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Auuium Cowant. Mr. Cowan’s Onion. 
KEKE EERE EKER KERR EE 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—AsPHoDELEZ. ) 
Generic Character. 
Corolla 6-petala, patens. Filamenta vel xqualia peta- 
lorum basi inserta, vel basi dilatata subconnata, vel 3-cus- 
pidata. Capsula 3-locularis. Embryo excentricus. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Axutium Cowani ; scapo nudo semitereti, foliis lineari-lance- 
olatis longe attenuatis flaccidis, spatha monophylla, 
umbella multiflora, sepalis ovatis obtusis (albis), fila- 
mentis subulatis uniformibus. 
Auuium Cowani. Lindl. Bot. Reg.t.'758. Hort. Soc. Trans. 
v. 6. p. 98. Spreng. Syst. Veget..v.2. p. 36. Roem. 
et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1109. 
A native of elevated situations in Peru, according to 
Professor Linptey, whence bulbs were sent to the Horticul- 
tural Society of London by James Cowan, Esq. To that 
valuable Society, as well as to Joun Mac Lean, Esq. of 
Lima, we owe the possession of the plant in the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, where it flowered in the stove in Septem- 
ber, 1835. 
Descr. The bulb I have not seen. Leaves all radical, 
linear-lanceolate, flaccid, attenuated into a very long point, 
keeled, in our plant much longer than the scape, the 
young ones obscurely ciliated. Scape a foot or a foot and 
a half high, semiterete, naked, bearing an wmbel of many 
flowers. Spatha of a single, whitish membranous, pointed 
leaf. Pedicels two inches or more long. Sepals white, 
ovate, obtuse, concave, spreading. Filaments subulate, 
equal: Anthers oblong, green. Germen globose, three- 
lobed, lobes with a deep furrow. Style reaching about the 
length of the stamens. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
