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PLATE. eXcy. 
HYPOXIS OBLIQUA.. 
| Oblique-leaved Hypoxis. | 
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CLASS. VI. - ORDER I. | 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
_ Cororta fex-partita, perfiftens, fupera. Cap- 
fala bafi anguftior. Spatha bivalvis. 
Bossom fix-parted, remaining, above. Capfule 
narrower at the bafe. Sheath two-valved. 
See Hypoxis stetzuatTa. PI. Cl, Vol. Il. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hypoxis fcapo fubtrifloro, pilofo, longitudine Hypoxis with moftly three flowers on the ftem, 
ohorum; pedunculis flore triplo longiori- which is hairy, the length of the leaves; 
bus; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, oblique flexis, foot-ftalks three times the length of the 
glabris; radice fibrofa. flower; leaves linearly Jance-fhaped, ob- 
liquely bent downward, fmooth; root 
| fibrous. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Petal of the Bloffom, with its Chive, as attached to its bafe. 
2. The Seed-bud, on its foot-ftalk, with a part of the tube of the bloffom, to which the 
Chives are fixed, 
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified. 
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Tats fpecies of Hypoxis is from the Cape of Good Hope; and, we believe, folely in the poffeffion 
of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham; from whofe collection our drawing was made, in June, this year, 1801. 
It appears to be a hardy green-houfe plant; but, is certainly more curious than handfome, and, from 
its general charaéter, we fhould judge the propagation would be from the root. 
Profeffor Jacquin has given the Hypoxis Obliqua in his Icones Plantarum Rariorum, 2. t. 371; and 
in his Supplement to the Colle@anea, 54; but, we mutt fuppofe from a more vigorous fpecimen than 
ours; as, the appearance of a woolly charaéter, at the margin of the leaves, was not to be traced in 
our plant, although every other part is exaét. Wherefore, we have retained his name, though we 
have rejected the latter part of his {pecific chara@ter, to introduce one, which we confider, of more 
confequence, as oppofed to thofe with bulbous roots, this being fibrous. ig 
