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towards the base, loosely substriate, green and subglaucous. 

 Umbel large, densely and very numerously flowered, subovoid- 

 globose or depressedly so, about 10cm. in diameter ; bract pale, 

 thinly membranaceous and scarious, then deeply parted into the 

 2 orbicular pieces. Flowers white, the external ones sterile ; 

 pedicels viridescent and glaucous, attaining about 2Jcm. long, 

 obconically enlarged under the flower at the top. Perianth 

 connivent-campanulate, shortly connate at the base, erect, gla- 

 brous, membranaceous and scarious, attenuato-acuminate at the 

 apex, minutely subserrulate on margin, with a viridescent mid- 

 rib ; the outer 3 ovato-oblong, shorter and smaller, about 7-9 

 mm. long ; the inner 3 ovato-elliptical, 9-10mm. long. Sta- 

 mens exserted, inserted at the base of the perianth ; filament 

 subulato-filiform, white, glabrous ; anther erect, oblong-elliptical, 

 obtuse at the apex, shortly bifid at the base, yellow, about 

 lfmm. long. Ovary trilobate, viridescent, glabrous ; style 



erect, exserted, subulate ; stigma small, punctate. Capsule tri- 

 lobed, concave at top, thinly carpeled, about 5mm. across. 

 Seeds 2 in each cell, black, obovoid-oval, plano-convex, angulated, 

 2J-3mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Ippon-negi, Shimonita-negi, O-nebuka. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cultivated. 



A remarkable variety ; all the parts are much larger than 

 the type, and the bulb is usually solitary. 



(To he continued.) 



