The Allium Sidvia found in Nepal by Dr. Hamilton 
seems to be nearly^related to this, but we have seen no 
specimen of it; and Mr. Don describes it as having a 
many-flowered umbel, with small flowers, which those 
of A. fragrans can scarcely be termed. 
Leaves a foot long, weak, difl*use, glaucous, linear, 
channelled, obtuse, and twisted at the end. Scape smooth, 
erect, round, a little longer than the leaves, glaucous, with 
a little red at the base. Umbel 6-flowered, with a short, 
scarious, 2-leaved spatha. Pedicels long, slender, rigid. 
Flowers very fragrant, 6-cleft, turbinate, with white, 
spreading, blunt, equal, concave segments, and a green 
tube. Stamens 6,. nearly the length of perianth, erect, 
inserted into the mouth of the tube. Filaments linear- 
lanceolate, white, green at base. Pollen yellow. Ovary 
cylindrical, 6-ribbed, very smooth. Style the length of 
stamens. Stigma small, simple, depressed. 
