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172 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 3d<br />
B.<br />
C.<br />
II. Outer scales of bulb of netted<br />
fibres.<br />
1. Stamens longer than the<br />
perianth ...<br />
2. Stamens shorter than the<br />
perianth.<br />
a. Flowering stem sharpangled<br />
(fig. 4) ...<br />
b.<br />
Flowering stem round ...<br />
BB. Bulbs not seated upon a rootstock.<br />
I. Flowers rose-purple<br />
...<br />
II. Flowers white<br />
Leaves hollow.<br />
I. Flowers dark red<br />
II. Flowers pink or pale purple...<br />
III. Flowers pale yellow.<br />
1. Bulbs tufted<br />
2. No bulbs<br />
Leaves filiform<br />
A. victorialis.<br />
A. humile.<br />
A. Clarkei.<br />
A. atropurpureum.<br />
A. loratum.<br />
A. atrosanguineum.<br />
A. Schoenoprasum.<br />
A. Semonovii.<br />
A. Fedschenkoanum.<br />
A. rubellum.<br />
The species will be described in alphabetical order.<br />
Allium atropurpureum, Waldst. & Kit.<br />
(Atropurpureum means dark purple.)<br />
Bulb round-egg-shaped, scales entire. Leaves 2-4, narrowly<br />
linear-oblong or lance-shaped, 1-2 ft. by 1-2 in., shorter than<br />
the tall, erect, hollow flowering stem<br />
;<br />
sheaths sometimes<br />
slightly hairy. Flowering stem 2-2i ft. high. Heads usually<br />
hemispheric, 2-2i in. diameter, very many- and dense-flowered ;<br />
spathes 2-4. Flower-stalks |-1 in. long, much longer than the<br />
rose-purple, star-shaped flowers. Perianth-segments linearoblong,<br />
pale or dark purple. Filaments awl-shaped, about as<br />
long as the segments, inserted at the bases of the segments,<br />
united at the base. Ovary almost globose or depressed. Style<br />
short. Capsule globose.<br />
Flowers. June.<br />
Locality. Near Shirazia Bagh, on rocky and gravelly top<br />
of hill ; Kishtwar, 8,000-10,000 ft.<br />
Distribution. Kashmir, westwards to Hungary, Turkestan,<br />
Siberia.
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