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they muft be placed under a frame to fcreen them 
from fro d ; and in the fpring molt of the plants may 
be turned out of the pots and planted in a warm 
border, where they will abide through the common 
winters very well, but in fevere frofts they are often 
killed, unlefs they are covered with tan, or other 
covering to keep out the froft; therefore a few of the 
plants may be kept inkpots, and fheitered under a 
frame in winter. 
The ftalks and leaves of this plant decay to the root 
in autumn, fo that if the furface of the ground about 
the roots is covered two or three inches thick with 
tan, it will fee u re them from the danger of froft •, and 
in the fpring, before the roots Ihoot, will be the beft 
time to remove and part the roots •, but this fhould 
not be done oftener than every third year, for when 
they are often parted they will be weak, and will not 
dower fo well. 
The fecond fort grows naturally at the Cape of Good 
Hope ; this is a low plant, which rarely rifes more 
than three or four inches high; the leaves are narrow 
and veined, the flowers are fmall, growing in a 
downy head on the top of the ftalk, but they make 
little appearance, fo are only kept for the fake of 
variety. 
The third fort I raifed from feeds, which were fent 
me from the Cape of Good Hope. This hath a round 
bulbous root a little comprened, covered with a red 
fkin, from which arife five or fix fword-fhaped leaves 
about three or four inches long, hairy, and with fe- 
veral longitutinal furrows ; thefe embrace each other 
at their bale, but fpread afunder at the top •, between 
thefe come out the flower-ftalk, which rifes fix or 
eight inches high, is naked to the top, and terminated 
by a duller of flowers, each having a fpatha or hood, 
which dries and is permanent ; the flowers are of a 
deep blue colour, and appear in May ; thefe are fuc- 
ceeded by roundilh three-cornered feed-veffels with 
three cells, filled with roundilh. feeds which ripen in 
July, then the leaves and ftalks decay. 
The fourth fort was raifed from feeds in the Chelfea 
garden, which came with thofe of the former fort. 
This hath a fmall round bulbous root, from which 
arife four or five narrow, long, fword-fhaped leaves, 
fix or feven inches long ; between thefe come out a 
very (lender round ftalk about ten inches long, from 
the fide of which there comes out one or two clullers 
of flowers, Handing upon fhort foot-flalks, and at the 
top of the ftalk the flowers grow in a loofe 'fpike ; 
they' are of a pure white, and fhaped like thofe of the 
other fpecies. Thefe appear in May, and the feeds 
ripen in July. 
The feeds of the fifth fort were fent me from the Cape 
of Good Hope ; this has an oval bulbous root which 
is a little corrrpreffed, from which come up three or 
four narrow, thin, fword-fhaped leaves, near a foot 
long •, the flower-ftalk rifes a little above the leaves, 
it is very (lender, naked, and terminated by a round 
>rlufter of flowers, each having a fpatha or hood ; they 
are compofed of fix pretty large oblong petals which 
are concave, and of a deep yellow colour, each 
having a large black fpot at the bafe. This flowers 
early in May, and the feeds ripen the latter end of 
Jftne. 
The fixth fort hath narrow fpear-fhaped leaves about 
fix or (even inches long ; the ftalk rifes near a foot 
and a half high, garmfhed with one leaf at each of 
the lower joints, of the fame fhape with the other, 
fbut fmaller •, thefe embrace the ftalk with their bafe, 
and (land erect ; the upper part of the ftalk is adorned 
■with flowers, compofed of fix oblong oval petals of a 
fulphur colour, which are placed alternate on the ftalk, 
which is bent at each joint where the flowers (land ; 
the flowers have three fhort (lamina which are joined 
at their bafe, terminated by long, flat, ereft fummits ; 
xhe gerhnen is fituated under the flower, fupporting a 
long (lender ftyle, crowned by a trifid ftigma ; the 
german afterward becomes a roundifh capfule with 
three cells, filled with roundilh fmall feeds. The 
(talks at each of the lower joints thruft cut fmall 
bulbs, which, if planted, will grow and product 
• flowers. 
