The plant here figured, we consider as a distinct species from the J. simplicifolium of Forster, which he describes as a native of the Friendly Isles, in the South Seas; and likewise from the J. oblongum of Burman, which is given (but with a query) as a synonim to the J. simplicifolium of the former Author by Willdenow, in his Sp. Plant. p. 38, Part I. In the year 1792, the seeds of this plant were received by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, with the Bignonia pandorana, and many others, communicated by Colonel Paterson, then commanding a detachment stationed for a time on Norfolk Island, where it is native. To the green-house it is a considerable acquisition, either for a climber, or otherwise, as it is rarely without blossoms from July, till the end of November; being rather more tender than many of its congeners, which are in general destined to that station; it should be placed as nigh the flue, in as dry and airy a part of it as possible. A light, sandy peat soil, without mixture, is the most congenial to its growth; and it is increased by cuttings, made in the month of March, put, from 12 to 20, according to the size of the pot, under a small bell-glass, in the before-named earth, and plunged either in the bark-bed of the hot-house, or in the heat of a common hot-bed.[Pg 515]
PLATE 127
PLATE CXXVIII.
IXIA POLYSTACHIA. Var. incarnata.
Many-spiked Ixia. Var. flesh-colour.
CLASS III. ORDER I.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Corolla 6-petala, patens, æqualis.