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P L A T E XLIV.
I X I A C i N N A M O M E A.
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C L A S S in. ORDER L
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointah
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHAEACTEE.
COEOLLA 6-petala, patens, aequalis. Stigmata
tria, ereéliufculo patula.
BLOSSOM fix petals, fpreading, and equal. Summits
three, nearly upright, fpreading.
See IXIA REFLEXA, Plate X IV,
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis falcatis, crifpis; floribus alternis, nodiflorens,
cinnamomi odore.
Ixia with fcimitar-fluaped leaves, waved at the
edge; flowers alternate, blowing at night,
and fmelling of cinnamon.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Chives, attached to the tubular part of the Bloflbm, the border cut off, (magnified).
4. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified).
AMONGST this moft extenfive genus no fpecies ftands more diftinft than this. The extreme fweetnefs
and delicacy of its bloffoms, which expand only by night, and clofe in the morning, give it a decided
fuperiority over many of its congeners. Thunberg, who faw it at the Cape, has defcribed it under
the name it here bears; but till the year 1792 we had no knowledge of it, when it was firft introduced
by MeiTrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope; at whofe nurfery
it flowered the following year; where it continues to blow annually, and whence this figure was taken.
It is rather a tender bulb, fmall, and eafily rotted; Ihould therefore be placed in the warmefl: part of
the greenhoufe, and kept dry when out of flower; is rather difficult to increafe, as each bulb feldom
produces more than one offset, nor that always, and rarely feeds.
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