Tab. 7843. 



MUSCART LATIFOLIUM. 



Native of Asia Minor. 



Nat. Ord. LiLiACE.E. — Tribe Scille.k. 

 Genus MusCAEi, Mill.; {Benth. & HooJc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p, 811.) 



MuscARi (Botryanthus) latifolium; bulbo parvo ovoideo, foliis 1-2, G-12 poll, 

 longis 1-2 poll, latis lineari- v. obovato-oblongia v. oblongo-lauceolatiu 

 snbacutis planis basi anguatatis scajjum vaginantibus, scaix) robiiHto 

 foliia longiore viridi, racemo 3-4 poll, longo cylindraceo detiHiliani, 

 floribus pendulia J poll, longis saturate atro-violaceis supremis niinoribiiH 

 pallidioribus clausis neutris, bracteis raiuutis, perianthio oblongo euhnr- 

 ceolato intus et extus glaucescente, lobis brevibus erectis concavis rotmi- 

 datia dorao incrassatis deranm recurvis, staminibns medio tubo insertis 

 uniseriatis, antheria inclusis cajruleis, ovario ovoideo ia etylum 3-lobura 

 attenuate, capsula membranacea, seminibua compressis. 



Jr. latifolium, J. Kirk in Jameson Eclinb. New. Phil. Journ. toI. vi. (]8.j8) 

 p. 80; in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinh. vol. vi. (1860) p. 30. Boiaa. Fhr. 

 Orient, vol. v. p. 294. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Boi. vol. xi. (1371) 

 p. 415. 



Bellevalia monopliylla, J. Gay ex Boisx. Ft. Orient, v. p. 29t. 



B. muscaroidea. Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. voL iii. (1859) p. 113. 



Muscari latifolium was discovered and brought to 

 Europe from Mt. Ida in Asia Minor by Dr. (now Sir John) 

 Kirk, F.R.S., and Dr. Armitage, when em])loyed in tlie 

 military hospital at Renkioi, during the Crimean War. 

 It has more recently been found in pine woods of the 

 Mouraddagh Mts. in Phrygia and in the Troad. The 

 specimen here figured differs greatly from the native ones, 

 and from the descriptions of Kirk, Masters, Boissier and 

 Baker, in its much larger size, the presence of two leaves, 

 the longer raceme, and much larger flowers, differences pro- 

 bably all due to cultivation. The Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 are indebted to those of Berlin for bulbs of this plant, 

 received in 1886. Like most other species of the genus, 

 it is an early flovverer. 



Dcscr. — Bnlb small, ovoid. Leni-p.s one or two, six to 

 twelve inches long, by one to two broad, linear- or obo- 

 vato oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, flat, narrowed 

 to the sheathing base, bright green. Scape longer than the 

 leaves, stout, naceme th°'ee to four inches long, cylindric, 



JULT IST, 1902. 



