulbo globoso, foliis ligulatis 
vel lanceolatis acuminatis vel acutis supra glabris subtus albopilosis ad 
18 poll. longis et 1} poll. latis, seapo 1 ped. alto 5 lin, diam. glabro tereti 
circa 80-floro, spathis 3 latis acuminatis membranaceis, pedicellis 2 poll. 
longis teretibus glabris, perianthii segmentis linearibus acuminatis 
obscure lilacinis 10 lin. longis 1 lin. latis post anthesin rigidibus, 
staminibus uniformibus quam perianthii segmentis dimidio brevioribus, 
filamentis subulatis basi dilatatis atropurpureis, antheris oblongis, 
pollinis granis cesio-viridibus, ovario trilobo minute verrucoso viridi, 
stylo subulato 3 lin. longo. 
S. albopilosum, CO. H. Wright in Gard. Chron, 1903, vol. ii. p. 34, cum fig. ; 
Gardening World, Aug. 29, 1903, cum fig. 
* 
The genus Alliwm now contains nearly 300 described 
species, and is remarkable for being one of the few genera 
in which three primary colours are represented in the 
flowers. Those of A. kansuense, Regel (Bot. Mag. t. 
7290) and A. cerulewm, Pall., are blue; those of A. flavum, 
Linn. (t. 1330), and A. Moly, Linn. (t. 499) are yellow, while 
various shades of red are exhibited by A. acuminatum, 
Hook., A. narcissiflorum, Vill. (t. 6182), and other species. 
Further, not a few are white-flowered. : 
A. albopilosum is the largest flowered species of the 
genus, being approached only by the closely allied A. 
Christophi, Trautv. (Incr. Fl. Phen. Ross, p. 782) in which 
the filaments are of a different shape. 
This species was collected for Mr. Van 'l'ubergen, Junr., 
of Haarlem, in 1901, by Mr. Sintenis “in the mountain 
range which divides Transcaspia from Persia.” It 
flowered in June, 1902, in the garden of the Hon. Charles 
Ellis, Frensham Hall, Shottermill, and he presented 
plants to Kew, which flowered in a border in the herba- 
ceous ground in June of last year, and subsequently 
ripened seeds. 
NovemBer Ist, 1904, 