The feventh forthath (horterand broader leaves than 
the former ; the ftalk is (lender and furrowed, and at 
each of the lower joints is garnilhed with one leaf of 
the fame ihape, embracing the ftalk with their bafe * 
the flowers come out toward the top of the ftalk, at 
two or three inches di (lance, each ftalk fupporting 
two or three fulphur-coloured flowers, which are each 
compofed of fix fpear-fhaped petals an inch and a 
half long, equal in their iize and regular in pofition ; 
they have a (hort permanent empalement, cut into 
two long and two (hotter acute fegments ; thefe are 
fucceeded by round capfules with three cells, filled 
with round feeds. This fort flowers in March, and 
the feeds ripen about two months after. 
1 he eighth fort hath very fmall, round, bulbous roots, 
from which arife three or four long, (lender, Grafs- 
like leaves, of a dark green colour; between thefe 
come out the ftalk, which is very (lender and round, 
riling a foot and a half high ; at the top the flowers 
are collected in a fpike fitting clofe to the ftalk, each 
having a thin, dry, permanent fpatha or (heath, which 
covers the capfule after the flower is fallen. Tiie flov/- 
ers are of a pure white, and (haped like thofe of the 
other fpecies, but are (mailer; they are fucceeded by 
(mall round feed-veffels with three cells, each con- 
taining two or three round feeds. It flowers the latter 
end or May, and the feeds ripen in July. 
1 here are feme other varieties of this genus, which 
have flowered in the Chelfea garden, differing only 
in the colour of their flowers, fo are not fuppofed to 
be diftmdl fpecies ; one of which is purple on the out- 
flde, and wmte within ; another has white flowers, 
with a blue ftripe on the outfide of each petal, and a 
third has white flowers with yellow bottoms. Thefe 
have already flowered in the Chelfea garden, where 
there are many more, which have been fince raifed 
from feeds, whofe flowers have not as yet appeared ; 
and at the Cape of Good Hope, where thefe plants 
grow naturally, there are more than thirty varieties 
mentioned in a catalogue of Dr. Herman’s. The roots 
of moft, if not all thefe forts, are frequently eaten by 
the inhabitants at the Cape of Good Hope, who 
greatly efteem them. 
All the forts multiply very fall by offsets, fo that 
when once obtained, there will be no occafion to raife 
them from feeds ; for the roots put out offsets in great 
plenty, moft of which will floveerthe following feafon, 
whereas thofe from feeds are three or four years be- 
fore they flower. Thefe plants will not live through 
the winter in the full ground in England, fo fhould be 
planted in fmall pots filled with light earth, and placed 
under a frame in winter, where they rpay be protedled 
from froft, but in mild weather fhould enjoy the free 
air; but during the winter they muft be guarded from 
mice, who are very fond of thefe roots, and if not 
prevented will devour them. 
IXORA. Lin. Gen. 13 1. Jafminum. Burman. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a fmall 'permanent emp dement cut into four feg- 
ments ; the flower has one funnel-fhaped petal, having a 
flender tube , cut into flour fegments at the top. It hath 
feur floort ft amina fituated in the divificns of the petal , ter- 
minated by oblong fummits, and a rcufidifh germen fituated 
at the bottom of the involucrum, fupporting a fender ftyle 
the length of the tube , crowned by a bifid, ftigma ; the mer- 
men afterward becomes a berry with two cells , containing 
two convex angular feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft order of 
Linnaeus’s fourth clafs, intitled Tetrandria Monogy- 
nia, the flowers having four ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Ixora ( Coccinea ) foliis ovatis -femiamplexicaulibus, 
ftoribus fafciculatis. Fior. Zeyl. 22. Ixora with oval 
haves half embracing the ftalks , and flowers growing in 
bunches. Jafminum Xndicum lauri folio, inodorum 
umbellatunV ftoribus coccineis. Pluk. Phyt. tab. 50. 
f. 2. ' 
a. Ixora 
