530 



IXIA maculata; vm\ c^esia. 

 Green-spotted french-grey Lvia. 



TKIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 



Nat. ord. Ensat^. Lin, ord, nut. VL NtAis in ann. ofboU I. 219, 



Irides- Jussieu gen, &7 . Iride^- Brown pi'od,\,ZQ% 



IXIA, SpatktB distinctse, bivalves, uniHorac, plurimilm breviores co- 

 rollft. Cer, hypocrateriformis^ erects; tubo angusto, cylindraceo, recto» 

 fauce ssepiiks nulU; /tmAo regulari, 6-partito, rotatx>» laciniis oblongis, raris- 

 sime infern^ conniventibus, Stam. breviora limbo; ^L summo tubu inserta, 

 modd monadelpha: anth, erectae, iDtrorste. Stylus erectus, tubum liber^ 

 trajiciens; st^, 3, tubo exserta^ lineari-laminata, angusta, complicato- 

 canaliculata> replicata, saepissim^ indivisa* Caps, membranacea, ovato- 

 globosa, 3-loc., S-valv- loculamentis polyspermis, valvis medio septigeris; 

 sem, margin! intimse septorum utrinque annexa, globosa, Sinapeos minora; 

 teMtd sicc& membranaeed. 



Bulbo-tuber castaneo-camosunty soboliferum^ tunicis persistentibus fibny^o- 

 membranaceu aridis (rarb stupaceo-retextts) co^icentricis tectunif omni anno 

 post enixutn nmile Jloridum emoriens, ut in Croco. Folia ensata, coUa- 

 terali'di&tieha, nervosa^ plana, infeme equitanti-complexa, vaginA radicaH* 

 Caulis culmaceuSf spic^ altemd muUiflorA laxd, rarimmh fiore solitario^ 

 terminatus, nunc ramosus, foliis interioribus 2 scspiiU vagiuatus, Infloresc, 

 omni colore ladens, CoroluL teneriuscula, limbo sesquiunciam diametro rarb 

 excedens. 



1, maculata, corollae tubo capillar], timbo explanatobasi maculate; stigmati- 

 bus ad tubum usque distinctis* infr^ antheraruih bases replicatis* 



Ixia maculata. Lin, syst. veg, ed. 14. 85. 7%unb. ix, 19. efu$d, prod, 10* 

 Burm, prod, cap, 1* Sckneevogt ic. G, 25. Jacq, hort, schcenb, 1, 9* I. 

 19—23. Andrews's reposit, 106, 256. Nob, in curtis^a magaz. 540, 

 789, 1285. Redouts liliac, 137. Willd. sp, pL 1. 205. Hort. Kew. erf. 

 2. 1- 88. 



Ixia viridiflora. Redout^ liliac, t, 476. 



Ixia Bpectabilis. Sali&b, prod, 33. n* 10. 



Ixia amcenft^ SaHsb, prod, 35. n. 12. 



Ixia c£4>itata var. ovata. Andrews*8 reposit, 23. 



Ixia capitata var. flore albo, fundo nigro. Andrett:s*s reposit. 159. 



Ixia spicata var. viridi-nigra- Andrews's reposit. 20. 



Ixia maculata viridis. Usteri ann, bot. st, 5. 58. 



Ixia abbreviata* Houitugnpjl. sgst, II- 48. /. 78. 



Ixia, as above defined, does not comprize more than 

 sixteen recorded species, none of which have been observed 

 beyond the territory of the Colony at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and the adjoining districts. The 59 species con- 

 founded under this head in the '^ Enumeratio" of Vahl, 

 are respectively reducible to Galaxia, Mor^a, Tricho- 



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