392 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [ Asphodelee. 
seed, closely resembles A. clavatus of Dr. Roxburgh, common in fields of cultivation 
in the N.W. provinces, and, as far southwards, at least, as Allahabad, flowering in 
February. There is in the Himalayas a magnificent species, A. pyramidalis, nob., 
(allied to A. albus), which I obtained from Pungee, in Kunawur. My friend, Dr. 
Falconer, writes me, that he has met with a species of Ornithogalum,? which the 
Cashmerians call Prusterien, with a scape seven feet high. 
In the Peninsula there are some species which have been transferred to various 
genera, as Ornithogalum and Anthericum, but which, by Dr. Wallich, are placed in 
Phalangium, as P. alatum, Cat. No. 5056, which extends into Lower Assam and up to 
Monghir; and P. falcatum, Cat. No. 5057, which seems to be confined to the Penin- 
sula : with these may be mentioned a doubtful species of Chlorophytum, C. Heyneanum, 
Cat. No. 5060, found in the same part of India. Chlorophytum is a genus found in the 
south of Africa and in New Holland, to which Dr.Wallich has referred the foregoing 
plant, as well as another, which he has. — G. undulatum, Cat. No. 5059, which is 
found in Silhet and Nepal. All : ) ) 
: — who tas a undertaken. to 
ahida wae widely-diffused, being — wii haope and the north of Africa, 
in the Syrian Region, in Siberia, China, , and North America, and in the south at the 
ope, and in Chili. The ordinary species are cultivated in the plains 
1 Cepa, the onion; A. sativum, garlic; A. Porrum, the leek; 
_ A. ascalonicum, the shallot ; together with Dr. Roxburgh’s A. tuberosum, which he 
ose with A. schenoprasum, chives: some also in the mountains, as onions, 
which are particularly fine in Kunawur. In the Himalayas several new species have 
— ae, as: si erent aaa: a ar’ tyne or t nearly-allied: species, A. lilacinum, 
7 e lon siecle: as Urukta and Kedar- 
bélideasis The first, atbeahietins ata natives, ¥ — also ae from: mee Broang 
Pass, as well as from Peer Punjal. ‘Anew s species, A. 3 1, NO’ +» has been 
obtained from Nako, in Kunawur. ahaa i SH CORRE ae ge ae aR He. 
Of the tribe Asparagee ; Dianella, uinpewoie’ in me eal “Asia = New Holland, 
has tthe species, D, nemorosa, common in gardens in Southern India ; but Dr. Wallich 
also enumerates “some on _— 5169, =e —_" as obtaine 
siete the ie i Patemial into Chittagong and Silhet; where aan: Dew spice 
a ei, and D. atropurpurea of Dr. Roxburgh ; and D. ensifolia of Dr.Wallich. 
- Heyneana, Wall. Cat. No. 5151, may have been introduced into the Peninsula, as 
0 loc ccality i is end in the Catalogue, nor in Dr. Rottler’s: Herbarium, where there 
8 apparently of this species. ~ Dracaena Draco seems to be indigenous only 
in Socetil and the Canary islands ; perhaps, also on the west coast of Africa. 
Asparagus, 
