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. TRrANDRIA MoNnocyNIA, 
* ~~ Generic Charaer. 
Gor. 6-partita, campanulata, regularis, Stigmata 3. 
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Specific Charaéier and Synonyms. 
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IXIA longiflora foliis euiifonsiibus lineartbus fridis, tuba 
filiformi longiflimo. Ait. Kew. v. 4. p. 58.” 
GLADIOLUS Jongijlorus caule tereti, tubo longiffimo, fpathis. - 
~~. foliifque linearibus glabris. Linn, Suppl. p. 96. Gmel, ~ 
Syt. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 86. ~ 
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We are not acquainted with a trike of plants-which ftand 
_ more in need of elucidation than thofe of this genus; of the 
-vaft numbers imported from the Cape within thefe few years, 
where they are chiefly natives, and that for the moft part by 
way of Holland, few comparatively are well afcertained; fome 
of them appear fubje& to great variation, both in the fize ané 
colour of their bloffoms (whether in their wild ftate they are 
. thus inconftant, or whether there are feminal varieties raifed 
by the perfevering induftry of the Dutch Florifts, we have no 
yet had iin our power fatisfaftorily to afcertain); others like. 
the prefent one have their charagters ftrongly marked, and 
lefs variable ; in general they are plants of eafy culture, 7 
guiring chiefly to be protected from the effe&s of 
leaft degree of which is prefently fatal to moft of them. _ 
cable to this and the other Cape fpecies.. 
: According, to, the 
y Mr. Masson im the year 1774. 
It flowers from April to June, 
The treatment recommended for the Ixia flexuofa is app! 
> Hort. Kew. this {pecies was int ¢ 
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