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Ixia Patens. Spreading-Flowered or 

 Crimson Ixia. 



ft ft ♦ 3 jj t p fr $ if. ft ft $ ft 4 1 ft 



CAj/jr #W Order. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler, 

 Cor. 6-partita campanulata regularis. Stigmata 3. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



IXIA patens ; tubo filiformi, limbo campanulato-patente : 

 laciniis oblongis, filamentis coar&atis ere&is, ftigmatis 

 laciniis antheras fubasquantibus. Gawler En/at. African* 

 inedit. 



IXIA patens foliis fubenfiformibus glabris, racemo terminal^ 

 corollis campanulatis patulis : laciniis alternis anguft- 

 ioribus, filamentis ere&is. Aiton Hort. Kew, /. i« 



P- 59- 



IXIA arijlata. Scbnev. Icon. tab. 32. 



IXIA fiaccida. Salijb. prodrom. 35. 



IXIA coucoler. Ibid. 96. 1 . . 3 



IXIA conica. Ibid. 36. / an hu J US vanetates ? 



In this very numerous family, in which even the limits of 

 the genus are as yet far from being well afcertained, there is 

 often great difficulty in tracing out the fynonyms of preceding 

 authors. In this inftance we acknowledge ourfelves entirely 

 indebted to John Bellenden Gawler, Efq. from whofe 

 labours we may foon expeft to fee this difficult fubjeft elu- 

 cidated, as he is about to publifh a new arrangement of the 

 natural order of Enfatae. 



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