Changes

*Welsh onion, Japanese bunching onion (En). *Ciboule (Fr). *Cebolinha, cozida (Po).

*Perennial glabrous herb, growing in tufts, usually grown as an annual or biennial plant, up to 50(–100) cm tall, with indistinct, ovoid to oblongoid bulb up to 10 cm long, lateral bulbs few to several or virtually absent; tunic white to pale reddish brown. *Leaves 4–12, distichously alternate, glaucous, with tubular sheath; blade cylindrical, hollow, 10–50(–100) cm × 0.5–2.5 cm, acute at apex. *Inflorescence a spherical umbel 3–7 cm in diameter, on a long, erect, terete, hollow scape up to 50(–100) cm long and up to 2.5 cm in diameter; umbel composed either of flowers or of bulbils only; spathe 1, hyaline, persistent, up to 1 cm long, splitting into (1–)2–3 parts. *Flowers bisexual, narrowly campanulate to urceolate; pedicel slender, up to 3 cm long; tepals 6, in 2 whorls, free, ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 6–10 mm long, white with greenish midvein; stamens 6, exceeding tepals, connate at base and adnate to tepals; ovary superior, 3-celled, style slender, exceeding tepals. *Fruit a globular capsule c. 5 mm in diameter, splitting loculicidally, few-seeded. *Seeds 3–4 mm × 2–2.5 mm, black.

* L.P.A. Oyen, PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands

PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands * C.-M. Messiaen , Bat. B 3, Résidence La Guirlande, 75, rue de Fontcarrade, 34070 Montpellier, France