Allium.] oLvi. LiLiACB^. (J. D. Hooker.) 339 



** Leaves filiform. 



sJl^'-hl^^^^]^^^ ^- -^'i^ f^- ^'''*''- ^"""^ i- 264; leaves ^-terete or 

 ^aSp^^tfl ^^°^°'''F''^l'','^' much longer than the very small cam- 

 iW^^^if if ■°'^®'!' !tP''^' °^^TS- ""^ elliptic-ohlong acuminate, fikments 

 btl/ .^ n^ ^* *^' \"y i'^'" ^" ^^'"Pl^ linear-lanceolate from a 

 kest. t. 10 f 9 ; G Bon Monogr. All. 36 ; Kunth EmimA-v. 399 Bois8. J-Z. 



flnr,^' ""r i 7.' w ^iS'" '" -"^""T^; ^"l- ^f ^' 290- ^- ^"ibellum and grandi- 

 flornm, ie^eS J-Z. ^oM IV. 171. A. leptophyllum, Wall. Cat. 5073 A; 

 |-«,ia I.e. 456. A. Jaoqnemontii, ^»^«iA I. c. 399. A. lon^isepaltim, 

 Bert.m Nov.Comm. Acad. Bonon. v. 429. A. tenue, (?. Z»o» Monogr. All. 

 6i ; Koch m Lmnma, xxii. 238. 



The Panjab and Wesxeen Himalaya, alt. 1500-8000 ft.: from Kashmir to 

 Kumaon.-DiSTEiB Westwards to the Ural and Caucasus, aud in Siberia 

 loni^r thTn thpT : °^' °"'"' ''°^*' ''""'«• '""«'• membranous, ieaws 4-6, 

 spathe entire or 2-4-fid at length circumciss. SepaU i-i in., twice Js Ion? as the 

 thXiLTion nf lb-'"''"'-''' ™ *.'-r^P^'«- «^^J«^hort.t7r baie f olLwed Boissier in 

 nl^rtv h° i^ '?K T \"'' ?'' ^^"eties. Regel refers Don's ten^e to A. Pallasi, 

 ■? Z!"^7j- 'n.^!K^?^''™S^'™^^'yI«'- he retains as a species Boissier's 



A. ffr#tt«„«m which the latter author has reduced to a variety of r»6«M«m. 



.»nJ^f". :^''f° T'-^f'*i/^- ^"^»*- '^^ 253 J pedicels longer, flowers larger, 

 B?l; ^- '"■ l"^ ^l^acute filaments much shorter and broader A. Griffithianum 

 Sous. Dtagn. Ser 2, iv. 117; Regel All. Monogr. 108; lio,Tcer I. c. 290. A. vuU 



WesSd to Persk *'°*'°*" ^""- ^"^^ ^°- *9-Kashmir, alt. 5-7000 ft. 



Vae. t. parviflora, Ledeb Fl. Boss. iv. 171 ; flowers smaller, sepals i in. long. 

 A^ syntamanthum, C.Koch in Zinnia. 22, 239; Begel All. Monogr. 110.- 

 Western Himalaya. Westward to S. Eussia. 



6 A. lilacinum, Boyle mss. ; leaves terete or channelled longer or 

 snorter than the scape, head hemispheric, pedicels twice as long as or 

 longer than the campanulate small pale red flowers, sepals ovate or ovate- 

 lanceoiate acute or obtuse, filaments exserted inner 2-toothed at the very 

 base. Beget All. Monogr. 89. A. rubens, Baher in Journ. Bot. 1874, 293 

 (not of Schrad.). 



Westebn Himalaya, alt. 6-7000 ft. ; from Garwhal westwards. 



BmZ6 ovoid; coats Bcarious, red-brown. Leaves 2-3. Scape 8-10 in., fistular 

 iicad l-lj in. diam. ; spathes 2, acuminate; pedicels t-J in. Sepals i in. long, 

 with the filaments inserted near their bases ; anthers large. 



Sect. II. Ehizieidittm. Bulls solitary or clustered upon an erect or 

 creeping rootstock. Leaves flat. 



A. Scales of bulb membranous, not of reticulated fibres. 



* Stamens longer than the perianth. 



7. A. blandum, Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 38, t. 260; tall, stout, leaves 

 flat broadly linear obtuse shorter than the tall scape, head globose very 

 dense-fld., pedicels shorter than the campanulate pale pink flowers, -sepals 

 oblong obtuse, filaments simple subulate much exserted. Eunth Smmi. 

 iv. 396; Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 295. A. obtusifolium, Klotusch Sf 

 GarcJce, Bot. Beise Br. Wald. 51, t. 95. 



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