Refugium Botanicum.| (January, 1870. 
TAB. 173. 
Natural Order Linrace”. 
Tribe HyacinTHE”. 
Genus Muscart, J’ourn. 
Sub-genus Borryanruus, Kunth. 
M. cranpiroiium (Baker). Foliis 5—6 ensiformibus planiusculis flac- 
cidis carnoso-herbaceis glaucescentibus sesquipedalibus vel bipedali- 
bus, scapo foliis quadruplo breviore, racemo denso 15—20-floro, 
pedicellis cernuis floribus subtriplo brevioribus, perigonio livide 
ceruleo oblongo-rotundato sesqui longiore quam crasso, superne 
nullo modo angulato, fauce distincte constricto, dentibus deltoideis 
albidis recurvatis tubo 5—6-plo brevioribus. 
Drawn from the Kew collection. The history and precise 
country of the plant are not known, but the genus is restricted to 
the southern half of Europe, Barbary and the Orient. 
Bulb roundish, an inch thick. Leaves five or six to a scape, 
ensiform, flaccid, fleshy in texture, pale glaucous-green, a foot 
and a half or finally two feet long, half an inch broad, the sides 
nearly parallel for a considerable distance and the upper part 
very little concave on the face. Scape erect, firm, terete, four or 
five inches high exclusive of the raceme. Raceme densely 
fifteen- to twenty-flowered, the lower pedicels an eighth of an 
inch long and drooping very much. Perianth roundish-oblong, 
a quarter of an inch deep, half as long again as broad, not at all 
angular in the upper half when fresh, the throat distinctly con- 
stricted. Lower flowers a dark livid blue, the upper ones brighter, 
the uppermost reduced, subsessile and abortive. T'eeth deltoid, 
not pure white, recurved, about a sixth as long as the tube. 
Stamens, ovary and style as in the other species of the section 
“Botryanthus. Capsule four lines deep, acutely trigonous. In full 
flower at Kew, in the open air, the last fortnight in April. 
This species is on a larger scale than any of the previously 
described species of Botryanthus, and the leaves are very dif- 
ferent to those of any of them and more like those of M. 
moschatum. ‘The shape of the perianth is like that of M. botry- 
oides, but it is considerably larger and a different colour, and the 
plant is a fortnight later in flower. 
Tab. 1738.—1, perianth; 2, the same opened: both magnified. — 
vo G.. B. 
