To Mr. Eldred Elfzelius, a native of Sweden, we are indebted for this species of Cratæva; by whom it was brought to Great Britain, on his return from Sierra Leone, in the year 1795. As a native of that burning clime, it will not endure our winters, without the protection of the hothouse; to which, as a climber, it is a considerable ornament, both in foliage, and flower; the flowers coming, in succession, from June, till August; perhaps, much later, as we believe, this is the first time its blossoms have been produced in England. The propagation is extremely easy, by cuttings; but, to give the plant sufficient vigour for flowering, it must be planted in a border, prepared of old rotten dung, sandy peat, and loam, of each, equal parts; separated from the tan-bed by a partition of boards, sufficiently strong to support the earth, upon the removal of the tan. This method of treating many of the tropical climbers, and even the common Caper, though a native of the south of Europe, has been found necessary to their production of flowers in this country. Our figure was taken from a plant, treated in the above manner, in the Stepney collection; from whence, through the kind indulgence of the truly urbanic, and indefatigable proprietor, T. Evans, Esq. we are in hopes of gratifying our botanical friends, with the figures of a number of plants, new to this country; and of which he is, at present, the sole possessor. [Illustration] PLATE CLXXVII. IXIA PUNCTATA. _Dotted flowered Ixia._ CLASS III. ORDER I. _TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-partita, patens, æqualis. STIGMATA 3, erectiusculo-patula. BLOSSOM 6 divisions, spreading, equal. SUMMITS three, nearly upright, spreading. See Ixia reflexa, Pl. XIV. Vol I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis linearibus, scapo vaginantibus; scapus geniculatus, subtriflorus; laciniis corollæ obovatis, lineato-punctatis, purpureis. Ixia with linear leaves sheathing the stem; flower-stem jointed, mostly three flowered; segments of the blossom inversely egg-shaped, dotted in lines, and purple. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The two valves of the sheath. 2. A Blossom cut open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; a division of one of the summits magnified. This curious Ixia was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1800, by G. Hibbert, Esq. and is, we believe, in the possession of no other in this kingdom. It is a tender bulb, flowering about April, or May, and appears, either by the bulb, or seed, to be slow of increase. The bulb, from which our figure was taken, was planted in light, sandy peat earth. [Illustration] PLATE CLXXVIII. FERRARIA PAVONIA. _Mexican Ferraria._ CLASS XVI. ORDER I. _MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA._ Threads united. Three Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. Schreb. _Gen. Plant. V. II. p. 451._ CALYX. Spathæ binæ, alternæ, carinatæ, involutæ, unifloræ.