201 EXGLISU LOTAXT. 



•which the centre one bears the anther. Spathe wth a rather short 

 entire beak. 



SPECIES I.-ALLI urn AMPELOPRASUM. Lhm. 

 Plates MDXXX. iroXXXI. 

 Bulb at the time of flowering consisting of 2 (rarely of 3 or 4) 

 large slightly unequal wliite oifsets (one on each side of the flowering 

 stem) within the coats, and commonly producing a number of whitish 

 hemispherical acuminated shortly-stalked bulbules about the size of peas 

 at the base. Leaves not fistulose, all sheathing the scape from its base 

 to about its middle, very broadly linear, folded, glaucous, scabi'ous on the 

 edges and midrib, the apex hooded and the sides pressed flat together 

 when young. Scape cylindrical. Spathe 1-valved, ovate, subglobose, 

 scarious, abruptly acuminated into a subherbaceous compressed beak 

 about as long as the rest of the spathe. Flowers in a dense globular 

 umbel, mth or without head-bulbules. Perianth leaves connivent, 

 gibbous, Anth a scabrous keel on the back of the 3 exterior. Stamens 

 included, the 3 mterior fllaments 3-cuspidate, the antheriferous cusp 

 about as long as the undivided part, and the lateral cusps considerably 

 longei". Capsule ovate-subglobose, indistinctly trigonous. Seeds 2 in 

 each cell. Head-bulbules absent, or greenish and subglobular, usually 

 distorted and angularly compressed at the base by mutual pressure. 



Var. a, genuinum. 

 Plate MDXXX. 

 nek%. Ic. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXXXTX. Fig. 1072. 

 A. Ampeloprasum, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1G57. Bah. Man. Brit. Hot. ed. yi. 

 p. 344 (ex parte). 



Head-bulbules none. Flowers very numerous, disposed in a compact 

 globe, whitish, tiuged with pale pui-plish-rose, and with a green midrib. 



Var. /3, hulbiferum. 

 A. Ampeloprasum, Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 344 (ex parte). 



Head-bulbules few or several, rarely as large as peas. Flowers very 

 numerous, disposed in a compact globe, whitish, tinged with pale 

 purplish-rose, and with a green midrib. 



Var. 7, Bahingtonii. 



Plate MDXXXI. 



A. Bahingtonii, Borrcr, in Engl. Bot. Suppl. No. 2906. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. 



p. 344. 

 A. Halleri, Bal. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. i. p. 305 (non G. Don'). 



