Dianeila.] CLVI. LILIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 337 
or compressed; testa black, shining; albumen fleshy.—Species 7 or 8; 
tropical Asiatic, Mascarene, Australia and Polynesia. 
D. ensifolia, Redouté Lil. t. 1; stem leafy, sheaths acutely keeled, 
flament greatly thickened at the very top. Kunth Enum. v. 50; Baker 
Jm. Linn. Soc. xiv. 576; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 16 ; Bot. Mag. t. 
M04; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 560; D. odorata, Blume Enum. i. 13; 
Kunth. Le 51: D. nemorosa, Lamk. Encycl. ii. 276; Jacg. Hort. Schoenb. 
l 49, t. 94, Wall. Cat. 5169; Miquel Ù c.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 164. D 
javanica, Kunth l. c. 52; Miquel l.c. 561. D. sandvicensis, Hook. & Arn. 
Bot. Beech. Voy. 97. Rhuacophila javanica, Blume l.c. 14. Antherium 
peranthera, Forst. Prodr. No. 149. Phalangium Adenanthera, Poir. 
nCycl. v. 252, 
Troricar HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards, alt. 2-5000 ft., the KHASIA 
ILLS, MUNNIPORE, and BURMA. CEYLON ascending to 4000 ft.—DrsTRIB. East- 
vards to Australia and the Pacific, Mascarene Islds. 
tem 3-6 ft., rigid. Leaves lower 1-2 ft. by 1-13 in., linear-lanceolate, keel and 
SET smooth or scabrid; sheaths long. Panicle 1-2 ft., cuneiform, pedicels 
ort, rigid, slender; bracts spathaceous; flowers inodorous. Perianth white 
greenish or bluish, segments ZA in.; 3 inner reflexed. Anthers linear, 2-porose. 
Sigg purple, or blue, j in. diam., cells 1-3- or- more seeded. Seeds ovoid, 
17. ALLIUM, Lina. 
He Scapigerous herbs; bulbs coated. Leaves usually narrow, often 
Ze owers capitate or umbelled, all at first enclosed in 1-3 mem- 
2008 spathes, stellate or campanulate ; sepals 6, free or connate below. 
bel JPogynous or inserted on the perianth; filaments free or connate 
invi, "hers oblong. Ovary 3-gonous, 3-celled : style filiform, stigma 
ie, cells few-ovuled. Capsule small, loculicidal. Seeds few, com- 
» testa black.—Species about 250, in all N. temp. regions. 
“ Ki following account of the Indian Allia I have been much aided by Regel s 
Tom mm Monographia ” and Baker's paper in the Journal of Botany, but I am far 
“atisfied as to the limitation of the sections, and the disposal of the species in 
ma map Det, I expect that more complete Indian and Central Asiatic collections 
in [Ir "y the results given below. The following species are extensively cultiva 
i, tte j ii ia, Hi in Don 
P LONICUM, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 142. A. Sulvia, Tam. in De 
Ger A. fragrans 8 nepalensis, Bot. Reg. t. 898. Nothoscordium? Sulvia, 
» ped iv. 402; leaves basal and scape stout fistular, head globose very many- 
Shallot iels very short, perianth white stellate, inner filaments 2-toothed.—The 
d edel Linn. A. Porrum, Linn. Rozb. l. c. ii. 141 ; Wall. Cat 
Blobose m leafy, leaves linear flat keeled shorter than the tall terete scape, hea 
ers ind. many- and dense-fld., pedicels longer than the campanulate white 
Dh er filaments 2-toothed.—The Leek. Ham. 
leaves suka? L9. 3 Rood. L c. 142; Wall, Cat. 5072. A. Cumaria, Herb. Hay ^; 
ad bulbi 'stichous fistular shorter than the inflated scape, head bearing flowers 
"üterted in Pedicels shorter than the stellate flowers, sepals linear-oblong, 
Che ena Kloe inner 2-toothed at the base.— The Onion. der, spathes long 
»Linn.; Boch l. c. 142; leaves flat, scape slender, st long- 
Senta 2, bearing bulbils and flowers, sepals lanceolate acuminate, inner 
VoL, vr. hed.—The Garlic. ; 
