Puate LXXXVIII. 
NECTAROSCORDUM sicutum, Lindl. 
Natural Order Liniacez. 
Gen. Cuar.—Perianth almost bell-shaped, of 6-8* dissimilar segments 
which are united at the base, and forma discoid tube in which the ovary 
is partly immersed ; outer segments oblongo-elliptic, having a nectariferous 
depression at the base; mner segments broadly ovate, abruptly contracted 
below into a narrow claw. Stamens 6-8,* inserted on the tube, nearly 
similar in length and form; jilaments simple, subulate; anthers sub- 
oblong, bilobed at base, fixed near the base at the back, cells parallel, 
introrse. Ovary depressed, sub-disciform, about one-third immersed in 
-the perianth tube (having nectariferous apertures at the apices of the 
thickened sutures, Parl.), 3- or, imperfectly, 8-celled.* Style subulaie, 
gynobasic. Capsule 3-4 valved,* enclosed within and adherent at the 
base to the persistent segments of the perianth, having a small circular 
pit on the back. Seeds compressed, angular, testa black, minutely 
punctate. 
Spec. Cuar.—Pedicels enlarged below the flower, recurved during 
the expansion of the flowers, erect in fruit. Scape 2-3ft. high, surrounded 
at the base by a dilated sheathing leaf, which completely encloses it when 
young, and divides along the central line of its surface in the upper third 
of its length to admit of the passage of the umbel of buds then enclosed 
in their spathe. Leaves broadly linear, channelled, and strongly keeled, 
so as to be almost triquetrous, spirally twisted above, making 2-3 turns, 
all, with the exception of the sheathing leaf described above, free from 
the base of the scape. Bulb simple. 
Nectaroscordum siculum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. (1836), p. 1913, tab. 1912 ; 
Parl. Fl. Ital. ii. 584; Ardoino Fl. Alp. Mar. p. 380; Allium siculum, Ve. 
Pl. ad Linn. opus addend. No. 7. (Parl.); Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. 
212; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 371. 
Hasitar.—Petite Suiviere du Malpey 4!Esterel, on the southern slope 
of a mountain forming part of the Esterel range, named in Cassini’s map the 
Montaigne de Montuby, at 1200 ft. above the sea. Collected by my father, 
in flower on May 9, 1869, and in seed on Nov. 9, of the same year. 
Remarks.—This plant seems quite sufficiently distinct from any known 
species of Allium to allow of its being placed in a distinct genus, but no 
one who has gathered or dissected fresh specimens will fail to be reminded 
* The increased number of parts is only found in the 2 or 3 first expanded and 
central flowers of well developed inflorescences, and not at all in small and few-flowered 
umbels. 
