IXIOLIRION MONTANUM. 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
(Mountain Ixia-Lily.) 
Natural Order. 
AMARYLLIDACEJE. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Jeneric Character.-— Corm tunicate. Stalk brac- 
ite, with axillary or terminal peduncles. Perianth 
;ply-cleft, funnel-shaped, half-spreading. Filaments 
aight. Anthers versatile. Style straight. Capsules 
long, striped, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds 
merous, oval-oblong. 
iPEctFic Character. — Corm ovate, about an inch 
ig. Leaves stem-clasping, deeply-channelled, linear, 
acuminate. Peduncles axillary and terminal, one to 
three-flowered. Germen slender, oblong. Corolla 
divided to the bottom, the outer petals narrower and 
less coloured. Filaments alternately equal. Capsule 
oblong, striated, three- celled, three-valved. 
Synonymes — Amaryllis tatarica, A. montana f Al- 
strcemeria montana. 
The really fine plant here represented, has, under various names, been long 
lown to botanists. Ixiolirion, the genus of which it is a member, and, as far as is 
:t known, an only member, was founded, some years ago, by the Hon. and Rev. 
e Dean of Manchester, who, two or three years since, imported bulbs, through 
olonel Sheil, from Teheran, in Persia, whose hills is one of the stations it inhabits 
iturally. The bulbs in question first produced flowers in 1844, from which a 
*ure was given in the “ Botanical Register” for that year. 
It is a scarce, highly ornamental, hardy plant, will flourish in common garden 
il, and flowers in spring. Its bulbs are small, dark-coloured, and it produces 
liage sparingly, having few radical leaves ; those few are linear and are a consider- 
)le length. 
We met with the subject of our plate in May, flowering in a bed of bulbous 
tants which had been recently received from the same quarter, and through the 
ime gentleman (Colonel Sheil), as those already mentioned, by Messrs. Knight and 
erry, to whose attention we are indebted for the opportunity of preparing our 
rawing. 
Although the nature of I. montanum renders the open border its most appropriate 
ituation, it is not there alone it can be seen to advantage ; for, saving that it is 
linus the fragrance, and has not such fine foliage, it is in every respect equal, indeed 
! superior to a Hyacinth of a similar colour ; its free and elegant habit puts to shame 
mechanical air of that plant, and there is no doubt but it can be as easily brought 
