Allium dilatatum, Zahar.

98. A. dilatatum Zahar. , Ann. Mus. Goulandris 3: 88 (1977).

Bulbs T5-2cm in diameter, ovoid; outer tunics membranous.

Stem 25-50 cm. Leaves 3-4, 1-2 mm wide, filiform, fistular, sheathing the lower of the stem, withered at anthesis. Spathe 1 -valved, caducous. Umbel 1 -5-4 cm in diameter, hemispherical, with 15-35 flowers; pedicels 5-15 mm. Perianth narrowly cylindrical; segments white, with broad green keel, the outer 4 X0-8-1 -4 mm, lanceolate, acute or subacute, the inner 4-5- 5 X0-8-1 -6 mm, oblong-spathulate, almost truncate at apex, mucronate, papillose on the keel. Stamens exserted; outer 3 filaments 4-5-5 mm, simple, the inner 3 with the basal lamina nearly 3 times as long as the central cusp, the lateral cusps twice as long as the central cusp; anthers greenish. Capsule 3-5-4 mm. Rocky places, 400-800 m. • 5. W. Kriti. Cr. Perhaps best treated as a further subspecies of 97.