LEUCOCORYNE ALLIACEA. 
(Garlic-scented Leucocoryne.) 
Class. 
TRIANDRIA, 
Order, 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ASPHODELACEiE. 
Generic Character.— Per mn^/i salver-shaped, limb 
six-parted. Stamens, three fertile, rising out of the 
tube, three sterile, fleshy, terete, rising from the throat 
of the tube opposite the segments of the perianth. 
Hypogynous scales none. Ovary sessile, three-celled, 
many seeded. Style terete, articulated with the ovary. 
Stigma simple. 
Specific Character. — A bulbous perennial. Leaves 
long, linear, smooth. Flowers with a greenish-white 
streaked tube, and a limb deeply divided into six 
segments, nearly equal, acuminate, blue. Peduncles 
very unequal. 
Some of the species of Leucocoryne are better known to cultivators as Brodiceas, 
under which head they were first arranged and described. From that genus, how- 
ever, they have been separated by Dr. Lindley on account of the difference in the 
insertion of the fertile, and the texture of the sterile stamens ; and the present name, 
derived from leukos white, and Icoryne a, club, has been applied in allusion to the 
form and colour of the barren anthers. 
For the opportunity of bringing forward the present species, we are indebted to 
Mr. Hislop, the intelligent gardener to Colonel Howard, at Ashtead Park, near 
Epsom, who kindly sent us a flowering specimen in the beginning of April of the 
present year. He received it under the name of B. ixioides^ but it is evidently not 
the same species which has been figured under that name in the Bot. May., and 
which is described as having the spreading divisions of the flower of a green colour 
tinged with violet, whilst in our plant they are of a delicate lilac blue. 
Although not a new plant, having been in the country for several years, it is 
rather scarce, and considering that it admits of being increased with great facility, 
flowers freely, and possesses a colour which is comparatively rare and universally 
pleasing, its rarity appears a little extraordinary. Seeds are produced in great 
abundance and ripen well, thus providing an almost indefinite means of increase. 
In the greenhouse it is a desirable acquisition in the early spring months, 
especially as blue flowers are rather scanty. But it is equally adapted to adorn the 
window of the cottager ; and Mr. Hislop informs us that it has even been grown 
