356 CLVI. LILIACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gagea. 
as the perianth, seeds compressed not angled or winged. G. amblyopetala, 
var. bulbifera, Boiss.; Regel Fl. Turkest. 112, t. 17 (non Boiss.). 
stipitata, Merkl. in Bunge Rel. Haenk. 512. Bulbillaria gageoides, Zuce. 
in Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Bay. iii. 230, t. 2, f. 1. Lloydia kunawarensis, 
Royle Lil. 388, t. 93, f. 3. 
Western HIMALAYA; from Kunawur to ‘Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft., Royle, &c. 
—DisrRIB. Westwards to Persia, Turkestan. . 
Bulb solitary in the coats. Radical leaf 4-6 by }-} in. Stem 4-6 in., glabrous, 
very slender. Cymes 1-2 in., often with bulbils in the axils of the short ve 
slender pedicels, Sepals linear, obtuse; filaments nearly as long, anthers geg 
didymous. Capsule nearly as long as the perianth. Seeds compressed, not angle 
or winged. 
3. G. reticulata, Schultes f. Syst. vii. 542; leaves all very long 
filiform recurved cauline numerous subverticilate, flowers many SU» 
umbellate, sepals 1-i in. long acute or finely acuminate, capsule as on 
as the perianth, seeds flat angular. Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 208; Reichb. Ft. 
Germ. x. t. 481; Regel Fl. Turkest. 110, t. 19, f. 1-4; Eent, Alger. 
t. 45 bis, f. 1. G. taurica, Stev. Taur. 335 (ex Boiss.) G. commutata, 
sarmentosa, and triphylla, C. Koch in Linnea, xxii. 227-230. G. pedunct: 
lata, Wall. Cat. 5066. 
The PANJAB PLAINS; ascending the Western Himalaya, Salt Range, &c., to 
5500 ft.— DrsrRIB. Westwards to Greece and N. Africa, Turkestan. in 
Bulb densely fibrilliferous. Stem 2-8 in., stout or slender. Leaves 4-8 - 
cauline usually very many, and long, rarely few and short. Flowers numero" 
very variable in size, green with a white border. Anthers linear-oblong. 
26. COLCHICUM, Linn. 
Corm coated. Leaves radical, linear or lanceolate. Scape very ebore 
sessile amongst the leaf-sheaths, 1-3-fld. Flowers large, erect. P iem 
funnel-shaped; tube very long and slender; lobes 6, subequal, guberec 
Stamens 6, inserted in the bases of the segments, included ; anthers dorsi- 
fixed, versatile, introrse. Ovary sessile, 3-celled; styles 3, long, filiform 
cells many-ovuled. Capsule chartaceous, septicidal. Seeds subglobose ; tes 
appressed brown.—Species about 30, Europe, N. Africa and temp. Asia. 
DG. luteum, Baker in Gard. Chron. (1874) 33; Journ. Linn. Bor 
xvii. 434; leaves appearing with the flowers linear-oblong or (opp 
late obtuse, perianth golden yellow, tube 3-4 in., segments oblong : d 
oblanceolate obtuse many-nerved. Bot. Mag. t. 6153. Melanthacem, "i 
Notul. iii. 241 ; Tc. Pl. Asiat. t. 278, f. 2. . 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 4-7000 ft., Thomson n 
Chamba, Ellis, &c.—DISTRIB. Affghanistan, Turkestan. t the 
Corm gibbously ovoid, coats dark brown. Leaves few, lorate, short a ing 
flowering time, at fruiting 6-12 by 1-3 in., tip rounded. Flowers 1-2 (in spring 
1-1} in. diam. when expanded. Stamens shorter than the perianth ; filaments the 
much shorter than the long yellow anthers. Style filiform, much longer than 
perianth. Capsule 1-1} in.; valves with long recurved beaks. 
27. MERENDERA, Ramond. 
i . ee 
Habitand characters of Colchicum, but with the perianth-segmenta er 
to their base, their loag slenler claws forming a tube, and the an 
