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-Ixra Rusro-Cyanea. Rep-Biue Ixra. 
SHES dnb e 
’ Clafs and Order. 
‘TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
, Generic Charalter. | 
-- Cor. 6-partita, patens, zqualis. Stigmata 3, ereétiufeuloe —— 
patula. <a ee = 
Specific Characier and Synonyms. 
- YXIA rubro-cyanea foliis oblongo-lanceolatis villofis plicatis _ ji 
diftichis, fpatha trivalvi, corolla limbo patentiffimo, — 
— Facq. Ic. rar. 2. t. 285. Colled. 3. p. 268. | 
IXIA rubro-cyanea foliis oblongo-lanceolatis plicatis villofis,. — 
{capo foliis breviore, fpathis tubo brevioribus. Lznm. 
Sp. Pl. ed. 5. Willden, p. 198. . 
- The Ixia here reprefented was drawn laft Summer froma | 
- fpecimen unufually fine, which flowered with Mr. Cotvitt, — 
_ Nurferyman, King’s-Road, May 24, 1797; it appearsto be — 
- avery diftin& fpecies, not lefs diftinguifhed for the fingularity 
than the brilliancy of its colours, and is one of thofe recently 
imported from the Cape by way of Holland. : igs 
_- It is propagated in the fame way and fucceeds with the fame 
treatment as other Ixias; care muft be taken when it comes 
into flower that it be not too much expofed to the fun, for 
that will render its beautiés of very fhort duration. : 
Description.—Sialk from fix to nine inches high, round, 
villous, leafy; Leaves plaited, villous, very ftrongly fo below 
Spathe three-leaved, one large, forming a kind of fheath to 
the germen, the other two narrower and fomewhat fhorter 
each fide of it, all of them villous; Flowers ufually three or fou 
about the fize of thofe of the Gladiolus -fecuriger, or rather 
larger ; Tube about half an inch in length, dingy purples 
Brim divided into five fpreading fegments, upper part of @ 
fine ultramarine blue on the infide, the lower part the richeft 
crimfon, dazzling the eye of the beholder Filaments three, 
placed round the Piftil; Anthera: yellow above, purple belows 
Style projefting fomewhat beyond the Antherae ; Stigma trifid, 
each fegment expanding fo as to be nearly flat, and edged 
with ftrong hairs, _ . : 2S 
