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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 Españolas" 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 ; rupicola,
which ascends higher than the two others, reaching over
into June.
DESCE. 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. Corona 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 oyoid or subglobose, half or three-
quarters of an inch in diameter, with a cylindrical sheath