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AUTUMN-BLOOMING. 



0. monopJiylla, Mauritiana, lobata, crenata, ambigua, Bra- 

 ziliensis, variabilis, tubiflora, sulphured, purpurata, rostrata, 

 tricolor, dentata, fallax, furcata, caprina. 



WINTER AND SPRING BLOOMING. 



0. miniata, compressa, bipunctata, multiflora, cuprea, incar- 

 nata, luteola, polyphylla, punctata, disticha. 



SUMMER-BLOOMING. 



(9. macropliylla, caprina, cuneata, elongata, pentaphylla, 

 fldbellifolia. 



THE IXIA. 



These bulbs are all natives of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 The family formerly included many other bulbs which have 

 been separated from it. At present, the genus consists of 

 about thirty species, which are distinguished from Sparaxis 

 by not having a jagged sheath, " from Babiana by having 

 a dry seed-pod instead of a berry, and from Tritonia by 

 having the stamens inserted at the bottom of the petals 

 instead of in the tube of the flower." The bulbs are small, 

 and look so much alike, that care must be taken to distin- 



