Allium.] CLVI. LILIACEJ3. (J. D. Hooker.) 343 



lanceolate. Ovary broadly obcordate, style exsevted. Capsule % in. diam. cuneately 

 obcordate. 



Var. angustifolia ; leaves -! in. broad, flowers pale pink. Interior of Sikkim, 

 alt. 10-12,000 ft. West Nepal, Duthie. 



19. A. Schrenki, Regel All. Monoyr. 172 ; leaves linear flat shorter 

 than the terete striate scape, head globose, pedicels shorter than the 

 purplish campanulate perianth, filaments simple shortly exserted. 



HIMALAYA Mxs., Hort. Calcutt. (Regel.). DISTRIB. Siberia. 



Bulbs subcylindric, inserted on a stout cylindric rootstock ; outer scales densely 

 fibrous, reticulate, brown. Leaves 3-4 below the middle of the scape, T V~i m - broad. 

 Scape 8-16 in., striate and grooved towards the top, strict or flexuous. Head many- 

 fld. ; spathes scarious, white, shorter than the head; flowering pedicels T \j in., 

 shorter than the perianth, at length in. Filaments unequal, outer linear-subulate, 

 inner subulate from a lanceolate base. Ovary ovoid, 3-gonous ; style at length very 

 long, stigma capitate. I have seen no Himalayan specimen. Regel says it differs from, 

 the widely diffused A. strictum, Sohrad. in the capitate stigma. 



** Stamens shorter than the perianth. 



20. A. odor urn, Linn. Mant. 62 ; leaves many basal very narrowly 

 linear flattish keeled shorter than the terete slender scape, head many or 

 few-fld., pedicels much or rather longer than the small white campanulate 

 perianth, filaments shorter than and adnate below to the obovate-oblong 

 mucronate or subacute sepals triangular-lanceolate, style included. Kunth 

 Ennm. iv. 185; JKegel All. Monogr. 175; (excl. Syn. tuberosum, &c.) Baker 

 in Journ. Bot. 1874, 291; Redoute Lil. t. 98; Sot. Mag. t. 1142. A. 

 tataricum, Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2, ii. 233. 



WESTERN TIBET; alt. 10-14,000 ft., Thomson. WESTERN NEPAL, alt. 13,000 ft., 

 Duthie. DISTRIB. N. Asia, Japan. 



Bulb 1-4 in. clustered on an oblique jointed rootstock, subcylindric or conic ; 

 scales finely reticulate, white brown or blackish. Leaves many, 6-24 by T V~3 m -> 

 subacute. Scape terete or angled at the tip. Head 1-1 1 i n - diam. ; spathes short, 

 mucrcnate ; pedicels short, filiform, angled, flowering % in., fruiting 1 in. Sepals 

 3 in., with usually a strong nerve. Filaments subequal, outer dilated at the base, 

 inner ovate with a subulate tip. Ovary subglobose, trigonous. Capsule subglobose. 



21. A. tuberosum, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 24 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 141 ; leaves 

 4-5 basal erect narrow-linear flat tall compressed or trigonous above, 

 head lax-fld. pedicels much longer than the small white or pink 

 stellate flowers, sepals oblong-lanceolate, filaments simple linear in- 

 cluded connate below and perigynous, style short. Baker in Journ. 

 Sot. 1874, 292 ; Kunth Enum. iv. 454 ; Wall. Cat. 5068. A. Koxburghii, 

 G. Don. Monogr. All. 91 ; Kunth 1. c. 454. A. uliginosum, G. Don. I. c. 

 60 ; Kunth I. c. 422. A. senescens, M.iq. Ann. Mus. Sot. Lug d. Sat. iii. 154. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, ILoyle. KHASIA MTS., ait. 5-6000 ft. (apparently wild). 

 Griffith, &c. Cultivated in BENGAL, Roxburgh. DISTRIB. China, Siam, Japan. 



Bulbs elongate, c^vliudric, with white fleshy root-fibres : scales grey, fibrous. 

 Leaves 6-12 by T V- in. ; sometimes concave and twisted. Scape 1-li ft. Head 

 20-10-fld., hemispheric, 1-1 in. diam., spathes 1-2 small ; pedicels ascending, -! 

 in. Sepals - in. ; acute or obtuse, at length reflexed, filaments inserted on the 

 bases of the sepals, gradually dilated from below the middle to the base, outer 

 shorter, broader. Ovary globosely obovoid, deeply 3-lobed ; stigma obscurely 

 3-toothed ; cells 3-ovuled. Capsule obcordate. Regel cites this as a synonym of 

 4. odorum, and it is possible that it maybe the cultivated form of that plant. 

 Wallich's specimens are from the Mission Garden, Tranquebar. 



