Allium.'] OLVI. LILIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 345 



Enum. iv. 448; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 757; Beichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. x. t. 505. 

 A. robustum, Karel. Kiril. Enum. PI. Alt. n. 855 ; Kunth I. c. 446 ; 

 Ledeb. M. Ress. iv. 187 ; Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 289. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, Falconer, to Kishtwar, alt. 8-10,000 ft., 

 Thomson. DISTBIB. Westwards to Hungary, Turkestan, Siberia. 



Bulb subglobosely ovoid, scales entire. Leaves 2-4, margins smooth, 1-2 ft. 

 by 1-2 in., sheaths sometimes hirtellous. Scape 2-2^ ft., striate. Head usually 

 hemispheric, 2-2 in. diam., spatbes 2-4, apiculate ; pedicels -1 in., elongate in 

 fruit. Sepals linear-oblong, subacute, pale or dark-purple, filaments inserted at 

 their bases connate at the base, inner triangular below the middle, outer at the base 

 only. Ovary subglobose or depressed; style short; stigma simple. Capsule 

 globose. Aifghan specimens have leaves 2 in. broad. 



26. A. loratum, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 290 ; leaves 3-5 linear- 

 lanceolate flat flaccid ciliolate longer than the slender terete scape, head 

 many and dense-fld., pedicels short but longer than the campanulate white 

 perianth, filaments equalling the lanceolate acute sepals inner subulate 

 outer linear with subulate tips. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA and TIBET; Kishtwar and Banahal, alt. 10-14,000 ft, 

 Thomson. 



Bulb small, ovoid, outer scales membranous, grey. Leaves 2-5, 6-9 by -1 in., 

 narrowed from above the base. Scape 3-6 in. Head 30-50-fld. ; spathes 2, 

 navicular, acute ; pedicels -5 in., tip thickened. Sepals- -IQ-% in. ; midrib brown j 

 filaments inserted on their bases. Ovary globosely triquetrous; style very short. 

 Baker says that this, judging from the very imperfect specimens, closely re- 

 sembles A. narcissifolium, Linn., the handsomest of European species. Near A. 

 atropurpureum, but the leaves are broader, and the head globose, with much shorter 

 pedicels and paler flowers. 



27. A. macranthum. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 293 ; leaves many 

 linear gradually acuminate keeled, scapes many grooved and ribbed, head 

 lax-fld., pedicels much longer than the large campanulate dark purple 

 flowers, filaments filiform equalling the oblong obtuse sepals. Regel 

 All. Monogr. 182 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6789. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; in the inner ranges alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H. ; Elwes. 



Bulb narrow, coats membranous. Leaves 6-9, 18 by -f in. Scape robust, 

 1-2 ft., pedicels 1-2 in., stout. Sepals $-% in.; filaments inserted on their bases, 

 dilated at the very base ; anthers large. Ovary deeply 3-lobed, stigma capitellate. 

 A very beautiful species, resembling A. narcissiflorum y Vill. Regel cites it in Sect. 

 RMziridium, but it is not known to have a rootstock. 



18. DIPCADI, Medic. 



Tuberous scapigerous herbs. Flowers racemed. Perianth cylindric, 

 of 6 erect segments, the outer recurved from about the middle, the inner 

 at the tips only. Stamens included. Capsule short, broad, tridymous, 

 loculicidal, many-seeded. Seeds flat ; testa black, membranous. Species 

 about 20, S. European, W. Asiatic and African. 



The Indian species want a thorough re-examination, with .far better materials 

 than I have access to. 



* Ovary atipitate. 



