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interdum alveolato-impresso-punctatis ; caule erecto, tereti v. rarius sub- 

 angulato, laevi, foliis breviore v. longiore; foliis late linearibus v. li- 

 nearibus, attenuato-acutis, carinatis, margine laevibus v. rarius basin 

 versus piloso-ciliatis ; spatlia univalvi, 2 — 4 fida ; nmbella pauci-multi- 

 fiora, capsulifera, fastigiata, convexa; pedicellis subaequalibus, perigo- 

 nium sesqui-triplo superantibus, basinudis; sepalis albis, tenuissimis, 

 ellipticis v. elliptico-oblongis, acutis v. obtusiusculis, ad basin liberis, 

 stamina subaequantibus ; filamentis simplicibus ima basi tantum breviter 

 coalitis, e basi latiore attenuato-subulatis ; ovario depresso-globoso; stylo 

 filiformi stamina superante; stigmate indiviso nec incrassato. 



Caulis 10—50 c. m. altus. Folia 2 — 10 m. m. lata. Spatha 

 hyalino-scariosa, initio umbellam subaequans, demum pedicellis brevior, 

 univalvis v. 2 — 4 loba, lobis ovatis subaristato-acumiuatis. Pedicelli 

 1 — 2 c. m. longi. Sepala 5 — 7 m. m. longa. 



Ab A. subhirsuto staminibus stylisque subexsertis vix diversum. 



Habitat in Italia australi, in insulis canariensibus et in Africa bo- 

 reali. — 



A. suhvillosum Salzm. in Rcem. et Schult. syst. 1104 (1830). 



A. vernale Tineo in Guss. fl. sic. prodr. suppl. I. pag. 96. — 

 Bertol. fl. it. IV. 49. — Parl. fl. it. II. 529. 



A. suhhirsutnm Desf. fl. atl. pag. 286. — Redoute Lil. VI. 

 tab. 305. 



A. Glusiamim Bets. in Willd. spec. H. 79. 



A. alhmn Santi in Bove pl. exs. prope Oran lect. — Santi 

 viaggi. I. tab. 7. 



(3. canariense; caule gracili tenui, umbella pauciflora, sepalis el- 

 liptico-oblongis, foliis glabris 2 m. m. latis. 



lu insulis canariensibus prope St. Sebastiau leg. C. Maximowicz. 



250. A. pliilistaeum Boiss., bulborum aggregatorum tuuicis ex- 

 terioribus coriaceis, punctatis, cinerascentibus, interioribus membrana- 

 ceisalbidis; caule tereti, erecto, laevi, basi foliato, foliis longiore v. 

 subaequilongo ; foliis anguste linearibus, canaliculato-plicatis, superne 

 subulato-attenuatis. margine remote ciliolatis, caeterum glabris; umbella 



