Allium stamineum, Boiss.

74. A. stamineum Boiss. , op. cit. 119 (1859).

Bulbs c. 1 cm in diameter; outer tunics membranous. Stem 10-35 cm. Leaves 3-4, up to 15 cm x 0-5-1 mm, filiform, sheathing the lower i-4 of the stem. Spathe 2-valved; valves unequal, persistent, lanceolate at base, contracted above into a slender appendage, the longer 1 - 5-7 cm, usually not much longer than the pedicels. Umbel 2-5-7 cm in diameter, usually many-flowered, lax; pedicels 10-40 mm, very unequal. Perianth cup-shaped; segments 3 -5-5 x 1 -6-2-2 mm, pale purplish, the outer oblong, rounded at apex, the inner narrowly ovate, obtuse. Stamens exserted; filaments c. 5 mm, connate at base into an annulus c. 0-6 mm high. Ovary subglobose, sessile; style c. 3 mm. Capsule c. 3 mm. S.E. part of Balkan peninsula. Gr Tu.

A. amphipulchellum Zahar. , Biol. Gallo-Hellen. 6: 57 (1975), described from N. Greece (Makedhonia), is said to vary in flower- colour from yellowish-green to violet within the same population; ll it. Lun may] be UU UULIDPUUIIIU VVllll with. 74.