inflated, larger towards the end, very obtufe, with a fmall 

 foft point, or mucro ; the fcape is a great wav enclofed in the 

 Jheathing leaves, the flowering part only being protruded, 

 which generally bends down and then rifes as in the figure. 

 The flowers form an imbricated diftich fpike, are without fcent, 

 and arife from a fpathe of three valves. In the lower part of 

 the fpike, and fometimes for the whole length, no flowers are 

 produced, but a fmall bulb is contained in the outer valve 

 of the fpathe, of the fize and form of a grain of oat, which 



Jacquin confidered as an abortient flower enclofed in the 

 internal valves of the fpathe ; but Mr. Gawler having 

 planted thefe bodies they all grew, which proves them to 



be real bulbs. 



The Ixi a fjiulofa is a native of the Cape of Good-Hope, 

 and that from which our figure was drawn was imported from 

 thence by Ed. Woodford, Efq. in whofe collection it 

 flowered in June 1800. It has been alfo imported by Mr. 

 Grimwood, Nurferyman, at Brompton ; and the fpecimen 

 preferved in the Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks, marked 

 Ixi a teretifolia, flowered, at Mr. Malcolm's, at Stockwell, 

 in 1791. 



It feems to be rather fhy of flowering, being apt to produce 

 bulbs inftead of flowers ; by thefe, however, as the experiment 

 of Mr. Gawler {hews, it may be readily propagated. 



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