PLATE XLIV. 



I X I A CINNAMOMEA. 



Cinnamon-fmeUing Ixia. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-petala, patens, requalis. Stigmata 

 tria, ere&iufculo patula. 



Blossom iix petals, fpreading, and equal. Sum- 

 mits three, nearly upright, fpreading. 



See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis falcatis, crilpis; floribus alternis, nofti- 

 florens, cinnamomi odoie. 



Ixia with fcimitar-fhaped leaves, waved at the 

 edge; flowers alternate, blowing at night, 

 and fmellinsr of cinnamon. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 



3. The Chives, attached to the tubular part of the Blofibm, the border cut off, (magnified). 



4. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified). 



Amongst this moft extenfive genus no fpecies ftands more diftinci than this. The extreme fweetnefs 

 and delicacy of its blolTbms, which expand only by night, and clofe in the morning, give it a decided 

 fuperiority over many of its congeners. Thunbcrg, who faw it at the Cape, has defcribed it under 

 the name it here bears; but till the year 1"9'2 we had no knowledge of it, when it was firft intro- 

 duced by MefTrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammcrfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope; at whole nurfery 

 it flowered the following year; where it continues to blow annually, and whence this figure was taken. 

 It is rather a tender bulb, fmall, and eafily rotted; fliould 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 feldoni 

 produces more than one offset, nor that always, and rarely feeds. 



