t"be ftigmas nearly the length or fhorter than the anthers, not 

 longer, as in rofea. A tranfverfe lemon of the leaf of J acqu i n 's 

 fpecimen, a much ftronger plant than ours, affords the cruciate 

 form from which he derives the fpecific name. We are per- 

 fuaded that Li n n jeus adopted the name of rofea from one of the 

 figures in Miller's plates, where three fpecimens are given, 

 two coloured blue or purple and one pink or rofe, though 

 the fpecies is defcribed as light purple in the letter-prefs and 

 no mention made of the rofe-coloured variety. The above in- 

 accurate plate with Miller's defcription, was moft probably 

 all that LiNNiEUshad for a guide, hence his unlatisfa&ory 

 defcription and the confufion it has fince produced. J acqu in 

 is incorreQ. in defcribing the corolla as hexapetalous, as it has 

 a fhort tube ; he might with propriety have called it hexape- 

 taloid. Our generic name is from $£»'£ pilus and j^a filum, the 

 Ifilaments. being hairy. Its fpecies, already defcribed or figured, 

 are Ixia Bulbocodium, Linn. Syji. 83. Ixia rofea, Linn. Syft. 

 *& *3« 75* Ixia cruciata, fapra. Ixia chloroleuca, Jacq. 

 Coll. 4. 180. Ixia Bulbocodium, Bot. Rep. 170. Ixia hu- 

 tnilisy Thunb. Diff 4. prod. 9. ? Ixia pudica t Herb. Bankf. — 

 ^lore are known to us, but we fhall referve them for further 

 examination from living fpecimens. Dr. Dry and er is per- 

 fuaded that there are feveral fpecies even in Europe. The 

 genus feems to be intermediate between Crocus and Ixia, 

 perhaps the link that joins them ; when we have laid a larger 

 portion of this tribe before the public, we fhall then attempt 

 to (hew the mutual connexion of the genera that compofe it, 

 Vith fome further obfervations on them. This fpecies flowers 

 about May. Our drawing was taken from the rich collection 

 at George Hibbert's, Efq. Clapham, who received it by 

 his 'collector from the Cape; it flowered alfo this year at 

 Mr. Colville's, who had it from Holland, under the name 

 of an Amaryllis. Found by Thunberg in various parts 

 round Cape-Town, flowering in our fummer months. G. 



