Allium hymettium, Boiss. & Heldr.

73. A. hymettium Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 3(4): 120 (1859).

Bulbs 0-5-1 cm in diameter; outer tunics membranous. Stem 4-30 cm. Leaves 3-4, up to 11 cm x 0- 5 mm, filiform, usually scabridulous with minute teeth along the veins beneath, sheathing the lower š-å of the stem. Spathe 2-valved; valves unequal, up to 9 cm and longer than the pedicels, lanceo- late at base, contracted above into a slender filiform appendage. Umbel 1-3 cm in diameter, hemispherical or fastigiate, 8- to 30-

flowered; pedicels 5-12 mm, almost equal. Perianth cupshaped; segments 3 - 5-4 mm, greenish, yellow- sometimes browntinged (sometimes reddish when dry), the outer narrowly elliptical, c. 1 -5 mm wide, the inner elliptical, c. 2 mm wide, obtuse. Stamens exserted; filaments c. 5 mm, connate at base into an annulus c. 0-5 mm high; anthers yellow. Ovary subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, stalked. Capsule c. 3 mm. • S. & E. Greece. Gr.