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Ixia Fistulosa. Hollow-Leaved Ixia. 



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Oafs and Order. 

 Triandria Monocynia. 



Generic Char after. 

 tor. 6-partita campanulata regularis. Stigmata 3. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



IXIA fiflulofa; foliis teretibus fifiulofis obtufiffirnis innonu- 



mucronatis, fcapo flexuofo, floribus Ipifcatis diflichi.s. 

 IXIA t ere ti folia. Herbar. Banks. 



GLADIOLUS fifulcfus fpica difticba foliis teretibus fillulofi^. 

 Jacq. Hon. Schocnbr. torn. i. tab* 16. 



The Ixia fiflulofa of the Botanift's repofitory having been 

 already figured by [acquin, and called radiata, ought to 

 retain that name*; we therefore feel ourfelvcs at liberty to 

 adopt this, although for a very different plant. We have 

 rather ranked it with Ixia than Gladiolus, becaufe of the 

 near affinity it bears to the Ixia fpicata and plantaginea of 

 Willdenow, which is fo great as to require feeing them all 

 ,r > a living ftate to determine whether the three are really 

 diflincl or merely varieties of each other. It agrees too with 

 the character of this genus in the regularity of the corolla, 

 an d in not having the filaments and ftyle bent down as in 

 Gladiolus. 



It grows from a fmall round bulb, which is covered with a 

 brown fibrous coat; the leaves are perfectly fmooth, round, 



* Vide Recenfio Plant. Repofit. Botanic. No. 4. 



inflated, 



