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NEW MONOCOTYLEDONS FROM CHINA AND TIBET. 
By A. B. Renpuz, M.A., D.Sc. 
(Puate 476.) 
Tue following notes and descriptions of new species have been 
made in the course of working out some Liliacee and Juncacee from 
toad ‘the Calcutta Herbarium, especially those collected on rahe Young- 
usband’s recent frontier commission, a full account of the botany 
of which is being prepared by Dr. Prain. The evident nee relation 
be dee some of the plants of Tibet and South-west China, a 
mplified, for instance, in Alliwm macr oc ied ze the com- 
cae ce ‘the Chinese collections, and the description of several 
novelties contained in ner collections made by Father Hugh (Scallan) 
in North Central Chin 
Aletris gracilis, sp. nov. vel minor, glabra, 
habitu A. nepalensis sed gracilior, foliis artis suberectis vel leviter 
recurvatis, caule brevioribus, ad 84 poll. longis, 2 lin. latis, siccis 
complicatis, superne acutatis; caule infra terete, vix 4 lin. lato, 
superne complanato ; racemo polli care vel minore, leviter 5-9-floro ; 
antibus vel longioribus; floribus 
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filamentis e basi to orum liberis, antheris cordatis ; ovario ovoideo, 
ad medium Bh adnato, cum stylo semilineo rostrato. 
Hab. Tibet ; Latong, 6000 ft., Younghusband, June 29th, 1903. 
A, nepalensis, Hook. f., b ut distinguished byits quite glabrous 
stem, more deeply divided perianth, and longer filaments. 
Auuium (Scua@noprasum) conpensatum Turcz. A large-flowered 
form of “this North-Asiatic species. The densely crowded cam- 
panulate flowers are borne on pedicels barely equal in length to the 
perianth, which is 6 mm. long. 
North Central ‘China : Shensi; Mt. Lao-y-san, Hugh, September, 
This species was also collected in Hupeh by Dr. A. Henry 
(no. 6926). 
Allium (Rarzirwwium) tibeticum, nov. Planta glabra 
cespitosa semipedalis, bulbo tenuiter snendd, in rhizomate, ut 
apparet ascendente, insidente, tunicis membranceis, pallide brunneis, 
demum in fibras parallelas solutis ; ; foliis 2-8, scapi basin vaginanti- 
bus, umbellam sepius vix attingentibus ; lamina line eare, superne 
umbella densiter pauciflora, spatha ea breviore, univalve, late 
scaphoidea e Barber’ rostrata; pedicellis florum dimidio rariter 
longioribus ; Wee on 0 subgloboso: -campanulato, cyaneo, segmentis 
obtusis, interioribus eee ato- oblongis, exterioribus paullo brevi- 
oribus, “asaoge lh concavis ; ota us perigo circa } brevioribus, 
a... asi anguste triangulare, interio us cum basi 
o subgloboso ; stylo incluso ; ovulis in ‘oculis ne otah 
es si Botany.—Vor. 44. [Fes. 1906.) 
