20 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 146 



140084 to 140124— Continued 



140110. Allium sp. 



No. 6469. From Kotaliyetchinar, Khorassan, August 4, 1940. A steppe plant about 

 2 feet high, with a head 1 foot across. Rather rare. 



140111. Allium sp. 



No. 6471. From Kotaliyetchinar, Khorassan, August 4, 1940. A plant 2 feet high, 

 with yellowish flowers veined and washed brown, in heads 3 inches across. 



140112. Allium sp. 



No. 6688. From Bardu Forest, Khorassan, August 20, 1940. A hardy plant, with 

 a spindle-shaped swelling l 1 ^ inches through in the middle of the stem, and heads 

 2% inches across. 



140113. Allium sp. 



No. 6689. From Bardu Forest, Khorassan, August 20, 1940. A hardy plant 2 feet 

 high, with heads 2 inches across. 



140114. Allium sp. 



No. 6695. From Bardu Forest, Khorassan, August 20, 1940. An onion growing on 

 a dry slope, about 2% feet high, with heads 2^ inches across of rose-purple flowers. 



140115. Allium sp. 



No. 6696. From Bardu Forest, Khorassan, August 20, 1940. A hardy plant about 

 2 feet high, growing on a dry slope. 



140116. Allium sp. 



No. 6858. From Robat Khan, Khorassan, September 2, 1940. A desert plant about 

 15 inches high, with heads 2 inches across. 



140117. Allium sp. 



No. 6919. From Tabas, Khorassan, September 8, 1940. A wild onion with heads 

 2 inches across. 



140118. Allium sp. 



No. 6999. From Turbat Haidari, Khorassan, September 12, 1940. From a plowed 

 field. 



140119. Allium sp. 



No. 7230. From Shahmid, Khorassan, September 26, 1940. A hardy wild onion 3 

 feet high, with a head l 1 /^ inches across. 



140120. Allium sp. 



From Shahkuh, Khorassan, July 20, 1940. From a dry plateau. 

 140121 to 140124. Allium sativum L. Liliaceae. Garlic 



140121. No. 5939. From Ahwaz, Khuzistan, April 21, 1940. 



140122. No. 6210. From Tehran, June 24, 1940. 



140123. No. 7098. From Meshed, Khorassan, September 16, 1940. 



140124. No. 7174. From Sabzawar, Khorassan, September 23, 1940. 



140125. Furcraea selloa K. Koch. Amaryllidaceae. 



From Cuba. Bulbils presented by F. G. Walsingham, Assistant Superintendent, Atkins 

 Institution of the Arnold Arboretum, Soledad, Cienfuegos. Received March 21, 

 1941. 



A furcraea, with a short, stout stem, 3 to 5 feet high, clothed with old, brown leaves 

 and numerous, spreading, straight, bright-green, narrow lanceolate-ensiform leaves about 

 3 feet long, gradually narrowed into a long, pungent, deciduous, chestnut-brown spine, 

 the leaf margin armed with remote, incurved, horny, chestnut spines Vi inch long. The 

 slender, green scape, 15 to 20 feet high, bears a spreading, lax-branched panicle 4 to 6 

 feet long of rather crowded, drooping flowers, the greenish perianth segments with white 



