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I.XIA BlCOLOR. RlNGENT IxiA. 



C/afs and Order. 

 Triandria Mon'ogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 6-partka patens aequalis. Stigma 3 ereftiufcula patttla. 

 Sem. fubrotunda plurima. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



IXIA licolor ; fpatha lacera, corolla-bilabiata angufta: limbo 

 tubum fubsequante : laciniis lateralibus inferioribus mi- 

 noribus convolutis ab intermedia minus profunde par- 

 titis. Gawler. 



GLADIOLUS bicolor. Thunh. Dijf. 16. t. 2. /. 1. prod. 8. 

 Jacq. Coll. Sup. 25. ic. rar. 2. /. 240. J lor/. Kezv. add. 

 481. mild. Sp. PL 1. 21 6. 



GLADIOLUS latifolius floribus claufis obfoletis ad caulem 

 villofis. Breyn. prod. fl. rar. p. 2. p. 21. /. 8. f. 2. 



GLADIOLUS villofus. Burm. prod. fl. cap. 2. 



Many of our readers will doubtlefs be furprifed to Tee this 

 plant ranked under Ixia, where indeed, as the efTential cha- 

 racter has hitherto flood, it can claim no admiffion ; but, 

 while grand/flora and its relatives are fuffered to remain, this 

 cannot be excluded without giving a fhock to natural affinity, 

 as violent to that as ufelefs to artificial fyftem, for fo com- 

 pletely do this and Ixia grandiflora of the laft number agree 

 in habit, in capfule, in feed, and in fpathe, that before the 

 corolla is expanded, or after it is wafted away, they cannot be 

 diftingui/hed from each other. From the irregularity of its 

 corolla alone it has been univerfally confidered to be a Gla- 

 diolus, from which genus it is however entirely excluded by 

 ^e corrected efTential character, as given by Mr. Gawlsr 

 [vid. 53 8 ). As this agrees with Ixja grandiflora, Imlbifera, 

 & c - io does Gladiolus fecurigera of the Bot. Mag. with 



Ixia 



