This species of Bignonia is well known in most collections of hothouse plants, and was first introduced to the Chelsea gardens by Mr. P. Miller, the then gardener, in 1759, and may be found described in his Dictionary; but, notwithstanding its frequency, few have seen its blossoms. Owing to the naked appearance of the stem, and its growing to so considerable a height before it flowers, and that but rarely, has rendered it a plant but of little consideration; though perhaps, from the great beauty of its blossoms, it deserves more attention. Being a native of the West Indies, it does not flourish without the assistance of tan heat; but will live in any situation of the hothouse; thriving best in a mixture of loam and peat, and is readily propagated by cuttings. It was from a plant in the select and valuable collection at Paddington, belonging to the Hon. Dowager Lady De Clifford (to whom the author, as well as all the cultivators and professors of the science, stand much indebted for the zeal and patronage which her ladyship has shewn, in her endeavours to promote it), that this figure was taken in July this present year 1798. [Illustration] PLATE XLIV. IXIA CINNAMOMEA. _Cinnamon-smelling Ixia._ CLASS III. ORDER I. _TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-petala, patens, æqualis. Stigmata tria, erectiusculo patula. BLOSSOM six petals, spreading, and equal. Summits three, nearly upright, spreading. See IXIA REFLEXA, Plate XIV. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis falcatis, crispis; floribus alternis, noctiflorens, cinnamomi odore. Ixia with scimitar-shaped leaves, waved at the edge; flowers alternate, blowing at night, and smelling of cinnamon. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Chives, attached to the tubular part of the Blossom, the border cut off, (magnified). 4. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified). Amongst this most extensive genus no species stands more distinct than this. The extreme sweetness and delicacy of its blossoms, which expand only by night, and close in the morning, give it a decided superiority over many of its congeners. Thunberg, who saw it at the Cape, has described it under the name it here bears; but till the year 1792 we had no knowledge of it, when it was first introduced by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, from the Cape of Good Hope; at whose nursery it flowered the following year; where it continues to blow annually, and whence this figure was taken. It is rather a tender bulb, small, and easily rotted; should therefore be placed in the warmest part of the greenhouse, and kept dry when out of flower; is rather difficult to increase, as each bulb seldom produces more than one offset, nor that always, and rarely seeds. [Illustration] PLATE XLV. IRIS LONGIFOLIA. _Long-leaved Iris._ CLASS III. ORDER I.