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PLATE CLXXI. 
Hyer onwitsS LEANEARIS. 
Linear-leaved Hypoxis. | 
CLASS VR ORDER eI. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Buossom 6-parted, remaining, above. Capfule 
narrower at the bafe.. Sheath 2-valved. 
See Hypoxis sterxatra, Pl. CI. Vol. II. 
Corouta 6-partita, perfiftens, fupera. Capfula 
bafi anguftior, Spatha 2-valvis. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
_ Hypoxis foliis linearibus, glabris, canaliculatis, Hypoxis with linear leaves, fmooth, channelled, 
‘longiore fcapo unifloro; corolla intus au- _and longer than the flower-ftem, which 
rea, extus viridis. has but one flower; bloffom orange within, 
green without. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. Chives and Seed-bud. . 
2. Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified. 
3. The Seed-bud cut tranfverfely. 
Ar firft, we had fome doubts whether this plant fhould not be confidered as a variety of Hypoxis ftel- 
lata, to which it undoubtedly affines; but, upon due examination, find it a diftin& and new fpecies; 
as well, from the fhape and length of the leaves, as the fhape, charaéter, and colour of the bloffom, 
and figure of the root. * “ : 
Like Hypoxis ftellata it is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced, from thence, 
by Mefits. Lee and Kennedy, in the year 1792. For its treatment, &c. we muft refer our readers to 
the above fpecies, Pl. 101. Vol. 2. Our drawing was taken in March 1801 from a plant in the Hib- 
bertian Colleétion, Clapham Common. The flower of this plant, like many of the Ixias, &c. is 
expanded but a few hours each day, and that only, whilft under the influence of a ftrong morning - 
fun; as, if the weather is gloomy, it keeps clofe fhut, but does not fpeedily decay, for it will conti- 
hue to open, with equal brilliancy, for eight or ten days, ‘ 
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