Neourbania

Fawcett & Rendle ,in Bot . 47 (1909), 125 .

Laelieae . IV .Gr. neos (new , i.e., a second genus named for....), Urban (personal name) .Dedicated to Professor Ignaz Urban (1848-1931) , German botanist , native of Westfalia ,who collaborated in von Martius ' " Flora Brasiliensis ," served as Professor or Botany in the University of Berlin and Sub-Director of the Botanic Garden at Berlin-Dahlem , wrote extensively on botanical biography ,and specialized on the flora of the West Indies ,editing the monumental work " Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis ."