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Asphodelus (Six or seven species of this)

The six or seven species of this genus are reduced by Baker to five; they inhabit the Mediterranean region, one extending as far as India and the Mascarene Islands. To those described on p. 125, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

A. acaulis (stemless). fl. six to twenty in a lax corymb; perianth pale pink, 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, funnel-shaped; peduncle very short or abortive. May. l. ten to twenty in a dense, radical rosette, linear, tapering to a point, 6in. to 12in. long, minutely pubescent. Algeria. (B. M. 7004.) A. comosus (tufted). fl., perianth 5/8in. long, the segments white, with a green keel; panicle 1ft. long, with a dense terminal raceme 2in. in diameter, and six or eight small side ones; peduncle stout, as long as the leaves. l., radical ones ensiform, 1 1/2ft. long, gradually tapering, acutely keeled at back. North-western Himalayas, 1887.