Tan. 6707. 
ALLIUM MAcLEANI. 
Native of Cabul. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacez.—Tribe ALLIEZ. 
Genus Auiium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 802.) 
Attium (Molium) Macleanii; bulbo globoso, foliis 4-5 lanceolatis glabris pedalibus, 
pedunculo tereti 2-3-pedali, umbello globoso maultifloro pedicellis strictis 
elongatis, spathe valvis oblongo-lanceolatis pedicellis multo brevioribus, 
perianthii parvi pallide purpurei segmeatis oblongo-lanceolatis flore expanso 
nears genitalibus perianthio 14-2-plo longioribus, filamentis conformibus 
eas ovario viridi trilobato granulato, ovulis in loculo geminis collatera- 
ibus. 
This is a fine new tall many-flowered Allium, of which 
the bulbs were brought from Cabul by Colonel Maclean. 
It was flowered for the first time last summer by Mr. James 
Wilson, of St. Andrews, from whose plant the present 
drawing was made. It does not resemble any known 
European, Oriental, or Himalayan species, but we have, in 
the Kew Herbarium, a closely-allied undescribed species 
from Beluchistan, gathered by Dr. Stocks, and it also 
nearly resembles two of Dr. Regel’s new species from 
Central Asia, A. stipitatum and A. Swwarowi, both of which 
have lately been figured in the Gartenflora, on Plate 1062. 
Desor. Bulbs symmetrical, solitary, globose. Leaves 
four or five, contemporary with the flowers, evanescent, 
lanceolate, green, about a foot long, an inch or an inch and 
a half broad, flat, glabrous both upon the surfaces and 
margins. Peduncle terete, flexuose, moderately stout, two 
or three feet long. Umbel dense, globose, three or four 
inches in diameter; spathe-valves two, oblong-lanceolate, 
membranous, evanescent, much shorter than the pedicels, 
which are stiff and slender, and attain a length of one and 
a half or two inches. Perianth mauve-purple, a quarter of 
an inch long; segments oblong-lanceolate, acute, spreading 
horizontally when fully expanded, furnished with a distinct 
auaust lst, 1883. 
