Although, we have given to this species of Malpighia, the specific name under which it has been introduced; yet, there is much doubt, whether it is not the Verbascifolium of Linnæus; or indeed if they are not both the same plant, named from different specimens. Our species makes a very handsome hothouse plant, growing to the height of five, or six feet, before it flowers. It is a native of Jamaica, and most of the adjacent islands, and was introduced by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy about the year 1792. From the extreme tenderness of the young leaves, and shoots, it must be kept in a strong growing pine heat during the winter months; otherwise, they are subject to damp off. It is raised by cuttings, and seems to delight in a rich soil. The figure was made from a specimen communicated by the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Courtenay, in whose most superb collection at Powderham Castle, near Exeter, it flowered, for the first time in England, in the month of September 1798. [Illustration] PLATE L. IXIA CAPITATA. _Var: flore aurantio._ _Bunch-flowering Ixia. Var: Blossom gold colour._ 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, and spreading. See Plate XIV. IXIA REFLEXA. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis radicalibus, ensiformibus; floribus capitatis, confertis, aurantiis, petalis basi obscuris. Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and sword-shaped; blossoms grow in a close bunch, gold coloured, and the petals dark at the base. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified). This variety of Ixia capitata was introduced at the same time as the Ixia bulbifera, flore luteo, viz. in 1784, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, and requires the same treatment. It flowers the latter end of May, or beginning of June; propagating itself abundantly by the root, which produces annually numerous young bulbs. [Illustration] PLATE LI. XERANTHEMUM SPECIOCISSIMUM. _Largest-flowering Everlasting Flower._ CLASS XIX. ORDER II. _SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA._ Tips united. Superfluous Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Communis imbricatus; squamis lanceolatis, quarum intimæ disco longiores, membranaceæ, nitidæ, radium constituentes. COROLLA. Composita inæqualis; corollulæ hermaphroditæ plurimæ, tubulosæ in disco. Femineæ pauciores, tubulatæ, in ambitu. _Propria_ hermaphroditis infundibuliformis, calyce longe brevior; limbo quinquefido, patulo. _Femineis_ tubulosa, longitudine hermaphroditi, quinquefida, minus æqualis.