ALLIUM ftaminibus alterne rrifidis, folds gramineis, floribus 



fphaerice congeftis, radice fobolifera. Hall. Opufc. 344. n. 5. 



de AIL n. 5. 

 SCORODOPRASUM. I. Ouf. Hijl. 190. 

 Porros bravos. Lujitanis. 

 ((3.) minor, ftibtripedalis ; flore fuaveolente, laete purpureo- 



rubente. G. 

 ALLIUM Ampeloprqfum. Thunb. Prod. Fl. Capenf. 65. 

 ALLIUM rubicundum. Herbar. Bank/, : exemplar a Majfono ad 



Prom. Bon<e Spei leBum* 



The prefent plant differs from that which we have given iff 

 No. 1385, chiefly in being throughout greatly inferior in fize, 

 and in having bright purple flowers which are very fragrant. 

 That is native of the fouthern parts of Europe, and hardy ; this 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence the plant now figured 

 was fent by Mr. Niven to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy of 

 Hammerfmith, who cultivated it in their greenhoufe, where it 

 blooms about July. A fpecimen, gathered by Mr. Masson at 

 the Cape, is depofited in the Bankfian Herbarium, under the 

 title of rubicundum, where it is confidered as diftincl from Am- 

 peloprqfum ,• but fince we can detett no other differences than 

 thofe above noticed, we have recorded it as a variety of that 

 fpecies. Thunberg has given it as Ampeloprajum in his Pro- 

 dromus of the Cape Flora. The leaves decay before the period 

 of flowering is pafl, while their lower hltular portion becomes 

 dry, and /heaths the ftem in that ftate beyond its middle. 

 The umbel, when dried in a fheltered place, preferves the fine 

 colour of the corollas long after the feed has dropped from the 

 capfules, which are white and lie within the flower, where they 

 expand themfelves, giving to that the appearance of being 

 double, or of a coloured calyx to a white corolla. Produces 

 offsets and feed in abundance, by which it is propagated- 

 In a note at the end of the article in No. 1408, we have directed 

 the variety j3 of No. 1385 to be expunged, along with the 

 fynonym from Wai.dstein and Kit aib el's work on the rare 

 Hungarian plants, as belonging to arenarium, of which it feero> 

 to be a non-bulbiferous variety ; the fame correction fhould be 

 made in the fecond edition of the Hortus Kewenfis. G* 



