Tas. 8858. 
ALLIUM sIKKIMENSE. 
Sikkim. 
Liuiaceaz. Tribe ALLIEAR. 3 
Auuium, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 802. 
Allium sikkimense, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 292; Regel, Monogr. 
Allior. p. 146; species A. kanswensi, Regel, affinis, staminibus alternis 
‘inappendiculatis differt. 
Herba; bulbi caespitosi, perpendiculares, cylindrici, usque ad 5 ecm. longi, 
tunicis exterioribus demum fibrosis. Folia 2-3, superposita, linearia, 
concava, ad 23 cm. longa, 4 mm. lata, marginibus minute scabris exceptis 
glabra. “Pedwneulus quam folia longior vel brevior ; spatha cymbiformis, 
rostrata, 2 cm. longa, 1 cm. lata (explanata), membranacea, glabra ; 
umbella pauci- vel usque ad 20-flora; pedicelli 2-4 mm. longi, inferiores 
saepe nutantes. Perianthiwm ovoideo-campanulatum, coeruleo-purpureum ; 
segmenta ovata, leviter cucullata, exteriora 6 mm. longa, interiora paullo 
longiora. Stamina quam perianthii segmenta paullo breviora ; filamenta 
exteriora simpliciter subulata, interiora utrinque quadratim dentata. 
Ovarium 3-lobum, basi 8-foraminatum; stylus subulatus, ovario aequi- 
longus.—C. H. WRricuHT. 
Allium sikkimense belongs to the section Rhiziridiwm in 
which the bulb, instead of becoming globose or ovoid, 
remains cylindric, and often (as in the present instance) 
has its outer coat breaking up with age into parallel 
strands of tough fibres. Regel subdivides this section 
into those species which have a creeping ‘ rhizome” 
and those in which the so-called ‘‘rhizome”’ is perpen- 
dicular, but inadvertently places the present species, 
which he had not seen, in the former group; its bulbs, 
except the slightly curved ones at the outside of a 
clump, are cylindric and erect. A native of alpine 
Sikkim, A. sikkimense was discovered in August, 1848, 
by Sir J. D. Hooker at Lachen between 10,000 and 
11,000 feet, and at Tungu at 14,000 feet, and was again 
collected in 1911 by Ribu and Rhomoo at Cholamoo, at 
an altitude of 16,000 feet. It flowered with Mr. H. J. 
Elwes at Colesborne, Cheltenham, in March, 1877, and 
again at the same place in June, 1919; in the latter case 
Juty-SEPpTEMBER, 1920. 
