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with a pungent reddish-brown horn at the tip, the margins whitisli, 

 serruliate. Elovvers in dense rhomboid panicles 1-2 ft. long, \vi^h 

 ascending branches. Perianth white, 1^-2 in. long. Grah. Cat. p. 22! ; 

 Woodr. in Jonrn. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 523 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1700. 



Cordyline terminalis, Kunth, Enum. v. 5 (1850) p. 25. A native of 

 the South Sea Islands, largely cultivated in tropical countries. It is an 

 erect glabrous shrub 8-10 ft. high, with distichous green or purplish, 

 oblong- lanceolate acuminate leaves, narrowed at the base, 1-3 ft. by 

 2-5 in., and subsessile white flowers in branched panicles. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 6, p. 331 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 523, & Gard. 

 in Ind. ed. 5, p. 516; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1072. 



The so-called Dracasnas of Indian gardens are mostly forms or varieties 

 of this plant. 



Vae. ferrea, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 14 (1874) p. 540. Leaves 

 narrower, more oblanceolate, dull purple or variegated, 2-2| in. broad; 

 flowers usually smaller, tinged with purple. Dracmia ferrea (sp.), Linn. 

 Syst. ed. 12 (1767) p. 246 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2053 ; Grah. Cat. p. 221 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 93. Common in gardens, introduced from China 

 {Graliam). 



Allium ascaJonicum, Linn. Amoen. Acad. v. 4 (1759) p. 454. Leaves 

 fistular, basal only; heads dense, with flowers ouly. The Shallot, culti- 

 vated, n. B. I. V. 6, p. 337 ; Grah. Cat. p. 220 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 523 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1075 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 168. 



Allium Cepa, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 300. Leaves fistular, sub- 

 distichous ; heads dense, with flowers and bulbils. The Onion, much 

 cultivated as a cold season crop throughout the Deccan and Gujarat. 

 The Onions of Bombay are well known and celebrated throughout India. 

 El. B. I. V. 6, p. 337 ; Grah. Cat. p. 220 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 92 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 523 ; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1075 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 169.— Vern. Pidz. 



Allium amjoelopi'asum, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 294. Leaves flat; 

 heads dense, bearing flowers only ; bulb long cylindric, simple. The 

 Leek, cultivated. El. B. I. v. 6, p. 337 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1899) p. 523 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1075. Allium Porrurn, Linn. 

 Sp. PI. (1753) p. 295 J Eoxb. El. Ind. v. 2 (1832) p. 141 ; Grah. Cat. 

 p. 221 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 92 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 171 

 (Porum). — VERif. Khordt. 



Alliiim sativum, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 296. Leaves flat ; heads lax, 

 bearing both flowers and bulbils; bulb short, compressed. Garlic, 

 widely cultivated in irrigated lands of the Deccan and S. M. Country. 

 El. B. I. V. 6, p. 337 : Grah. Cat. p. 220 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 92 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 523 ; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1075; Watt, Diet. Econ, Prod. v. ], p. 172. — Veev. Lasayi. 



Lilium neilgherrense, Wight, Icon. v. 6 (1853) p. 20, tt. 2031-32. A 

 native of the Nilghiri and Puluey Hills, growing about 3 ft. high. 

 Leaves lanceolate, shining, 5 by | in., 3-5-nerved. Elowers white, 



