Coen. . 
_Ixta TricoLor. Turee-Corouren Ixia. 
aes seaesieaeseaieateae aaa ska slat se ake 
Clafs and Order. 
_ Tatanpria Monocynta. 
Generic Charader, 
Cor, 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. 
ae .... Spec Cigar Pe: 
IXIA ¢ricolor foliis enfiformibus ere@is, feapo flexuofo fub-— 
ath. 
trifloro, {pathis fufco maculatis, tenuiffime fulcato plicatis. 
with the beautiful appearance of a flower, as with that of the 
_ prefent Ixia 
~ Jours at one 
We do not remember ever: to have been. fo forcibly ftruck 
forts, the eye would be fixed by this alone. 
| taller growth than the Ixia crocata, the flalk 
rifing tothe heightof aboutafoot and a half, the lower half of itis — 
curioufly enveloped by the foliage, ufually fimple, round, fmooth, 
crooked, fupporting on its fummit two or three flowers, fome-’ 
times more, leaves {word-fhaped, perfeély fmooth, extendingto — 
the lowermoft flower; flowers large, feffile, enclofed before | 
they expand in a bivalve membranous fheath, which, on its 
lower part particularly, is deeply grooved or plaited, and the 
whole of it is.finely {potted ; to fee'the fingularity and beauty 
‘of this part, it is neceflary to ufe a fmall magnifier: the — 
flowers are fuperbly brilliant, the bafe of each petal is fine 
yellow, the middle is marked with a large arrow-{haped fpot 
of a dark-purple hue, with the appearance of velvet, a line of 
which runs down through the yellow and terminates before it 
reaches the bottom of the petal, the remainder of the petal is” 
of a colour difficult to deferibe (a kind of bright orange) the 
anthera are yellow, the ftigma trifid, each fegment purplifh 
and bifid. Though new to this country, this plant has bee 
known fome years to the Dutch, we find it in their catalogues 
under the name of Ixia feellata tricolor ; no doubt they received 
it from the Cape. This fpecies is propagated with the fame 
eale that moft of the Ixias are, and requires the fame manage-_ 
ment,—to be planted in a pot of bog-earth and fecured fr 
froft. It has ripened feeds with me at Brompton; one « ap 
contained ten, ee 
