from a foot to four feet high, hranched or fimple, with from fix to thirty 

 flowers in a fpike, Spathie membranous, three times lhorter or nearly 

 equalling the tube on the fame plant, outer valve acute and entire, or 

 blunt and toothed. Tube capillary, one to three times fhorter than the 

 limb, which is from campanulate patent. Segments oblong, more or 

 lefs inclined to oval or Lmcealate, inner ones narrower and more acute. 

 Filaments from upright patent, (hotter than the anthers, which are 

 linear, with a fubfagittate bale. Scentlefi. 



Found by Thumb erg flowering in Oclober by the fides 

 of rivers a::d brooks in the Roode Zand Valley, many days 

 journey from Cape-Town. Had we feen none but the large 

 fub- variety (if we may fo call it) common in our gardens, we 

 might poffibly have been led to have confidered our plant as 

 a feparate fpecies ; but during the infpeEtion of fome hundreos 

 of fpontaneous and garden fpecimens, we have feen it in all 

 the phafes ufual to this changeable fpecies ; as alfo without the 

 ftain, which, as ereffa differs only from maculata by the large 

 ftain at the bafe, mud be referred to the former. It propa- 

 gates freely both by feeds and offsets, is not very tender, 

 never expands but in clear weather and when protected from 

 the wind. Preserves its beauty if carefully dried. 



Although the eflential charaQer of Ixia, as above given, 

 confiderably reduces the heterogeneous mafs that has hitherto 

 incumbered this genus, as will be feen by the following 

 fynoptic view of the fpecies which will rank under it, we ftiJJ 

 fufpea that fome of the feBions muft be hereafter feparated 

 into diftinft genera, before a completely determinate effential 

 character is formed. Undefcribed fpecies, which are numer- 

 ous in our gardens, are not inferted. Thofe for which no 

 authority is cited, areas they Hand in Willdenow's edition 

 of the Species Plantarum, 



iXIiE SYNOPSIS. GAWLERtnedit. 



.i Se8. i. Antheris brevitfimis conniventibus i fu'gmatibus tn* 

 fundibulijormibus y hianlibus. 



Ixia fcHIaris ». /3. (fpeciefne diftinQs ?) 



Scft. 2. Um'-bi flora ; Umbo fubglobofo-catnpanulato, tid°J er 

 nulla : b'ulbo carnofo tunica tenui vejlito. 



lxi a crateroides, Bot. Repot, t. 18S. 



Sea 3- 



