42, THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Plants 8 em. high. a blade, when flattened, 3 mm. 
broad. -Umbel 1-2 cm. in diameter. Flowers ‘‘ deep blue,” 5 cm. 
long, pedicel ater more than half ha length ; anthers about 1 mm 
long ; style scarcely 3 mm. long. 
Tibet : Karo La Pass, about 16,500 ft., i July, 1904; 
near Maku La, Toungnuahens pale Seeust f 1908, 178; Karo 
La, fifteen miles from Lhassa, Dungbo 3th, 1878. 
Near d. arash Baker, but Teceattied i the smaller, less 
saituandiae flowers, with the alternate stamens broad- shouldered 
and often toothe 
eo, sup 
er oak. e nicis scariosis, integris rubrotinctis ; scapo infra 
medium foliato, foliis 2-4, planis, anguste linearibus, obtasis, scapo 
paullo longioribus, superne autem recurvatis ; scapo leve, terete, 
superne compresso ; umbella spherica, densiter multiflora ; spatha 
aper 
hapa segmen Pokine sibenireits obovatis, obtusis; sta- 
minibus simp licibus liberis, angustissime subulatis, prope basin 
petalorum fairtis ovario subgloboso; stylo tenue; loculis bi- 
ovulatis 
Plant about 12 em. high ; bulb about 2 cm. long by 1 oo broad. 
Leaf-blade to 8 em. long by 2mm. broad. Umbel 2 iam. 
spathe 1 cm. long. ateta ‘5 em. long; filaments of stamens 
8mm.long. Ovary barely 2mm. long; style nearly 6 m hone 
Hab. Tibet; Po:tatig-to, two miles north of Phari i, Dung 
Aug. 16th, 1878. 
A well-marked species, perhaps sot toes allied to the Western 
Himalayan 4. blandum Wall., but a maller ana and dis- 
tinguished also by its very shortly pedicelled whit flowers 
ium (Ruarziriivm) fasciculatum Planta glabra, 
sp. 0 
lis vel minor rarius altior, bulbo tenue, basi fibris barallelia 
rigidulis cincto et radici bus crassis vel tuberosis suffulto, caule i in 
cuti 
nt ee stamina paullulo excedentibus; filamentis subulatis, 
tegris, basi petalis ae antheris cordatis ; ovario subgloboso, 
breviter tipitto stylo br 
m 12-36 cm. Wight bulb obsolete, the seape surrounded 
below gas one-fourth to one-third or more of its length, with 
rootstock 
of fleshy subfusiform or cylindric roots, about 2 cm. long. 
tiaras 20 cm. in length, and between 8 and 4 mm. in breadth. 
Umbel 23 cm. or less in diameter; spathe nearly 2 cm. long; 
