Allium.] oLvi. LiMAOBS. (J. D. Hooker.) 343 



lanceolate. Ovary broadly obcordate, style exserted. Qapsule ^ in. diam. cuneately 

 obcordate. 



Var. amgustifoUa ; leaves i-li in. broad, flowers pale pink. — Interior of Sikkim, 

 alt. 10-12,000 ft. West Nepal, DutMe. 



19. A. Schrenkl, Begel All. Monogr. 172 ; leaves linear flat sborter 

 than the terete striate scape, head globose, pedicels shorter than the 

 purplish campannlate perianth, filaments simple shortly exserted. 



Himalaya Mts., Sort. Oalcutt. (Regel.). — Disteib. Siberia. 



Sulbs sabcylindric, inserted on a stout cylindrie rootstock ; outer scales densely 

 fibrous, reticulate, brown. Leaves 3-4 below the middle of the scape, ^o-i in. broad. 

 Scape 8-16 in., striate and grooyed towards the top, strict or flexuous. Head many- 

 fid. ; spathes scarions, white, shorter than the head; flowering pedicels -^jj in,, 

 shorter than the perianth, at length i in. Filaments unequal, outer liuear-subalate, 

 inner subulate from a lanceolate base. Ovary ovoid, 3-gonou8 ; style at length very 

 long, stigma capitate. — I have seen no Himalayan specimen. Regel says it differs from 

 the widely diffused A. strictum, Sobrad. in the capitate stigma. 



** Stamens shorter than the perianth. 



20. A. odorum, Linn. Mcmt. 62 ; leaves many basal very narrowly 

 linear flattish keeled shorter than the terete slender scape, head many or 

 few-fld., pedicels mnch or rather longer than the small white campannlate 

 perianth, filaments shorter than and adnate below to the obovate-oblong 

 mucronate or snbacute sepals triangnlar-lanceolate, style included. Kunth 

 Enum. iv. 185; Regel All. Monogr. 175; {excl. 8yn. tuberosum, &c.) Baker 

 in Journ. Bot. 1874, 291 ; Bedoute Lit t. 98 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1142. A. 

 tatarioum. Ait. Sort. Kew ed. 2, ii. 233. 



Western Tibet ; alt. 10-14,000 ft., Thomson. Westebn Nepal, alt. 13,000 ft., 

 DutMe. — Disteib. N. Asia, Japan. 



Sulh 1-4 in. clustered on an oblique jointed rootstock, subcylindric or conic ; 

 scales finely reticulate, white brown or blackish. Leaves many, 6-24 by ^Jg-J in., 

 subacute. Scape terete or angled at the tip. Head 1-li in. diam. ; spathes short, 

 mucronate J pedicels short, filiform, angled, flowering i in., fruiting IJ in. Sepals 

 i in., with usually a strong nerve. Filaments subequal, outer dilated at the base, 

 inner ovate with a subulate tip. Ovary subglobose, trigonous. Capsule subglohose. 



21. A. tuberosum, itoxi. Hort. Beng. 24; Fl. Ind. n.14,1; leaves 

 4-5 basal erect narrow-linear flat tall compressed or trigonous above, 

 head lax-fid. pedicels much longer than the small _ white _ or pink 

 stellate flowers, sepals oblong-lanceolate, filaments simple linear in- 

 cluded connate below and perigynous, style short. Baker in Journ. 

 Bot. 1874, 292 ; Eunth Enum. iv. 454 ; Wall. Cat. 5068. A. Roxburghii, 

 G. Don. Monogr. All. 91 ; Kunth I. c. 454. A. uliginosum, G. Bon. I. c. 

 60 ; Eunth I. c. 422. A. senescens, Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. iii. 154. 



Western Himalaya, Boyle. Khasia Mts., alt. 5-60C0 ft. (apparently wild). 

 Griffith, &o. Cultiviited in JBenoal, BoajfcaryA.— Distbib. China, Siam, Japan. 



BuUs elongate, cylindrie, with white fleshy root-fibres: scales gruy, fibrous. 

 Leaves 6-12 by ' x in. ; sometimes concave and twisted. Scape 1-li It. Head 

 20-40-fld., hemispheric, 1-li in. diam., spathes 1-2 small ; pedicels ascending, ^-li 

 in. Sepah 4-J in. ; acute or obtune, at length reflexed, filaments inserted on the 

 bases of the sepals, gradually dilated from below the middle to the base, outer 

 shorter, broader. Ovary giobosely obovoid, deeply 3-lobed; stigma obscurely 

 3-toothed ; cells 3-ovuled. Gapsvle obcordate.— Regel cites this as a synonym of 

 A. odorum, 'and it is possible that it maybe the cultivated form of that plant. 

 Wallich's specimens are from the Mission Garden, Tranquebar. 



