This species of Trumpet Flower, is a native of Norfolk Island in the Pacific Ocean, lying in 29 deg. 2 min. south lat.; therefore, must be kept with us as a greenhouse plant; and, as a creeper, may be placed to twine round the pillars, or to cover trellis work; being of quick growth (if planted in peat earth,) and flowering abundantly from the month of March, ’till June. It is easily increased by cuttings, made in the spring, or by suckers, which it frequently produces from the root. The plant from which our drawing was made, flowered (and we believe for the first time in England) in 1798, in the collection of J. Vere, Esq. Kensington Gore. Naturalists, when in detailing the history of the various articles passing under their review, should receive with caution, any matter which seems tending to the marvellous; but for the authenticity of the authority, from whence we are furnished with the account of the singularly pestiferous character of this plant, we can with confidence pledge ourselves. Colonel Paterson, now commanding at Port Jackson, New Holland, sent the seeds from Norfolk Island, when he was stationed there, to Messrs. Lee and Kennedy Hammersmith, who first raised it, in the year 1793. The N. I. Trumpet Flower is, in its native soil, a deciduous plant; upon the return of the season, in which the young tendrils begin to shoot, and the leaves begin to appear; within fifteen, or twenty days, the whole plant is entirely covered with a white downy insect, of the genus Aphis, something similar to our blight; which, in a very short time from their first appearance on this plant, become so completely dispersed over every vegetable production, that scarce a green leaf is to be seen through the whole extent of the island. So great a plague was this insect thought to be, from its effects on vegetation, by those who were sent to colonize the island, that it was considered as one of the principal reasons for abandoning the settlement. [Illustration] PLATE LXXXVII. IXIA ARISTATA. _Var. atropurpurea._ _Ragged-sheathed Ixia. Var. dark purple._ CLASS III. ORDER I. _TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-partita, patens, æqualis. Stigmata tria, erectiusculo-patula. BLOSSOM six divisions, spreading, and equal. Summits three, nearly upright and spreading. See Pl. XIV. Vol. I. Ixia reflexa. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis falcatis, glabris, amplexicaulibus; scapo sub-biflora; spathis laceris. Ixia with scimitar-shaped leaves, smooth and embracing the stem; flower-stem mostly with two flowers; sheaths appearing torn. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The sheath. 2. A Flower cut open. 3. The Pointal, complete.