Plants of the Punjab. 437 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH Opposite EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Asphodelus 
tenuifolius, 
Asphodel, 
Piazi, bokat. 
LILIACER. 
PEBe ly vi..882. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir, 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). . 
Asphodelus 
comosus, 
LILIACEA. 
t.B: Ling 882; 
Lahul. 
Eremurus 
himalaicus, 
LILIACE. 
LEN Sl ea SB Oe 
Himalaya, 
7-10,000 ft. 
Eremurus persicus, 
LILIACE. 
Be Bel. vi,ooc. 
The Salt Range, 
Sakesar 
(Aitchison). 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Allium asealonicum, 
Shallot, 
Gandan, gandhana. 
LILIACE. 
BLS. wiser 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
PETALS NONE. 
small, annual, root fibres slender or fleshy ; leaves 
6-12 by +); in., all radical, linear, slender, half rounded, 
hollow, long-pointed ; flowers 4 im. long, white, in brac- 
teate racemes ona branched main flower stalk, 6-24 in., 
calyx 6-lobed, lobes white with a central red brown streak, 
spreading, petals none, stamens 6, upper portion spindle- 
shaped, lower surrounding and covering the ovary, style 
straight, stigma 3-lobed ; capsule ¢ in. diam., round, wrinkl- 
ed, seeds 8, 38-angled. This is a weed of cultivation. The 
seed is used in Indian medicine as a diuretic. 
like the last species, but much larger, flowers 1-1} 
in. diam., white, with a green streak, leaves 14 in., broad, 
thick. 
like the last species, but very much larger, leaves 
12-36 by 1-3 in., main flower stalk 24-36 in., flowers 
1 in. diam., white, capsule 4 im. diam, triangular, the 
capsule has more seeds, seeds not winged. 
like the last species, but much smaller, flowers white 
with a brown central band in each segment, capsule 1 in. 
broad, seeds broadly 3-winged. 
small, annual, bulbs coated, strongly scented ; leaves 
basal, narrow, hollow ; flowers white, star-shaped, on very 
short minor stalks forming a head on one main flower stalk, 
enclosed at first in a spathe, calyx 6-lobed, petals none, 
stamens 6, inner stamens 2-toothed, style thread-like, 
stigma minute ; capsule small, 3-celled, 3-angled, seeds 
few, black, flattened. This plant 1s cultivated as a con 
diment, is not found wild. 
