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Petala 6. Stylus declinatus. Stigma infandibuliforme hians; 
- Capf. infera polyfperma. <4 ee ee 
Specific Charailer and Synonyms. 
ARISTEA cyanea. Ait. Kew. v, 1. p. 67. 
IXIA africana floribus capitatis, {pathis laceris. Linu. Sp. PL. 
ed.§. Penis ss | | 
MORAA jue focibus capitatis fpathis laceris. Murr. 
- -Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. P. 93. 
IXIA foliis ad radicem nervofis gramineis, floribus ac fru@u 
convolutis. Burm, Afric. 191. t. 70. f. 2. 
BERMUDIANA capenfis, capitulis lanuginofis. Pet. fice. 242. 
GRAMEN eriophorum africanum flore lanato. Pluk. Mant. — 
98. 
incetiina 
__It will be feen, on confulting the fynonyms, that this native 
of the Cape, though introduced to the Kew Garden by Mr. 
_ Masson in 1774, was long before known to a confiderable 
number of Botanifts, and it is curious to fee the different 
opinions which they entertained of it; we abide by that of 
Mr. Arron, who has called it Arifea, from the bearded ap-. 
pearance, we apprehend, of the Spathe, er, Z 
‘Itis a {mall fibrous-rooted plant, rarely exceeding when 
in bloom the height of fix or eight inches, and would be too 
infignificant for a green-houfe colleétion, were not its flowers 
of a very brilliant blue colour; indeed Mitier, who appears 
_ evidently to have cultivated it, fays, the flowers make litle 
_ appearance, and fo the plant is only kept for the fake of va- 
_mety. Di, ato. ed. 6. Ixia africana, aa eg 
