PLATE XLIV. 
IXIA CINNAMOMEA. 
Cinnamon-/melling Ixia. 
CLASS Ill ORDER I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC. CHARACTER. 
mits three, nearly upright, {preading. 
See Ixia REFLEXA, Plate XIV. 
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—Cororza 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata Brossom fix petals, {preading, and equal. Sum; 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ixia foliis falcatis, crifpis; floribus alternis, no&i- 
florens, cinnamomi odore. 
Ixia with fcimitar-fhaped leaves, waved at the 
edge; flowers alternate, blowing at night, 
and fmelling of cinnamon. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
= 1, The Empalement. 
“A 2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 
=, 3. The Chives, attached to the tubular part of the Bloffom, the border cut off, (magnified). 
4. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified). 
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_Amonesr this moft extenfive genus no fpecies ftands more diftin@ than this. The extreme fweetnefs 
and delicacy of its bloffoms, which expand only by night, and clofe in the morning, give it a decided 
: fuperiority over many of its congeners. Thunberg, who faw it at the Cape, has defcribed it under 
____ the name it here bears; but till the year 1792 we had no knowledge of it, when it was firft intro- 
duced by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope; at whofe nurfery 
- flowered the following year; where it continues to blow annually, and whence this figure was taken. 
__ It israther a tender bulb, fmall, and eafily rotted; ‘fhould therefore be placed in the warmeft part of 
____ the greenhoufe, and kept dry when out of flower; is rather difficult to increafe, as each bulb feldom 
ce : produces more than one offset, nor that always, and rarely feeds. 
