country, and flower about the same time. They are all 
natives of the mountains of Central Spain, at an elevation 
above sea-level of from two thousand to four thousand 
feet; and are all three figured in the ‘“ Ramilletes de 
Plantas Hspanolas” of Graells, published at Madrid in 
1859. For the specimens here drawn we are indebted to 
‘Mr. G. Maw, who has cultivated them successfully at 
Broseley, and distributed bulbs with his usual liberality. 
In their native mountains they flower in April; rwpicola, 
which ascends higher than the two others, reaching over 
into June. 
Desor. N. pallidulus. Bulb ovoid, about half an inch 
in diameter, with a cylindrical sheath produced less than 
an inch above its neck. Leaf single, suberect, very narrow, 
glaucescent, channelled down the face, as long as the 
scape. Scape very slender, terete, half a foot or a foot 
long, bearing one or two drooping flowers on elongated 
pedicels. Perianth pale sulphur-yellow ; tube subcylindri- 
cal, half or three-quarters of an inch long; segments 
lanceolate, reflexed, as long as the tube; corona cyathi- 
form, the same colour as the perianth, rather shorter than 
the segments, truncate at the throat. Three longer 
stamens and the style a little exserted from the corona; 
the three other anthers nearly sessile at the throat of the 
perianth-tube. 
N. Graellsii. Bulb globose, half or three-quarters of an 
inch in diameter, with a cylindrical sheath produced an 
inch above its neck. Leaves two or four to a bulb, narrow 
linear, often overtopping the flower. Scape one to three 
inches long, always bearing only a single suberect flower, 
on a very short pedicel. Perianth pale sulphur-yellow ; 
tube funnel-shaped, half or three-quarters of an inch long ; 
segments lanceolate, loosely ascending, not more than half 
as long as the tube, furnished with a broad keel of green, 
which runs down the tube. Obvrona cyathiform, about 
half an inch long and broad, the same colour. Stamens 
and style declinate, all about the same length, and pro- 
truded from the corona. 
N. rupicola. _Bulb ovoid or subglobose, half or three- 
quarters of an inch in diameter, with a cylindrical sheath 
