AMARYLLIDACEiE. 
30 G 
another absurdity which will never be found to exist. It is 
probably an execrable representation of Ganymedes capax 
with the margin of the cup incorrectly given ; and, looking 
at the rest of Rudbeck’s figures, I have no hesitation in re- 
jecting it as a non-entity. There is no account of the quarter 
from which it was obtained. 
9. Sabinianus. — PI. 38. f. 41. Bot. Reg. 9. 762. Limb 
white, 1|- inch long; cup yellow, tube f ; style 
lj long; petaline filaments adnate, ~ of an inch 
from the base of the tube, sepaline near 
This is a very distinct and remarkable species, which was 
brought to notice by a specimen and bulb, sent (as I am in- 
formed) to Mr. Sabine from the Botanic Garden at Oxford, 
where it may have been growing unnoticed for the last two 
centuries, as very little attention seems to have been paid to 
its old inhabitants. Mr. Sabine, who has paid great atten- 
tion to the Narcisseae, having appeared to think that it was 
not a natural species, but a cross-bred garden production, I 
have given particular consideration to that point, and I think 
it must be a natural species. The reasons for suspecting a 
spurious origin are, its departure from the other known spe- 
cies of Ajax in a higher adhesion of the filaments to the 
tube, a very little tendency to a curvature of the anthers, 
and a shorter proportional cup, and in all those features it 
draws nearer than any other species of Ajax to the general 
character of the genus Queltia. Two considerations present 
themselves: in the first place, whether the plant offers any 
indications in itself of a spurious and imperfect structure, 
such as might be expected from a bigeneric mule, or a plant 
cross-bred between two sections of a genus, differing in struc- 
ture, if they be considered as forming one genus ; secondly, 
whether we know any species of Ajax and Queltia, from 
whose accidental intermixture in cultivation, this particular 
form of plant could seem likely to have been produced. I 
find no indications of imperfection ; the ovules are plump 
and well defined, and have the usual form, with the raphe 
and chalaza usually observable in other species of Ajax ; nor 
did I observe in the fresh specimen any apparent sterility of 
the anther. I have known no intermixture of any two vege- 
tables, so well distinguishable from each other as Ajax and 
Queltia ; and, if their union can possibly take place, I should 
conceive the produce must be sterile and imperfect. If that 
