Plants of the Punjab. 441 
Herbs, UNBRANCHED, WITH Opposite EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Allium 
atropurpureum, 
LILIACER. 
F. B. I. vi. 344. 
Himalaya, 
8-10,000 ft. 
Kashmir, 
(Falconer). 
Dipeadi montanum, 
LILIACE A. 
PB. E yi.-346. 
The Plains, Delhi 
(Vicary). 
Dipeadi serotinum, 
LILIACEX. 
Pe Bes vit 346; 
The Salt Range. 
Tilla. 
Dipeadi hydsuricum, 
LILIACER. 
BOB yi. 847. 
The Plains, 
Ludhiana 
(Edgeworth). 
Simla below 
5,000 ft. 
(Collett). 
Urginea indica, 
Indian Squill, 
Kanda, phaphor. 
LILIACES. 
P. Bilao 7. 
Himalaya, 
below 5,000 ft. 
Simla, Subathu 
(Collett). 
The Salt Range. 
PETALS NONE. 
medium size, bulb nearly ovoid, not on a rootstock ; 
leaves 2-4, length 12-24 by ;4-§ in., narrowly linear-oblong 
or lanceolate, shorter than the tall erect cylindrical hollow 
main flower stalk ; leaves rose-purple, stellate, heads 2-24 
in, diam., minor flower stalks 3-1 in., calyx lobes linear- 
oblong, stamens about equal in length to the calyx lobes ; 
capsules round. 
smnall, bulb small ; leaves 4-6 in., rather fleshy, thread- 
like, deeply grooved above ; flowers ? in., white or greenish, 
in a 6-12-flowered raceme on a round main flower stalk 
6-9 in., minor flower stalks 4-2 in., bracts lanceolate, 
long-pointed, about equal to the minor flower stalks, 
calyx lobes 6, in 2 series, forming a tubular bell-shaped 
flower, strap-shaped, glandular at the tips, stamens 6, in- 
cluded ; capsule $ in. diam., short, broad, many-seeded. 
seeds 4 in., oblong with rounded ends, flat. 
like the last species, but leaves 6-18 in., flowers brown, 
smaller, bracts equal to or longer than the minor flower 
stalks, capsule sessile, leaves usually longer. 
like the last. species, but leaves much shorter, 4-6 in., 
bracts much shorter than the minor flower stalks, flowers 
with green tube and pale pink lobes. 
bulb more than } in., bitter ; leaves radical 6-18 by 
3-1 in., linear, nearly in 2 rows; flowers appearing be- 
fore the leaves, $ in. long, white with green lines, drooping 
or spreading, bell-shaped, in a terminal raceme, 6-12 in. 
long, on a main stalk 12-18 in., lesser stalks of raceme 1-1} 
in. long, slender, sepals 6, white with 3 green ribs in the 
centre, tip rounded, petals none, stamens 6, shorter than 
the sepals; capsule 3-? in. long, oblong, 3-valved, seeds 
many, flat, black. ‘The bulb is much used in Indian 
medicine and also as a substitute for European squill. 
