PLATE CVII. 



ALLIUM GRACILE. 



Sweet-fcented Garlic. 



CLASS VI. ORDER I. 



HEXANDRIA M0N0GYN1A. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Spatha communis, fubrotunda, mar- 



cefcens, multiflora. 

 Corolla. Petala fex, oblonga. 

 Stamina. Filamenta fex, fubulata, longitudine 



faepe corolloe. Antherae oblongae, .ere£lae. 



Pistillum. Germen fuperum, breve, fubtri- 

 gonum, angulis linea infculptis. Stylus 

 fimplex. Stigma acutum. 



Pekicarpium. Capfula breviflima, lata, triloba, 

 trilocularis, trivalvis. 



Semina pauca, fubrotunda. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. Spath common, roundifli, wi- 

 thering, incloling many flowers. 



Blossom. Petals fix, oblong. 



Chives. Six threads, awl-fhaped, often the 

 length of the blolTom. Tips oblong, up- 

 right. 



Pointal. Seed-bud above, ihort, nearly three- 

 fided, the angles marked by a line. Shaft 

 fimple. Summit pointed. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule very lho; t, broad, of three 

 lobes, three cells, and three valves. 



Seeds a few, roundifli. 



Allium fcapo nudo, tereti, longiflimo; foliis ca 

 naliculatis, linearibus; umbella multiflora; 

 corollis albidis; ftaminibus fubulatis, ad 

 bafin cum petalis definentibus in tubum. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Garli^with a naked flower-flem, cylindrical, and 

 very long; leaves channelled, and linear} 

 umbel many flowered; bloflbms white; 

 chives awl-fhaped, terminating with the 

 petals at the bafe in a tube. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The Bloffom cut open. 



2. One Petal of the Bloffom and its Chive, magnified. 



3. The Pointal and Seed-bud. 



4. A Capfule with ripe Seeds. 



From a plant in the collection of J. Vere, Efij. Kenfington Gore, our drawing was made, this year, 

 early in the month of May; and from an accurate fcrutiny, are inclined to think it might be con- 

 fidered as a new genus; for certainly it does not well affine to the one here ailigned it, in feveral 

 inftances; but as our profelfed principles are, as rarely as poflible, to increafe the number of genera, 

 we have retained it under Allium. The flowers of this plant are fragrant in the extreme, at night; 

 fo much fo, that one is fuffkieiit to fcent a large room; the flavour fomething like the Heliotrope. 

 Being a native of Barbadoes, from whence it was fent by Mr. J. Ellcock in 1791» to Melfrs. Lee and 

 Kennedy, Hammerfmith, it requires the heat of a hothoufe, where, without the affiflance of the bark 

 bed, it will flower, and increafe from the bulb abundantly. 



