This very Jhewy Ixia, the brilliancy of whofe flowers it \i 

 impoflible to imitate by art, is a native of the Cape, and has 

 been of late years frequently imported from Holland by the 

 name of Ixia kerme/ina ,• but was, as \vc are informed by 

 Mr. Aiton, firft introduced into this country by the late 

 Dr. William Pitcairn in the year 1779. 



It varies much in the breadth and length of the fegments of 

 the limb, and in colour from a deep crimfon to a light ver- 

 miilion ; in the length and breadth of the leaves, which are 

 fometimes nearly lanceolate, at others linear-enfiform, fome- 

 times nearly equal to the ftem, fometimes not half the length. 

 Some varieties have, as in our figure, a fmall greenifli ftar 

 at the bafe, in others the colour is uniform. All are fcentlcfj 

 and flower nearly at the fame time. It varies alfo much 

 in the number of flowers, and the fcape is fometimes firople, 

 at others a little branched. 



