nally received by Mr. Sabine, in 1818, from Mr, William 

 Baxter, the Curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden. 



The other species, to which we have alluded, was pre- 

 sented to the Society, in 1820, by Alexander Macleay, Esq, 

 from his garden at Tilburster ; and is supposed to have 

 been imported from Smyrna. Its appearance was very sin- 

 gular, and resembled a N. Taxetta become dwarf, with an 

 umbel reduced to two flowers. The leaves were broad and 

 green ; the scape channelled, ancipitous, and nearly as 

 much flattened as in N. compressus; spathe 1 or 2 flowered; 

 peduncle an inch long, upright, and flattened ; germen 

 swollen and oval ; tube -f of an inch thick, cylindrical, en- 

 larged at the top and green ; petals white, imbricate, at 

 right angles with the nectary, | of an inch long, the outer 

 ones broader with a mucro ; nectary 4^ of an inch long, 

 bright yellow, cylindrical, perfectly truncate, without notches 

 or wrinkles. We have distinguished it by a name whibh 

 will be always respected, so long as science and liberality 

 continue to be objects of esteem ; and we would charac- 

 terize it thus : 



N. MacUaii, spatha 1-2-flora, scapo compresso subancipiti, petalis pa- 

 tentibus imbricatis tubo nectarioque cylindrico tnincato integerrimo paultk 

 loDgioribus. 



Of N, Sabini the Leaves are pale-green, broad, and few. 

 Scape ancipitous, channelled. Flowers solitary, cemuous. 

 Flower-stalk 1^ inch long, erect. Germen small, with the 

 tube of the corolla, which is cylindrical, somewhat funnel- 

 shaped, quite green, and equal to the petals, fonning a 

 right-angle with the stalk. Petals whitish, broad, imbri- 

 cate, shining, ovate, at right-angles with the nectary, bat 

 not standing regularly. Nectary yellow, plaited, columnar, 

 corroded at the edge, | of an inch long, 4- shorter than 

 the pMBtals, Stamens shorter than the nectary ; style equal 

 to it in length. 



J. L, 



