pon ~ Bropi#a Ixtornes. Ixta-.ike 
wank ol} of oizogqo Bropiei. 
' ~ Class and Order. ee 
Trranpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 0. Cor. infera, tubulosa, limbo sexfido, r wulari ; 
corona triphylla in fauce. Caps. trilocularis, polysperma. 
Smiru in Lan. Soc. Trans. 10. p. 2. / 
Specific Character. 
Bropixa ixioides s corone foliolis subulatis. 
a pene _ mG 
Descr. Root a roundish bulb-tuber. Leaves linear. 
Convex on the outside, and somewhat concave within. 
Scape rounded, longer than the leaves. Spathe (or Bractes) 
two valved, erect, bearing three or four flowers on longish 
peduncles, which come out one at a time, and are of long 
duration. Corolla tubular, inferior : tube three-sided-cylin- 
drical, green: limb deeply divided into six ovate spreading 
cme nearly equal, (the three inner ones rather the 
smallest) obtuse, margins serrulate ; colour greenish, tinged 
with violet. Nectarium or crown three awl-shaped seg~ 
ments, green with a dark purple point, inserted into the 
faux of the tube o posite the internal lacinie. Anthers 
three, yellow ; sessile within the tube. Germen top-shaped, 
Superior. Style short, erect. Stigma capitate. _ 
he genus Bropiaa was first established by Sir James 
Dwarp Samira, in the tenth Volume of the Transactions 
of the Linnean Society, where he has recorded two y Aine 
the grandiflora and congesta, and distinguishes the first b 
the leaflets of the corona or nectary being undivided, whic 
‘re bifid in the second ; but the present species having. oe 
