Tulbaghia.] LILIACEE (Baker). : 407 
10. T. violacea (Harv. in Bot. Mag.,t. 3555); basal rudimentary 
leaves brown, membranous ; leaves 4~6, linear, flaccid, 8-12 in. long, 
37+ in, broad ; peduncle 1-2 ft. long ; umbel 10~20-flowered 3 spathe- 
valves ovate-lanceolate, }- in. long, tinged with lilac ; pedicels 
a~13 in. long ; perianth bright lilac, 2 in. long; segments oblong- 
lanceolate, half as Jong as the cylindrical tube; coronal-lobes yz-} in. 
long, truncate or emarginate; upper stamens not reaching to the 
throat of the perianth-tube. Kunth, Enum. iv. 485; Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xi. 372. 
Var. 8, minor (Baker, loc. cit.) ; peduncle 4-5 in. long; umbel 3-6-flowered ; 
pedicels very short; perianth-segments lanceolate, more than half as long us the 
tube. . 
Var. ‘y, obtusa (Baker, loc. cit.) ; segments of the perianth-limb oblong, obtuse, 
$+} in, broad, T. cepacea var. robustior, Kunth, Enum. iv. 484. 
Coast Recion: Port Elizabeth, E.S.0.4, Herb., 262! Albany Div.; Bothas 
Hill, MacOwan, 914! King Williamstown Div.; Keiskamma Hoek, Cooper, 544! 
CENTRAL Ruecion: Albert Div.; by the Orange River, Burke! Vur. y, 
Somerset Div. ; between the Zuurberg and Klein Bruntjes Hoogte, 2000-2500 ft., 
Drége! ; : 
EastERN Reoeion: Kaffrarian Mountains, Mrs. Barber, 41! 
XXII. ALLIUM, Linn. 
Perianth polyphyllous, marcescent ; segments subequal, patent or 
permanently connivent. Stamens 6, attached to the base of the 
perianth-segments ; stamens filiform or flattened, the three inner 
tricuspidate in the section Porum; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, 
dehiscing introrsely. Ovary sessile, or shortly stipitate; ovules 
usually 2 in a cell; style filiform, usually inserted into a central 
hollow of the ovary; stigma capitate or obscurely tricuspidate. 
Capsule globose, small, membranous, dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds 
angled ; testa black, membranous ; albumen fleshy. 
Rootstock a tunicated bulb or short rhizome ; Jeaves all radical, but often. 
sheathing the base of the peduncle for some distance ; flowers umbellate ; spathe- 
valves usually two, membranous; odour alliaceous. 
DistRrs. Species 250-300, concentrated in the North temperate zone of both 
hemispheres. 
1. A. dregeanum (Kunth, Euum. iv. 382); bulb ovoid, under an 
inch in diameter ; tunics pale, membranous ; peduncle terete, 13-2 ft. 
long; leaves 3-5, linear, 8-12 in. long, } in. broad, with long 
basal sheaths ; umbel globose, many-flowered, usually but not always 
with a number of large brown ovoid bulbille; pedicels generally 
in. long, sometimes 1-2 in.; perianth permanently cam- 
about } . cam 
ulate, 2 in. long, white tinged with pink ; segments much imbri- 
oe ovate, oe "3-nerved on the keel; stamens shorter than the 
3 outer ovate in the lower half; 
segments, 3 inner tricuspidate, | 
ovary ovoid-trigonous ; ovules 2 in a cell; style shorter than the 
ovary. 
Coast Region; Malmesbury Div.; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 863! Rivers- 
