3. The Pointal, one of the summits detached and magnified.
This pretty little Ixia is quite new to our gardens, never having, as far as we can learn, been seen to flower before this year. It is the most delicate in shape and character of any we have as yet examined; and as we could not trace it as described in any author, we have given it the trivial name it here bears. The figure exhibits a large specimen of the whole plant, which is too weak to support itself, although the leaves are thick and stiff. Our drawing was made in the month of April, from a plant in the Clapham collection, where only it is to be found; the roots having been sent from the Cape of Good Hope in the autumn of the preceding year. It appears to flourish with the treatment Mr. Allen has given it, a dry situation, planted in very sandy peat. From the construction of the root, which has a hard smooth skin, we should be led to think its increase will not be very abundant.[Pg 410]
PLATE CCXLVI.
GERANIUM INCRASSATUM.
Fleshy-leaved Geranium.
CLASS XVI. ORDER IV.
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Monogyna. Stigmata quinque.
Fructus rostratus, penta-coccus.