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like, dark green : the stem very slender, round, 

 a foot and half high: at the top the flowers are 

 collected in a spike sitting; close, to the stalk, each 

 having a thin, dry spathe, which covers the cap- 

 sule after the flower is fallen. The corolla is 

 pure white, and small. 



The seventh species has a bulb the size of a 

 hazel nut: the leaves three or four, many-nerved, 

 upright, smooth, half the length of the scape: 

 the scape round, smooth, upright, many-spiked, 

 from a foot to two feet in height : the branches 

 alternate, capillary, upright, a finger's length : 

 the flowers on the scape and branches in spikes, on 

 a flexuose rachis of a finger's length: thespathes 

 submembranaceous and awned. The flowers ap- 

 pear in May. 



It varies with the corollas yellow and violet, 

 of one colour. 



The eighth species has the bulb double the 

 size of a hazel nut : the leaves three, four, or 

 live, many-nerved, half the length of the scape: 

 the scape usually simple, seldom many-spiked, 

 round, upright, from a span to a foot high and 

 more: branches filiform, upright, or spreading 

 very much : flowers in terminating spikes, on a 

 flexuose rachis : spathes membranaceous, gray 

 at the base, brown at the tip, somewhat jagged : 

 the corolla, above the mouth of the tube, has 

 a dusky spot at the base of the border. 



According to Miller, the stalk is slender, stiff, 

 a foot and half long, naked to the top, where it 

 is terminated bv a round bunch of flowers, each 

 inclosed in an oblong spathe, which is perma- 

 nent, and splits open on one side : the flowers 

 are on short peduncles, deep yellow with a 

 dark-purple bottom. It flowers in May and 

 June. 



The ninth has the bulb a little larger than a 

 hazel nut : the leaves about five, reflex-subfal- 

 cate, many-nerved, from au inch to a finger's 

 length, half or one-third of the length of the 

 scape : the scape simple, round, or branched, 

 somewhat flatted, flexuose, upright, smooth, 

 from a hand to a span in height : the branches 

 spreading very much, naked, like the scape : 

 the bractcs gray at the base, ferruginous at the 

 tip, slightly toothed and jagged: the flower? 

 pointing one way, handsome, bell-shaped, with 

 a short tube, orange-coloured with a paler hya- 

 line or transparent mark above the mouth of the 

 tube ; seldom two, but most commonly five or 

 seven. It is one of the handsomest of the Ixias, 

 and like other sorts becomes handsomer and more 

 branched by cultivation. 



It varies with a short, simple, few-flowered 

 scape, and a dark spot above the windowed or 

 hyaline one, with a lofty, many-spiked, many- 

 flowered scape, and with bright red flowers. 



Culture. — These plants may be increased by 

 seeds or off-sets. 



The seeds of "such sorts as can be procured 

 should be sown in pots filled with light earth, 

 in the spring, plunging them in a mild hot-bed. 

 When the plants have attained some growth, 

 they should be removed into separate pots of the- 

 same earth, being placed under the protection, 

 of a frame till they have taken root. They should 

 be placed during the winter in a hot-bed frame. 

 They mav afterwards be removed into warm bor- 

 ders, being protected from frosts in the winter, 

 and a few retained in pots under the frame, or in 

 a dry stove. 



They are three or four years in flowering when 

 raised from seeds. 



The common way is therefore to increase them 

 by planting off-sets from the roots, which are 

 afforded in great plenty ; the proper season for 

 this is in the early spring, before the shooting 

 of the root, when the roots should be removed, 

 and the off- sets taken off and planted out. 



The old roots should not be removed ofteneu 

 than every three years. 



When the stems and leaves decay to the roots 

 in the borders in autumn, they should be cover- 

 ed over with tan a few inches thick, to protect 

 them from frost and the depredations of mice. 



The hardy sorts serve to adorn the borders in 

 the open ground, and the other tender sorts 

 among other potted green-house plants, that re- 

 quire protection in winter. 



IXORA, a genus containing plants of the 

 flowering shrubby exotic kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Tetrandria 

 Monogyrua, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Stellatce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a four- 

 parted perianthium, very small, upright, per- 

 manent: the corolla one-pctalled, funnel-form: 

 tube cylindric, very long, slender : border four- 

 parted, flat: divisions ovate : the stamina have 

 tour filaments, above the mouth of the corolla, 

 very short : anthers oblong: the pistillum is a 

 roundish, inferior, germ : style filiform, length 

 of the tube : stigma two-cleft : the pericarpium 

 a roundish berry, two-celled : the seeds by fours, 

 convex on one side, cornered on the other. 



The species cultivated are: 1. J. coccinea, 

 Scarlet Ixora ; 2. /. alba, White Ixora. 



The first has a woody stem, five or six feet 

 high, sending out many slender branches covered 

 with a brown bark : the leaves opposite, or three 

 or four at a joint: the flowers terminating in 

 clusters ; they have very long slender tubes, are 

 cut into four ovate segments, and are of a 

 deep red colour. It is a native of the Easi 

 Indies. 



