Dianella.'] CLVI. LILIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 337 



or compressed; testa black, shining; albumen fleshy. Species 7 or 8; 

 tropical Asiatic, Mascarene, Australia and Polynesia. 



D. ensifolia, Redoute Lil. t. 1 ; stem leafy, sheaths acutely keeled, 

 filament greatly thickened at the very top. Kunth Enum. v. 50 ; Baker 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 576 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 16 ; Sot. Mag. t. 

 1404; Miquel FL Ind. Sat. iii. 560; D. odorata, Blume Enum. i. 13; 

 Kunth. l.o. 51 : D. nemorosa, Lamk. Encycl. ii.'276; Jacg. Sort. Schoenb. 

 i. 49, t. 94, Wall. Cat. 5169; Miquel 1. c.; Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 164. D. 

 javanica, Kuntli 1. c. 52 ; Miquel I. c. 561. D. sandvicensis, Hook. tSf Am. 

 Bot. Beech. Voy.97. Rhuacophila javanica, Blume I.e. 14. Antherium 

 Adenanthera, Forst. Prodr. ISTo. 149. Phalangium Adenanthera, Poir. 

 Encycl. v. 252. 



TEOPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards, alt. 2-5000 ft., the KHASIA 

 HILLS, MUNNIPOKE, and BURMA. CEYLON ascending to 4000 ft. DISTRIB. East- 

 wards to Australia and the Pacific, Mascarefie Islds. 



Stem 3-6 ft., rigid. Leaves lower 1-2 ft. by f-l in., linear-lanceolate, keel and 

 margins smooth or scabrid ; sheaths long. Panicle 1-2 ft., cuneiform, pedicels 

 short, rigid, slender ; bracts spathaceous ; flowers inodorous. Perianth white 

 greenish or bluish, segments -J in. ; 3 inner reflexed. Anthers linear, 2-porose. 

 Berry dark purple, or blue, \ in. diam., cells 1-3- or- more seeded. Seeds ovoid, 

 subacute. 



17. ALLIUM, Linn. 



Foetid scapigerous herbs ; bulbs coated. Leaves usually narrow, often 

 fistular. Flowers capitate or umbelled, all at first enclosed in 1-3 mem- 

 branous spathes, stellate or campanulate ; sepals 6, free or connate below. 

 Stamens hypog^nous or inserted on the perianth ; filaments free or connate 

 below, anthers oblong. Ovary 3-gonous, 3-celled : style filiform, stigma 

 minute, cells few-ovuled. Capsule small, loculicidal. Seeds few, com- 

 pressed, testa black. Species about 250, in all N. temp, regions. 



In the following account of the Indian Allia I have been much aided by Regel's 

 " Alliorum Monographia " and Baker's paper in the Journal of Botany, but I am far 

 from satisfied as to the limitation of the sections, and the disposal of the species in 

 them. Further, I expect that more complete Indian and Central Asiatic collections 

 may modify the results given below. The following species are extensively cultivated 

 in India : 



A. ASCALONICUM, Linn. -, Hoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 142. A. Sulvia, Ham. in Don 

 Prodr. 53. A. fragrans )8 nepalensis, Bot. Reg. t. 898. Nothoscordium ? Sulvia, 

 Kunth, Enum. iv. 402; leaves basal and scape stout fistular, head globose very many- 

 fld., pedicels very short, perianth white stellate, inner filaments 2 -toothed. The 

 Shallot. 



A. AMPELOPORASUM, Linn. A. Porrum, Linn. Roxb. 1. c. ii. 141 ; Wall. Cat. 

 5074 ; stem leafy, leaves linear flat keeled shorter than the tall terete scape, head 

 globose very many- and dense-fid., pedicels longer than the campanulate white 

 flowers, inner filaments 2-toothed. The Leek. 



A. CEPA, Linn. ; Roxb. I. c. 142; Wall. Cat. 5072. A. Cumaria, Herb. Ham.-, 

 leaves subdistichous fistular shorter than the inflated scape, head bearing flowers 

 and bulbils, pedicels shorter than the stellate flowers, sepals line % ar- oblong, filaments 

 exserted simple or the inner 2-toothed at the base. The Onion. 



A. SATIVUM, Linn. ; Roxb. I. c. 142 ; leaves flat, scape slender, spathes long- 

 beaked, heads bearing bulbils and flowers, sepals lanceolate acuminate, inner 

 filaments 2-toothed. The Garlic. 



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