PLATE CCXXXVI. 



HYPOXIS STELL ATA. Var. Meallo. 



Star-flowered Hypoxis. irkUe Var. 



CLASS VL ORDER L 

 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fexpanita, perfiftens, fupera. Cap- 

 fula bafi anguftior. Spatha 2-valvis. 



Blossom fixparted, remaining, above. Capfule 

 narrower at the bafe. Siieath two valves. 

 See Hypoxis Jiellata, P/. 101. Fol. II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Hypoxis fcapo unifloro ; foliis fublinearibus, 

 laxis, ftriatis; petalis bafi maculatis; co- 

 rolla intus alba. 



Hj'poxis with but one bloflbm on die flower- 

 ftem ; leaves nearly liiicar.flexible and fcored; 

 the petals Ipotted at the bafe; blollbm white 

 within. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A Petal of the Bloflom, fhewn from the outfide. 



2. The Chives and Pointal. 



3. One of the Chives. 



4. The Pointal, cleared of the chives. 



This moft brilliant variety of Hypoxis ftellata, is as old an inhabitant of our gardens as the other Var. 

 figured in the 2d Vol. of the Repofitory, PI. 101 ; it was likewife introduced by Mr. F. Malfon. The 

 roots of this plant are rather more tender, or delicate, than thofe of the yellow variety; which makes 

 it fcarcer, and much lefs known. The nurfery, Hammerfmith, is the only place at which we have 

 feen it; and, we believe, they have it not in Holland. The root from which our figure was taken, 

 had been imported, from the Cape, in 1801. It flowers in April, and increafes by the root; Ihould 

 be planted in very light fandy peat earth, and removed from the pot foon after the flowers are 

 decayed. 



