356 CLVi. LiLiACBiR. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gagea. 



as the perianth, seeds compressed not angled or winged. Gr. amblyopetala, 

 var. bulbifera, Boiss.; Begel Fl. Turkest. 112, t. 17 (non Boiss.). Gr. 

 stipitata, Merlcl. in Bunge Bel. Saenk. 512. Bnlbillaria gageoides, Zvmc. 

 in Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Bay. iii. 230, t. 2, f. I. Lloydia kunawarensis, 

 Boyle III. 388, t. 93, f. 3. 



Westebn Himalaya ; from Kunawar to Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft., Uoyle, &c. 

 — DiSTBiB. Westwards to Persia, Turkestan. 



£ulb solitary In the coats. Radical leafi-G by J-J in. Stem 4-6 in., glabrous, 

 very slender. Cymes 1-2 in., often with bulbils in the axils of the short very 

 slender pedicels. Sepals linear, obtuse; filaments nearly as long, anthers sub. 

 didymous. Capsule nearly as long as the perianth. Seeds compressed, not angled 

 or winged. 



3. C reticulata, Schultes f. Syst. vii. 542 ; leaves all very long 

 filiform reonrved cauline numerous subverticillate, flowers many sub- 

 umbellate, sepals 5-5 in. long acute or finely acuminate, capsule as long 

 as the perianth, seeds flat angular. Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 208 ; Beichb. Fl. 

 Germ. x. t. 481; Begel Fl. Turkest. 110, t. 19, f. 1t4; Expl. Alger. 

 t. 45 bis, f. I. Gr. taurica, Stev. Tour. 335 [ex Boiss.) Gr. oommutata, 

 sarmentosa, and triphylla, C. Koch in Linnsea, xxii. 227-230. Gr. peduncu- 

 lata. Wall. Cat. 5066. 



The Panjab Piains ; ascending the Western Himalaya, Salt Range, &c., to 

 5500 ft. — DiSTEiB. Westwards to Greece and N. Africa, Turkestan. 



£bW densely fibrilliferous. Stem 2-3 in., stout or slender. Leaves 4-8 in., 

 cauline usually very many, and long, rarely few and short. Flowers numerous, 

 very variable in size, green with a white border. Anthers linear-oblong. 



26. COXiCKICVIXt, Linn. 



Corm coated. Leaves radical, linear or lanceolate. Scape very short, 

 sessile amongst the leaf-sheaths, 1-3-fld. Flowers large, erect. Perianth 

 funnel-shaped; tube very long and slender; lobes 6, subequal, suberect. 

 Stamens 6, inserted in the bases of the segments, included ; anthers dorsi- 

 fixed, versatile, introrse. Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; styles 3, long, filiform ; 

 cells many-ovuled. Capsule chartaceous, septicidal. Seeds subglobose ; testa 

 appressed brown. — Species about 30, Europe, N. Africa and temp. Asia. 



C. luteuiUj Baker in Card. Ghron. (1874) 33; Journ. Linn. 8oe. 

 xvii. 434 ; leaves appearing with the flowers liaear-oblong or oblanceo- 

 late obtuse, perianth golden yellow, tube 3-4 in., segments oblong or 

 oblanceolate obtuse many-nerved. Bot. Mag. t. 6153. Melanthacese, Cfriff. 

 Notul. iii. 241 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 278, f. 2. 



Western Tempeeate Himalaya; Kashmir, alt. 4-7000 ft., Thomson, &c., 

 Chamba, Ellis, &c. — Uistbib. Affghanistan, Turkestan. 



Corm gibbously ovoid, coats dark brown. Leases few, lorate, short at the 

 flowering time, at fruiting 6-12 by J-J in., tip rounded. Flowers 1-2 (in spring), 

 1-li in. diam. when expanded. Stamens shorter than the perianth ; filaments very 

 much shorter than the long yellow anthers. Sti/le filiform, much longer than the 

 perianth. Capsule l-lj in. ; valves with long recurved beaks. 



27. XtlEREMDERA, Bamond. 



Habitand ohiraoters of Golohi^um,, but with the perianth-segments free 

 to their base, their loug slender claws forming a tube, and the anthers 



