Allium.] CLVI. LILIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 343 
with: Ovary broadly obcordate, style exserted. Capsule 4 in. diam. cuneately 
obcordate. aa: 
Var. angustifolia ; leaves 4—14 in. broad, flowers pale pink.—Interior of Sikkim, 
alt. 10-12,000 ft. West Nepal, Duthie. 
19. A. Schrenki, Regel All. Monogr. 172; leaves linear flat shorter 
than the terete striate scape, head globose, pedicels shorter than the 
purplish campanulate perianth, filaments simple shortly exserted. 
Himataya Mrs., Hort. Calcutt. (Regel.).—Distx1B. Siberia. 
Bulbs subcylindric, inserted on a stout cylindric rootstock ; outer scales densely 
fibrous, reticulate, brown. Leaves 3-4 below the middle of the scape, 5—4 in. broad. 
Scape 8-16 in., striate and grooved towards the top, strict or flexuous. Head many- 
M; spathes scarious, white, shorter than the head; flowering pedicels jj in., 
Shorter than the perianth, at length X in. Filaments unequal, outer linear-subulate, 
nner subulate from a lanceolate base. Ovary ovoid, 3-gonous; style at length very 
stigma eapitate.—I have seen no Himalayan specimen. Regel says it differs from 
Widely diffused A. strictum, Schrad. in the capitate stigma, 
** Stamens shorter than the perianth. 
. 20. A. odorum, Linn. Mant. 62; leaves many basal very narrowly 
linear flattish keeled shorter than the terete slender scape, head many or 
*w-fid., pedicels much or rather longer than the small white campanuiate 
Penanth, filaments shorter than and adnate below to the obovate-oblong 
p nate or subacute sepals triangular-lanceolate, style included. Kunth 
am. lv. 185; Regel All. Monogr. 175; (ecl. Syn. tuberosum, &c.) Baker 
hs Journ. Bot. 1874, 291; Redouté Lil. t. 98; Bot. Mag. t. 1142. A. 
taricum, Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2, ii. 233. 
De ESTERN TIBET; alt. 10-14,000 ft., Thomson. WESTERN NEPAL, alt. 13,000 ft., 
thie.— Diere. N. Asia, Japan. Dl. . 
ulb 1-4 in, clustered on an oblique jointed rootstock, subcylindric or conic ; 
su “finely reticulate, white brown or blackish. Leaves many, 6-24 by rs in., 
tt. Scape terete or angled at the tip. Head 1-1} in. diam. ; spathes s ort, 
jh nate ; pedicels short, filiform, angled, flowering } in., fruiting H M he ee 
a, with usually a strong nerve. Filaments subequal, outer dilate a the D ? 
* ovate with a subulate tip. Ovary subglobose, trigonous. Capsule subglobose. 
n tuberosum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 24; Fl. Ind. n. 141; leaves 
h basal erect narrow-linear flat tall compressed or trigonous above, 
stel] pref. pedicels much longer than the small white or pink 
eluded flowers, sepals oblong-lanceolate, filaments simple linear in 
Fa connate below and perigynous, style short. Baker in ourn. 
G Det 292; Kunth Enum. iv. 454; Wall. Cat. 5068. A. Rox urghi, 
6j. po Monogr, AU. 91. Kunth l.c. 454. A. uliginosum, G. Don. te 
Déeg Le, 422, A. senescens, Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. m. M 
pa ES Howaray d alt. 5-6000 ft. (apparently wild). 
G ALAYA, Royle. Kuasia MTS., j ` 
72 &e. Cultivated in BENGAL, Roxburgh.—DistR1B. China, Siam, Japan. — 
Leave Ongate, cylindric, with white fleshy root-fibres : scales grey, brous, 
8 6-12 b Tg-$ in.; sometimes concave and twisted. Scape 1-14 ft. im 
in 8, e hemispheric, 1-1} in. diam., spathes 1-2 small: pedicels ascending, gë 
Ke 1-4 in. ; acute or obtuse, at length reflexed, filaments inserted on uter 
e the Sepals, gradually dilated from below the middle to the base, oute 
tooth, broader, Ovary globosely obovoid, deeply 3-lobed ; stigma 0 seur y, 
4. odoru, Cells 3-ovuled. Capsule obcordate.— Regel cites this as a synon m o 
VER éi and it is possible that it may be the cultivated form of that plant. 
* Specimens are from the Mission Garden, Tranquebar. 
