Allium.'] CLVI. LiLiACEJs. (J. D. Hooker.) 339 



** Leaves filiform. 



5. A. rubellum, M. Biel. Fl. Taur. Cauc. i. 264 ; leaves ^-terete or 

 flattish, head subglobose, pedicels much longer than the very small cam- 

 panulate rosy flowers, sepals oblong- or elliptic-oblong acuminate, filaments 

 included cohering at the very base all simple linear-lanceolate from a 

 broad cuneate base inner broadest. Regel All. Monogr. 106; Fl. Tur- 

 Jcest. t. 10, f. 9 ; G. Don Monogr. All. 36 ; Kunth Enum. iv. 399 ; Boiss. FL 

 Orient, v. 253; Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 290. A. rubellum and grandi- 

 florum, Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 171. A. leptophyllum, Wall. Cat. 5073 A; 

 Kunth. 1. c. 456. A. Jacquemontii, Kunth I. c. 399. A. longisepalum, 

 Bert, in Nov. Comm. Acad. Bonon. v. 429. A. tenue, G. Don Monogr. All. 

 34 ; Koch in Linnsea, xxii. 238. 



The PANJAB and WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 1500-8000 ft.; from Kashmir to 

 Kumaon. DISTRIB. Westwards to the Ural and Caucasus, and in Siberia. 



Bulb small, ovoid-oblong, outer coats striate, inner membranous. Leaves 4-6, 

 longer than the scapes, margins erose ; sheaths elongate. Head f-1 in. diam., 

 spathe entire or 2-4-fid at length circumciss. Sepals - 1 in., twice as long as the 

 stamens, which are subbasal on the sepals. Style short. I have followed Boissier in 

 the limitation of this species and its varieties. Regel refers Don's tenue to A. Pallasi, 

 Bunge,, which is described as having a long style; he retains as a species Boissier's 

 A. Grijfithianum, which the latter author has reduced to a variety of rubellum. 



VAR. 3. grandiflora, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 253 ; pedicels longer, flowers larger, 

 sepals A- in. long subacute, filaments much shorter and broader. A. Griffithianum, 

 Solas. Diagn. Ser. 2, iv. 117 ; Regel All. Monogr. 108 ; Baker 1. c. 290. A. vul- 

 canicum. Boiss. in Plant. Kotsch. Pers. Bot. No. 49. Kashmir, alt. 5-7000 ft. 

 Westward to Persia. 



VAR. 7. parviflora, Ledeb. FL Ross. iv. 171 ; flowers smaller, sepals i in. long. 

 A. syntamanthum, C. Koch in Linncea, 22, 239; Regel All. Monogr. 110. 

 Western Himalaya. Westward to S. Russia. 



6. A. lilacinum, Boyle mss. ; leaves terete or channelled longer or 

 shorter than the scape, head hemispheric, pedicels twice as long as or 

 longer than the campanulate small pale red flowers, sepals ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate acute or obtuse, filaments exserted inner 2-toothed at the very 

 base. Regel All. Monogr. 89. A. rubens, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 293 

 (not of Schrad.). 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 6-7000 ft. ; from Garwhal westwards. 



Bulb ovoid ; coats scarious, red-brown. Leaves 2-3. Scape 810 in., fistular. 

 Head 1-1 in. diam. ; spathes 2, acuminate; pedicels t~i in Sepals % in. long, 

 with the filaments inserted near their bases ; anthers large. 



Sect. II. BHIZIBIDIUM. Bulbs solitary or clustered upon an erect or 

 creeping rootstock. Leaves flat. 



A. Scales of bulb membranous, not of reticulated fibres. 

 * Stamens longer than the perianth. 



7. A. blandum, Wall. PI As. Ear. iii. 38, t. 260; tall, stout, leaves 

 flat broadly linear obtuse shorter than the tall scape, head globose very 

 dense-fld., pedicels shorter than the campanulate pale pink flowers, sepals 

 oblong obtuse, filaments simple subulate much exserted. Kunth Swum. 

 iv. 396; Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 295. A. obtusifolium, Klotzsch ft 

 G-arcke, Bot. Seise Pr. Wald. 51, t. 95. 



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