fine aromatic odour like fome of the varieties of honeyfuckle. 

 Spathe fomewhat fhorter than tube, fubconduplicate, keeled, 

 and often edged in the maimer of the caulme leaves. Tube 

 about the length of the limb, which is quite patent, exterior 

 fegments largelt and fomewhat re Hexed, of a Hne mining brown 

 on the outride*, interior ones all white and fomewhat more 

 concave. Anthers fagittately fubulate incumbent, verfatile, 

 pale, each of them fomewhat refembling in pofition the needle 

 of a mariner's compafs. Stigmas capillary, fometimes pu- 

 befcenu 



Introduced into Kew garden by Mr. Mas son in 1787, 

 flowers in April. We can perceive no difference between this 

 and I xi a annamomea y except in the remarkable crifpature of 

 the leaves and more numerous fmaller flowers of the latter:- — 

 may thefe didinctions be loft by culture? The former was 

 found byTnuxBEKG on the hills about Cape-Town, the 

 latter on thole of Loweftaart. They are both called by the 

 Dutch Cannclbloem, on account of their fmell, as alfo Avond- 

 blonn, from their time of flowering, which at the Cape is faid 

 to take place fo precifely at four in the afternoon, that the 

 hour of the day may be known by it, except rain is at 

 hand, which, by remaining clofed, thev predict as certainly as 

 a barometer. Both, as well as Ixia pilofa and radiata t are in 

 great requell there on account of their fragrance. Propagates 

 with us by feed and offsets, but more (lowly than molt other 

 fpecies of this family. It is apt to luxuriate in the number 

 of fegments and in the parts of fructification. Our drawing 

 was taken at the nurfery of MefTrs. Grimwood and Wykes, 

 Kenfington, vhere it flowered this year in great perfection, 

 the root throwing up two ftems. It requires a very fmal! pot, 

 to be put entirely in bog-earth, and when paft flowering to 

 be carefully preferved from all moifture. Is ftill one of the 

 rarer fpecies. G. 



• Tn Jacqutn's figure the colour is a bright carmine, and in the defcription 

 is laid to be purple. 



