290 LiliacecB. \AUtum. 



dense-fld. ; bracts longer than the fl., linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 lower I in. long ; pedicels \-\ in., erect, jointed near the top ; 

 perianth about \ in. broad, segm. narrowly lanceolate, tips 

 cucullate, apiculate ; anth. shorter than the fil. ; cells of ov. 

 about 15-ovuled ; capsule \-\ in. long, erect, broadly oblong, 

 shortly pedicelled, cells 8-io-seeded ; seeds black, shining, 

 minutely tubercled. 



Low country; rather rare. Kurunegala and Matale (Gardner); Central 

 Prov.; common (Thvvaites). Fl. green. 

 Also in Peninsular India. 



2. C. lazum, Br. Prod. 277 (1810). 



C. parvijlorum, Dalz., Thw. Enum. 339. C. laxijlorum^ Baker in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 328. C. P. 2292. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 336. Wight, Ic. t. 2039 {Phalanguim (?) parvifloriwt). 



Root-fibres slender or tuberous; 1. 4-6 by \-\ in., sub- 

 distichous, usually spreading and strongly recurved, linear- or 

 narrowl}' lanceolate, acuminate, flat or sides conduplicate, 

 rather rigid, costate, green above, subglabrous beneath ; ped. 

 with the infl. as long as the 1. or shorter, slender, flexuous, 

 with scattered lanceolate bracts; fl. in distant bracteate 

 fascicles an inch or more. apart, appearing successively in each 

 fascicle, bracts scarious, lanceolate, as long as the short dc- 

 curved pedicels, which elongate in fr. ; perianth \-\ in. broad, 

 segm. ovate-oblong, acute; anth. green, didymous, much 

 shorter than the fil.; capsule broadly obcordate, \ in. diam., 

 cells 1-4-seeded; seeds globose, rough. 



Moist low country; rather common. Fl. Dec, July, Src; greenish- 

 white. 



Also in S. India, Borneo, China, Trop. Africa, Australia. 



7. AXiZ.ZUBI, L. 



Foetid (when bruised) scapigcrous herbs, with tunicate bulbs; 



1. narrow; fl. umbelled, all at first enclosed in 2 membranous 



spathes; perianth rotate or campanulate, 6-partite, segm. 



persistent ; stam. 6, inserted on the bases of the per.-segm., 



anth. slits introrse; ov. globose, 3-celled, cells one-ovuled, 



style filiform, stigma minute, ovules anatropous; capsule small, 



surrounded by the persistent perianth, loculicidal or bursting 



irregularly, one-seeded ; seed globose or flattened, testa 



membranous, black, embryo cylindric in fleshy endosperm. — 



Sp. about 250; 27 in Fl. B. Ind. 



The Ceylon Allium differs from the character of the genus in the 

 usually indehiscent fr., with one large almost globose seed. — J. U. H. 



