PLATE CI. 



HYPOXIS STELLATA. 



Star -flowered Hypoxis. 



CLASS VI. ORDER I. 

 HEXANDRIJ MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC 



Calyx. Gluma bivalvis. 



Corolla monopetala, fupera; limbus fexparti- 

 tus, laciniis ovato oblongis, patentibus; per- 

 fiftens. 



Stamina. Filamenta fex, breviflima, capillaria. 

 Antherse oblongs, petalis breviores. 



Pistillum. Germen inferum, turbinatum. Sty- 

 lus filiformis, longitudine ftaminum. Stig- 

 ma obtufiufculum. 



Pericarpium. Capfula oblongiufcula, bafi an- 

 guffior, coronata corolla perfiliente, tri- 

 locularis, trivalvis. 



Semina plurima, fubrotunda. 



SPECIFIC 



Hypoxis fcapo unifloro; foliis fub-linearibus, 

 laxis, ftriatis; petalis bafi maculatis. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. Hulk of two valves. 



Blossom one petal, fuperior; border of fix di- 



vifions, fegments oblong-egg fhaped, and 



fpreading; permanent. 

 Chives. Six very fhort hair-like threads. Tips 



oblong, fhorter than the petals. 

 Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, turban-fhape. 



Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the 



chives. Summit bluntifh. 

 Seed-vessel. Capfule rather oblong, fmaller at 



the bafe, crowned by the permanent blof- 



fom, three cells, three valves. 

 Seeds many, roundifh. 



CHARACTER. 



Hypoxis with but one bloflbm on the flower- 

 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. 



Though we have little doubt in referring this plant to the title under which we have figured it, and 

 by which it has been long known to moft botanifts, at leaft by name; yet have we great ones, whether 

 it ought in any wife to be confidered as fuch. Thunberg, perhaps the only botanift, who has feen it in 

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

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

 at the bafe, the threads flat, the fummits three, and halbert-fhaped, the lhaft pillar-fhape and fliort, &c. 

 But, as upon our old plea, we do not choofe to change generic names when long eftablilhed, this 

 plant, for us, mud ftill remain an Hypoxis; tho'it could not now be placed, at any rate, to Fabricia, 

 as that title is given to a family of plants, natives of New Holland. The ftar-flowered Hypoxis is a 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope, is rather a tender bulb, and does not often flower. It was according 

 to the Kew Catalogue firft introduced to the Royal Gardens bv Mr. F. Maflbn, in the year 1/88; but 

 as the time of flowering is not mentioned, we fuppofe it did not flower there. The root fhould, like 

 other Cape bulbs, be removed from the pot after flowering, and replanted in October. It propagates 

 itfelf pretty freely by offsets, if planted in light fandy peat, mixed with a little loam. The drawing 

 was made in June, this prefent year, at the Hammerfmith nurfery. 



