356 CLVI. LILIAGE^R. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gagea. 



as the perianth, seeds compressed not angled or winged. Or. amblyopetala, 

 var. bulbifera, Boiss. -, Eegel Fl. Turkest. 112, t. 17 (non Boiss.). Gr. 

 stipitata, Merkl. in Bunge Bel. Haenk. 512. Bulbillaria gageoides, Zucc. 

 in Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Bay. iii. 230, t. 2, f. 1. Lloydia kunawarensis, 

 Eoyle III. 388, t. 93, f . 3. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kunawur to 'Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft., Royle, &c. 

 DISTRIB. Westwards to Persia, Turkestan. 



Bulb solitary in the coats. Radical leaf 4-6 by |- in. Stem 4-6 in., glabrous, 

 very slender. Cymes 1-2 in., often with bulbils in the axils of the short very 

 slender pedicels. Sepals linear, obtuse ; filaments nearly as long, anthers sub- 

 didymous. Capsule nearly as long as the perianth. Seeds compressed, not angled 

 or winged. 



3. Cr. reticulata, Schultes f. Syst. vii. 542 ; leaves all very long 

 filiform .recurved cauline numerous subverticillate, flowers many sub- 

 umbellate, sepals |-| in. long acute or finely acuminate, capsule, as long 

 as the perianth, seeds flat angular. Boiss. FL. Orient, v. 208 ; Reichb. Fl. 

 Germ. x. t. 481; Regel Fl. Turkest. 110, t. 19, f. 1-4; Expl. Alger. 

 t. 45 bis, f. 1. Gr. taurica, Stev. Taur. 335 (ex Boiss.) Gr. commutata, 

 sarmentosa, and triphylla, C. Koch in Linnsea, xxii. 227-230. Gr. peduncu- 

 lata, Wall. Cat. 5066. 



The PAN JAB PLAINS ; ascending the Western Himalaya, Salt Range, &c., to 

 5500 ft. DISTRIB. Westwards to Greece and N. Africa, Turkestan. 



Bulb densely fibrilliferous. Stem 2-3 in., stout or slender. Leaves 4-8 in., 

 cauline usually very many, and long, rarely few and short. Flowers numerous, 

 very variable in size, green with a white border. Anthers linear-oblong. 



26. COX.CHXCU1K, Linn. 



Gorm coated. Leaves radical, linear or lanceolate. Scape very short, 

 sessile amongst the leaf-sheaths, 1-3-fld. Flowers large, erect. Perianth 

 funnel-shaped; tube very long and slender; lobes 6, subequal, suberect. 

 Stamens 6, inserted in the bases of the segments, included ; anthers dorsi- 

 fixed, versatile, introrse. Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; styles 3, long, filiform ; 

 cells many-ovuled. Capsule chartaceous, septicidal. Seeds subglobose ; testa 

 appressed brown. Species about 30, Europe, N. Africa and temp. Asia. 



C. luteum * Baker in Gard. Ghron. (1874) 33 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xvii. 434; leaves appearing with the flowers linear-oblong or oblanceo- 

 late obtuse, perianth golden yellow, tube 3-4 in., segments oblong or 

 oblanceolate obtuse many-nerved. Bot. Mag. t. 6153. MelanthaceaB, Griff. 

 Notul iii. 241 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 278, f. 2. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 4-7000 ft., Thomson, &c., 

 Chamba, Ellis, &c. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Turkestan. 



Corm gibbously ovoid, coats dark brown. Leaves few, lorate, short at the 

 flowering time, at fruiting 6-12 by ^~ in., tip rounded. Flowers 1-2 (in spring), 

 1-lij in. diam. when expanded. Stamens shorter than the perianth ; filaments very 

 much shorter than the long yellow anthers. Style filiform, much longer than the 

 perianth. Capsule 1-H in- > valves with long recurved beaks. 



27. TOERENDERA, Bamond. 



Habit and characters of Colchicum, but with the perianth-segments free 

 to their base, their long slenier claws forming a tube, and the anthers 



