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nally received by Mr. Sabine, in 1818, from Mr. William 
Baxter, the Cur ator 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. Tazetta 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 3 of an inch thick, cylindrical, en- 
‘larged at the top and green ; petals white, imbricate, at 
right angles with the nectary, 2 of an inch long, the outer 
ones broader with a mucro; ‘nectary 4 of an inch long, 
‘bright yellow, cylindrical, per fectly truncate, without notches 
‘or wrinkles. We have distinguished it by a name which | 
‘will be always respected, so long as science and. liberality 
continue to be objects of esteem; and we would. charac- 
terize it thus : 
N. Macleaii, spatha 1-2-flora, scapo compresso subancipiti, petalis pa- 
“tentibus: imbricatis tubo nectarioque cylindrico truncato Mtegsty pe pauld 
longioribus, 
~ Of N. Sabini the Leaves are pale-green, pron and few. 
Scape ancipitous, channelled. Flowers solitary, cernuous. 
Flower-stalk 14 inch long, erect. Germen small, with the 
‘tube of the corolla, which is cylindrical, somewhat funnel- 
‘shaped, quite green, and equal to the petals, forming a 
‘right-angle with the stalk. Petals whitish, broad, imbri- 
cate, shining, ovate, at right-angles with the nectary, but 
not standing regularly. Vectary yellow, plaited, columnar, 
corroded at the edge, 3 of an inch long, 4 shorter than 
the petals. Stamens shorter than the nectary ; style equal 
to it in length. 
J. L. 
