Tas. 7294, 
ALLIUM casuticum. ° 
Native of Kabul. 
Nat. Ord. Littacem, Tribe ALLIEA. 
Genus Attium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 802.) 
AutiuM (Molium) cabulieum ; bulbo globoso tunicis exterioribus membrana- 
ceis, folio solitario lorato-oblongo glabro ad basin sensim angustato, scapo 
brevi tereti glabro, umbellis multifloris, spath’4 monophylla ovata parva 
decidua, pedicellis strictis elongatis, perianthii segmentis lanceolatis 
demum reflexis albidis carina dorsali rubro-brunnea, staminibus periapthio 
wquilongis, filamentis squalibus filiformibus basi ovatis, antheris lineari- 
oblongis parvis, ovario globoso pubescente, stylo ovario sequilongo. 
The present Allinm belongs to the large section Molinm, 
which is marked by its ex-appendiculate outer filaments 
and symmetrical ovoid or globose bulbs. The best known 
species that represent this section are our wild British 
A. ursinum and the common South European 4. rosewm, 
neapolitanum and subhirsutum. The present plant is nearly 
allied to A. decipiens, Fisch. (A. tulipefolium, Ledeb.), and 
when we first got the bulbs and they produced their 
primordial leaves the plant might easily have been mistaken 
for a Tulip, if it had not been for its garlic scent. The 
bulbs of the plant here drawn and described were received 
at Kew from Dr. Aitchison, F.R.S., in March, 1885. © Dr. 
Aitchison informs us that it is cultivated at Kabul for the 
sake of its edible bulb, and that there is a field near the 
city which has been devoted to the cultivation of this and 
other onions for the last hundred years. We have also in 
the Kew Herbarium a dried specimen gathered at Kabul 
by General Sir Henry Collett, F.L.S. I cannot match it 
with any of the species described by Regel and Boissier. 
Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, in May, 1892. 
Descr. Bulb solitary, globose, an inch in diameter ; outer 
tunics pale, membranous. Leaf single, lorate-oblong, 
May Isr, 1893. 
