Allium.] CLVI. LILIACE£. (J. D. Hooker.) 339 
** Leaves filiform. 
5. A. rubellum, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. i. 264; leaves l-terete or 
flattish, head subglobose, pedicels much longer than the very small cam- 
panulate rosy flowers, sepals oblong- or elliptic-oblong acuminate, filaments 
Included cohering at the very base all simple linear-lanceolate from a 
broad cuneate base inner broadest. Regel All. Monogr. 106; Fl. Tur- 
kest. t. 10, f. 9; G. Don Monogr. All. 36; Kunth Enum. iv. 399 ; Boiss. Fl. 
Orient. v, 253; Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 290. A. rubellum and grandi- 
forum, Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 171. A. leptophyllum, Wall. Cat. 5073 A; 
Kunth. l. c. 456. A. J acquemontii, Kunth Le 399. A. longisepalum, 
Bert. in Nov. Comm. Acad. Bonon. v. 429. A. tenue, G. Don Monogr. All. 
94; Koch in Linnea, xxii. 238. 
The PANJAB and WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 1500-8000 ft.; from Kashmir to 
umaon.— Distris. Westwards to the Ural and Caucasus, and in Siberia. 
Bulb small, ovoid-oblong, outer coats striate, inner membranous. Leaves 4-6, 
onger than the scapes, margins erose; sheaths elongate. Head 3-1 in. diam., 
Spathe entire or 2-4.fid at length circumciss. Sepals }-} in., twice as long as the 
stamens, which are subbasal on the sepals. Style short.—I have followed Boissier in 
the limitation of this species and its varieties. Regel refers Don’s tenue to A. Pallas, 
unge., which is described as having a long style; he retains as a species Boissier's 
` rifithianum, which the latter author has reduced to a variety of rubellum. 
AR. B. grandiflora, Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 258 ; pedicels longer, flowers larger, 
le CH in. long subacute, filaments much shorter and broader. A. Griffithianum, 
nice ag". Ser. 2, iv. 117; Regel All. Monogr. 108; Baker l.c. 290. A. vul- 
ticum, Boiss. in Plant. Kotsch. Pers. Bot. No. 49.—Kashmir, alt. 5—7000 ft. 
estward to Persia. . 
A AR. y. parviflora, Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 171; flowers smaller, sepals à in. Jong. 
Wen amanthum, C. Koch in Linnea, 22, 239; Regel All. Monogr. 110.— 
stern Himalaya, Westward to S. Russia. 
6. A. lilacinum, Royle mss.; leaves terete or channelled longer or 
shorter than the seape, head hemispheric, pedicels twice as long as te. 
nger than the campanulate small pale red flowers, sepals ovate or ovate- 
Neeolate acute or obtuse, filaments exserted inner 2-toothed at the very 
Regel All. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 293 
(uot of Schrad ). Monogr. 89. A. rubens, Ba 
WESTERN Him l twards. 
"Pi ALAYA, alt. 6—7000 ft. ; from Garwhal westw . 
Had ovoid ; coats scarious, red-brown. Leaves 2-3. Scape 8-10 in., fistular. 
l-1} in, diam. ; spathes 2, acuminate; pedicels 4-3 in. Sepals ¢ in. long, 
With the filame 
cree eet IL Razr. Bulbs solitary or clustered upon an erect or 
"Pig rootstock. Leaves flat. 
A. Scales 
nts inserted near their bases ; anthers large. 
of bulb membranous, not of reticulated fibres. 
* 
Stamens longer than the perianth. 
7. A bland ar. iii 960; tall, stout, leaves 
. um, Wall. Pl. As. Rar, iii. 38, t. 260; ta^, 
itt broadly linear obtuse shorter than the tall scape, head, globose voy 
thn Ad., pedicels shorter than the campanulate pale pink Pwah , Fam 
iv, ig tuse, filaments simple subulate much exerted, iv Jotzsch $ 
G | Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 995. A. obtusifolium, 
» Bot. Reise P». Wald. 51, t. 95. 
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