Puate XXXIX. 
ALLIUM yeaporiranum, Cyrill. 
Natural Order LiLiacez. 
Gren. Cuar.—Dvwvisions of perianth 6, spreading or bell-shaped. 
Stamens inserted on or close to the base of the divisions of the perianth, 
filaments more or less dilated, the 3 innermost sometimes 3-fid ; anthers 
attached by the back. Flowers in umbels. Spathe of one or more 
valves. 
Spec. Cuar.—Umbel dense.. Spathel-valved. Divisions of perianth 
spreading, ovate, very obtuse. Leaves broadly linear, acuminate ; 
margins finely denticulate. Stem smooth, triangular, 2 of the angles 
acute and 1 obtuse. Bulb sometimes enclosing bulblets in its mem- 
branous covering. Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. 205. 
Allium neapolitanum, Cyrill. Pl. Rar. Neap. Fase. i. p. 13. t. 4 
(1788) ; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. 205; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 371. 
Hasirat.—Near the shore, under Lemon- and Orange-trees. March, - 
April. 
ReEmArKS.—This species is exempt from the strong garlic smell so 
generally possessed by members of this genus, but the juicy leaves and 
stem have a peculiar and disagreeable odour when bruised or held long 
in the hand. Allium neapolitanum, Cyrill., ranges from Andalusia and 
Granada, along the northern coast of the Mediterranean, to Greece, 
the Archipelago, and Palestine. It has been found on the banks of the 
Guadalquivir,* at Toulon, Hyéres, Cannes, Narbonne, Corsica (Gren. 
et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 205), near the aqueduct at Genoa, at Rome, 
Naples, Trau and Spalatro in Dalmatia (De Visiani, quoted in Rehb. 
Ic. Fl. Germ.), in Chios (Jaub. and Spach, Ill. Plant. Or.), and at 
Jerusalem.t The specimen figured was gathered near Pont St. Lonis, 
early in April, 1864. 
EXPLANATION OF Pirate XXXIX.—Fig. 1, a seed of the natural 
size. Fig. 2, the same, magnified. Fig. 3, margin of leaf, magnified. 
* There are specimens in the Hookerian Herbarium at Kew, gathered there by 
Bourgeau. 
+ In the Kew herbarium there is a specimen from Jerusalem of Boissier’s col- 
lecting. 
