PLATE CXCV. 



HYPOXIS OBLIQUA. 



Oblique-leaved Hypoxis. 



CLASS VI. ORDER L 

 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



Corolla fex-partita, perfiften.s, fupera. Cap 

 fula bafi anguftior. Spatba bivalvis. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTEK. 



Blossom fix-parted, remaining, above. Capfule 

 narrower at the bale. Sheath tvvo-valved. 

 See Hypoxis stellata. PI. CI. Vol. II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Hypoxis fcapo fubtrifloro, pilofo, longitudine 

 folionim; pedunculis flore triple longiori- 

 bus; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, oblique flexis, 

 glabris; radice fibrofa. 



Hypoxis with moftly three flowers on the ftem, 

 which is hairy, the length of the leaves ; 

 foot-ftalks three times the length of the 

 flower; leaves linearly lance-lliaped, ob- 

 liquely bent downward, fmooth ; root 

 fibrous. 



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 blodbm, to which the 



Chives are fixed. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, raagnilied. 



This fpecies of Hypoxis is from the Cape of Good Hope; and, we believe, folely in the pofleffion 

 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 charafter, we fliould judge the propagation would be from the root. 



ProfefTor Jacquin has given the Hypoxis Obliqua in his Icones Plantarum Rariorum, 2. t. 37I ; and 

 in his Supplement to the CoUedanea, 54 ; but, we muft fuppofe from a more vigorous fpecimen than 

 ours; as, the appearance of a woolly charafter, at the margin of tiie leaves, was not to be traced in 

 our plant, although eveiy otlier part is exaft. Wherefore, we have retained his name, though we 

 have ieje6\ed the latter part of his fpecific charadler, to introduce one, which we coiifider, of more 

 confequence, as oppofed to thofe with bulbous roots, this being fibrous. 



