Mitta, head gardener at the Royal Garden at Madrid. 
When bruised, our species yields the most powerful smell 
of garlic. 
Descr. “ Bulb ovate, forming new ones at the base. 
Leaves (one foot long, two and a half lines broad) all ra- 
dical, glaucous, glabrous, linear; concave in their upper 
surface, keeled below, blunt. Scape (four to five inches 
high) erect, glabrous green, very slightly compressed. 
Spatha bidentate, segments connivent, rather unequal in 
length, and the division extending farther down on one side 
than the other. Peduncle generally longer than the spatha, 
nearly cylindrical, green. Corolla (one inch and a half 
across when expanded) six-cleft, marked from the base of 
the tube to the apex of the segments with six dark lines 
which are purplish-green behind, lilac in front; tube cla- 
vate, naked ; segments of the limb rather longer than the 
tube, spreading, ovate, acute, their sides involute at the 
apex, imbricated, the inner segments the narrowest. Sta- 
mens six, of unequal length, adhering to the tube to une- 
qual heights, subcompressed ; anthers yellow, oblong, bifid 
at both ends, lobes acute ; pollen yellow, granules minute. 
Stigma capitate, small, white, pubescent. Style included, 
grooved. Germen superior, rather shorter than the style, 
oblong, six-furrowed, tri-locular. Ovules numerous, green, 
placenta central. Capsule clavate, depressed at the apex.” 
Graham. 
Fig. 1. Inner view of the tube of the Flower, with the Stamens and Pistil : 
—magnified. 
