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TftlAMORiA LinN'AI* 
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T H I S I received from China : it is alfo a native of the 
if they meant to figure it, who gave the firft accounts ot a FeoT r''"'"' ' 
were very ill defigners. This deferves all the praife theirs had for eleir 
a fovereign beauty in our bell collcdtions. g<>nce ; and will be 
The Plant is feven foot high : the Stalk is thick, firm, iointed and un A ■ , ■ . 
Tk- Leaves are long and flaggy ■ of a frefh preen • nn -1 r '^nmfon. 
furround the Stalk at their bafe ; and arc there whkilli ivitldn. ^ 
The Mowers fpread from the fummit in a broad loofc clufter extremelv Tin ’ i 
not lefs lingular: no eye could mifs admiring them at a diftance K = ’ 
charmed on a nearer view. Each has fix Petals ; thefc are ninced in rwn r. ■ ° ^ l 
each. Thofe of the outer fer|es are larger, but thofe of the inner are moreficMv pamulT 
LiNNAius calls the fix Petals of the IxiA equal: but this Plant manifeftly Ihcws thei 'r7 
The colours are a delicate yellow, and a full crimfon, and they are thus difiofej unln 
the Mover :1 he diree outer Petals are yellow from their bafe to three fourths of their 
length, and m all that part they arc fpotted. like the tyger's Ikm, with crimf .n ; on thl 
Thi is r T '’'^^'Rhout the whole breadih. 
This IS the colouring o, t.ie inner part of thefe Petals ; their outfide is yellow, and r-e 
crimfon fpots are- only carried lightly along the edges. The three inner Petals are ni -re 
uniformly marked; they are yellow throughout; and are all over fpotted with this ele- 
.gant crimfon. * 
Three Filaments rife from the bafe of the Flower with yellow buttons, themfri.-cs of a 
fine crimfon ; and they furround a finglc flyle, whitilh, and divided into three part- if 
t le head, or ftigma. The Rudiment of the Seed-vcflil Hands under the Flower, ana is 
triangularj and fllled with many feeds. 
The three Filaments very diflinaly fi.ew that the Plant belongs to the Triandri i, the 
liir c afs in the Sexual Syftem : and none can be at a lofs to know that Cials for ever 
who looks into this Flow-er. 
Its natural habitation is the defart, fun- burnt fand of the Indirs ; and it thrives no where 
o well as m the neighbourhood of the fea : not cn the lliorc, but at half a mile, or a 
ei ancc. Its tuberous roots lie deep beneath the furtace, twelve or fifteen inches, 
It piop^gatcs itfclf fo laft, that there are leagues of ground covered with it. 
Our gardeners fliould more regard this particularity of certain Plants that love fonic in- 
^ of the fea, though they do not grow upon the abfolutc lliore. W'c have fome Trc-- 
1 and other English Herbs, which have the fame Qiiality; never being found on the 
fea n influence of fea-watcr reaches a great way. A liiile 
^ a t in the moiiid wherein thefc Plants are propag:itcd, would anfv.cr the purnofe; a:Kl 
y would thrive much better, bccaufc their nourilhniciit would be more n.itur.il. 
Ixia foliis enfitormibur, jiaiiicula dichorom.ij fioribus {'cdiincul.uis. 
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