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Ixia Crocata. Saffron-Colour'd Ixia, 

 $ ♦ $ ♦ fr $ $ ftfr 4$ 4j ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ $ ♦ ♦ t 



TRIANDRIA MoNOGYNIA f 



Generic Charatler. 

 Cor. 6-panita, campanulata, regularis. Stigmata 3. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



IXIA crocata foliis enfiformibus, floribus fecundis corollis 

 bafi hyalino-feneftratis. khunb. Dijf. de Ixia. Linn. 

 Syfi. Vdg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 85. 



IXIA crocata foliis enfiformibus, floribus alternis, tubo lon- 

 gitudine bra&earum, corollae laminis ovatis integer- 

 rimis bafi hyalinis. Ait. Hort. Kcw. p. 60. V. ft. 



IXIA planifolia, caule mukifloro fpatha breviffima. MilU 

 Ic. 160. /. 239. f. 2. 



To the Capfe of Good Hope, that never-failing fource of 

 rare and beautiful plants, we are indebted for moft of our 

 Ixias, and among others for the prefent fpecies, which though 

 not of that value, nor poffeffing the delicacy or fragrance of 

 the blolfoms of fome others, is a very defirable plant, not 

 only as an object of curiofity, from the tranfparency of the 

 bale of the corolla, but as it adds much to the brilliancy of 

 a collection, is eafily obtained, and as eafily propagated. 



It flowers in May and June, but its flowering may be 

 prolonged by putting its buSbs into pots at different periods, 

 or accelerated by artificial heat. 



It produces offsets more plentifully than many of the 

 genus. 



Mr. Aiton informs us that it was cultivated by Mr. Miller 

 in 1758, who figures it in his Icones. 



