The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom . earibus, canalicula-rs, fcapo sequantibus; corolla declinata,lubo brevi; ftigmatibus fextuplicibus. Ixia with one flower on the ftem; leaves linear,and chann
The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom . earibus, canalicula-rs, fcapo sequantibus; corolla declinata,lubo brevi; ftigmatibus fextuplicibus. Ixia with one flower on the ftem; leaves linear,and channelled, the length of the flower-ftem; bloflbm declined, with a fhort tube-fummits fextuple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Bloflbm cut and fpread open, with the Chives, fhewn from the infide. 3. The fame, fliewn from the back or outfide. 4. The Pointal, with the Summits, magnified. This extremely delicate, and beautiful little Ixia, flowered, for the firft time, in March this year,1801, in the collection of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham Common; the bulbs having been received thepreceding autumn from the Cape of Good Hope. It appears to be one of thofe plants, which feldomfurvive the fecond feafon, in this climate; and we much fear, without a frefti fupply, it will be foonloft to this country; as it does not ripen its feeds, and the roots do not feeiu as if inclined to increafeby offsets. SES5BHP SPL*. ^ . /in/, ci Jt/i/i PLATE CLXXI. HYPOXIS LINEARIS. Linear-leaved Hypoxis. CLASS VI. O R D E R MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 6-partita, perfiftens, fupera. Capfulabafi anguftior. Spatha 2-valvis. Blossom 6-parted, remaining, above. Capfulenarrower at the bafe. Sheath 2 Hypoxis stellata, PI. CI. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hypoxis foliis linearibus, glabris, canaliculars,longiore fcapo unifloro; corolla intus au-rea, extus viridis. Hypoxis with linear leaves, fmooth, channelled,an
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