Volume 4 — PLATE CCXXXVI. HYPOXIS STELLATA. Var. flore albo. Star-flowered Hypoxis. White Var.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla sexpartita, persistens, supera. Capsula basi angustior. Spatha 2-valvis.

Blossom sixparted, remaining, above. Capsule narrower at the base. Sheath two valves.

See Hypoxis stellata. Pl. 101. Vol. II.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Hypoxis scapo unifloro; foliis sublinearibus, laxis, striatis; petalis basi maculatis; corolla intus alba.

Hypoxis with but one blossom on the flower-stem; leaves nearly linear, flexible and scored; the petals spotted at the base; blossom white within.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Petal of the Blossom, shewn from the outside.

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.