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Ixia Falcata. Sickle-Leaved Ixia. 

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 Triandria Monogynia, 



Generic Cbaratler. 



Spatha 2-valvis. Cor. bafi tubulofa, tubus gracilis, limbus 

 6-partuus, regularis (rariffime fubirregularis) fubsequalis patens. 

 fit. limbo plureis breviora, re&o-patemia, vei coar&ato-erecla. 

 % w - 3» patentia. Setn. nuraerofa globofa. G. 



*?' 549. "» Char. Ess. lap/u calami pojl « limbus" COTr/Trnwi' " 6. 

 partitus." ^ <■«£«« A"/. ,556, apud Erratum, pro *« excifis" Jfe« 



" divifis." * 



Specific Character and Synonyms* 



IXIA falcata / fpatha herbacea ftriata, corolla ere£la : laciniis 

 ovalibus concavis, antheris horizontalibus, ftigmatibus 

 ufque tubum divifis longis effufis proftratis curvatis. G. 



IXIA falcata. Linn. Suppl. 92. Thunb. Diff. n. 23. />ra/. 10. 

 JV//<rr. ^jy?. Jv£. 85. Gw/. *Sj>y? i\fe/. 110. Hon. Kew. 

 addend. Jaca. ic. rar. 2. /. 276. Coll. 4. 183. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. 1. p. 207. 



IXIA cinnamomea. JBot. Rep. tab. 44. ejufquc Recenf. n. 2. 



Bulb about the fize of a large pea, campaniform, bafe flat, 

 tunrcs brown, thefe in old plants are placed imbricately one 

 ov er the other 10 — 15 deep, which gives the bulb the appear- 

 ance of being greatly larger than it really is ; we have feen them 

 thus piled nearly an inch high. Leaves 3 — 4, alternate, enfiform, 

 * r °m three inches to a foot long, nerved-ftriated, two lower 

 ones . nearly oppofite, reflex-falcate (fometimes almoft ftraight) 

 c auhne ones fiftulofely fhcathing, compreffedly-ancipital, re- 

 j?°te, longer, often edged with a membranous pellucid ferrately 

 ^abrous margin. Stem from fix inches to a foot high, lax, 

 Jmple, or with ax ju ar y branches, generally three or four times 

 J>nger than the leaves, upright. Flowers 5—20, ere£t, be- 

 ginning to expand a little before funfet, when they diffufe a 



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