2. The Chives and Pointal.
3. One of the Chives.
4. The Pointal, cleared of the chives.
This most brilliant variety of Hypoxis stellata, is as old an inhabitant of our gardens as the other Var. figured in the 2d Vol. of the Repository, Pl. 101; it was likewise introduced by Mr. F. Masson. The roots of this plant are rather more tender, or delicate, than those of the yellow variety; which makes it scarcer, and much less known. The nursery, Hammersmith, is the only place at which we have seen 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 increases by the root; should be planted in very light sandy peat earth, and removed from the pot soon after the flowers are decayed.[Pg 374]
PLATE CCXXXVII.
CYTISUS TOMENTOSUS.
Downy-leaved Cytisus.
CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads in two sets. Ten Chives.
GENERIC CHARACTER.