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PLATE 



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LATA. 



Star-flowered Hypoxis. 



CLASS 



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ORDER 



I. 



HEXANDRIj4 MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Gluma bivalvis. 



Corolla moiiopetala, fuperaj limbus fexparti- 



tus, laclniis ovato oblongls, patentibus^ per- 

 fiftens. • 



Stamina, Filamenta fex, breviffiraa, capillaria. 

 Antherae oblongre, petalis brevlores, 



PiSTiLLUM. Germen inferum, turbinatum. Sty- 

 lus fiUformls, longitudine ftaminum. Stig- 

 ma obtufiufculum. 



Pericarpium. Capfula oblongiufcula, bafi an- 

 guftior, coronata corolla perfiftente, tri- 

 locularis, trivalvis, 



Semixa plurimaj fubrotimda. 



Empalement. Hufk of two valves. 

 Blossom one petals fuperlor; border of fix di- 



vifions, fegments oblong-egg-lliaped, and 



fpreadingj permanent. 

 Chives. Six very fliort hair-like threads. Tips 



oblong, fliorter than the petals, 

 roiNTAL. Seed-bud beneath, turban-fhape. 



Shaft thread-lhaped, the length of the 



chives. Summit bluntlfh. 

 Seed-vessel. Capfule rather oblong, fmaller at 



the bafe, crowned by the permanent blof- 



fom, three cells, three valves. 

 Seeds many^ roundifh. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Hypoxis fcapo unifloro; foliis fub-linearibus, 

 laxis, ftriatis^ petalis bafi maculatis. 



Hypoxis with but one bloflbm on the flowcr- 

 ftem^ leaves nearly linear, flexible, and 

 fcored^ the petals fpotted at the bafe. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE* 



1. The Chives and Pointal, cleared from the Bloflbm. 



2. A Chive. 



3. The Pointal. 



figured 



V • 1 - 1 ^*v^i**"5 njia pidUL lo ine tiue unaer wnicn we nave iiguiL.u. il, ««- 



by wh.cb It has been long known to raoft botanifts, at leafl by name ; yet have we great ones, whether 

 itought in any wife tobe confiderpH n« fnr>K 'vu,.^\ l ,, , , . .>i _..u^ i,.. r^^n ?«■ Sn 



flower, thought fo. and placed it to a genus he had named Fabricia. Certainly no one charaaer of 

 the genus Hypoxis, can be traced in the flower. The huilc is of one valve, the petals not even clofe 

 at the bafe, the threads flat, the fummlts three, and halbert-fliaped, the fliaft pillar-fhape and fliort, «fc. 



But, as Unon our nld nl**^ «/a Ar^ «^*. „l r_ .1 . , , rt 1 1'iT A f^U 



lames when long eftabliined, mis 

 )e placed, at any rate, to Fabricia, 

 .. The ftar-flowered Hypoxis is a 

 not often flower. It was according 



choofe 



remain 



*• c .% r^ .^ ^ i-"iii.o, native:* ui i\ew tiouani 



native of t!ie Cape of Good Hope, is rather a tender bulb, and does 



Cape bulb*, be 



fuppofi 



Mr, F. Mafl 



HI, lU Lilt Ji^tii */^-7 



I. The root fliould, lil^e 



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:,ft.if^„„ f 1 , ^ ' " "-»" 5, ctuu replanted in Oaober. It propagate? 



ZtlZT' 1 ^ ^."' '^ P^"°'"^ ^" ^'^S^* ^^""^y P^^t' ^^^^^ with a little loam. The drawing 

 was made ,n June, this prefent year, at the Hammerfmith nnrferv. 



