Allium.) LILIACEE. 1075 
Seeds usually many in each cell, compressed ; testa black, mar- 
ginally winged ; embryo rather large; albumen flesh 
2224. Urcinea inpica Kunth; F. B. I. vi. 347. Scilla indica 
¥. 1. ij 147. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
A bulbous herb; flowers appearing before the leaves. 
Vernac. Kanda, kandé, jangli-piyaj, ban-piyaj. 
969. Allium Linn. 
Herbs with tunicate bulbs ; odour characteristic, fetid or pun- 
gent ; leaves radical, usually narrow, often fistular, sheath short or 
long, and enve oping the scape below. Line rather small, 
several or many in a terminal umbel, enclosed at first by 2, rarely 
3, membranous bracts, sometimes more or less connate, at the top 
of a simple, leafless scape; pedicels not articulate ; occasionally 
the flowers replaced by bulbils. oruath subealyeine, of 6 per- 
sistent segments, free or slightly connate below, subequal, cam- 
at Panulate or stellate. Stamens 6, inserted at or near the base of 
the perianth-lobes; filaments free, filiform, or somewhat dilated 
below, or sometimes connate at the base ; anthers oblong; dehis- 
cence introrse. Carpels 3, connate in a sessile or shortly stipitate, 
more or less perfectly 3-celled ee ovules usually 2, rare a 
ach carpel; style filiform; stigma minute. Fruit a mem- 
branous, loculicidal capsule. pes few, compressed ; testa black ; 
albumen Wien ; embryo rather large. 
Leaves fistular 
Leaves basa] cae ; heads dense, with flowers only ......... ascalonicum. 
- Leaves subdistichous ; heads dense, with flowers and bulbils...... Cepa. 
: Leaves f Oe ee 
Heads bearing flowers only ; bulb long, cylindric, simple :— 
Heads lax; filaments simple, linea: tuberosum 
Heads dense ; filaments 2-toothed peloprasum 
Heads lax, bearing both flowers and bulbils ; bulb tae compoun nd 
sativum. 
2225. Auuium ASCALONICUM Linn.; F. I. ii. 142; F. B. I. vi. 837; 
Dz. T67 
Cultivated. 
A bulbous herb. Beng. Gandhan, piyaj. The Shallot. 
2226. Auurum Cepa Linn.; F. I. ii. 142; F. B. I. vi. 887; E. 
A. 769, 
