1076 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Allium. 
Cultivated. 
A bbs herb. Hind. Piyaj; Beng. Piya}, palanda. 
The Onio 
2227. Auuium TUBEROSUM Roxb.; F. I. ii. 141; F. B. I. vi. 343; 
E. D. se 
fis 
Cultivat 
A hnalbotsi herb. Beng. Banga gandina. The Indian 
ek. 
ee 
2228. ae AmprLoprasum Linn.; F. B. I. vi. 837. A. Por- 
fie d4hs Dee, 775. 
Aeatiee ed. 
bulbous herb. Beng. aan a The Leek. 
2229. Atuium sativum Linn.; F. I. : FB. Bi. 1. vie S88; 
E. D. A. 779. 
Cultivated. 
A bulbous herb. Vernac. Lasun. Garlic. 
970. Asphodelus Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs, with slender or fleshy root-fibres; 
leaves radical, linear, 3-cornered or terete and fistular. Flowers 
small, racemose on the simple or sparingly branched leafless 
scape ; pedicels jointed, solitary in the axils of the small, scarious 
racts. Perianth petaloid, bape segments 6, free or 
shortly connate below. Stamens 6, hypogynous, shorter than 
perianth- {obea, erect or dia declinate; filaments wide- 
based, enclosing the ovary, flattened or filiform above; anthers 
oblong or almost linear, versatile, the filament inserted in a pit on 
the back of the connective. Carpels 3, connate in a 3-celled ovary; 
ovules 2, peng in each cell; style filiform; stigma somewhat 
3-lobed. Fruit a globose, 3-quetrous, loculicidal capsule, with 
rugose partitions. Seeds usually solitary in each cell of capsule ; 
testa black, usually rugose; albumen cartilaginous; embry? 
sites 
. ASPHODELUS TENUIFOLIUS Cav.; F. B. I. vi. 882. 4. 
clavatus F. 48. 
In the wae, and central provinces. 
An annual weed. 
971. Chlorophytum Ker. 
Herbs with a short, hard rootstock, emitting many fascicled 
roots, often thick and fleshy or tuber-like; leaves radical, clus- 
