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Ixia Capillaris (var. y.) Gracillima. 

 Slender Ixia, . 

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Clafs and Order. 



Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. — Fid. No. 566, 



Specif c Characler and Synonyms. 



IXIA capillaris fpatha fcariofa 5-ftriata divaricata, tubo et 

 fauce turbinato-continuis fubfulcato-angulatis, laciniis 

 linean-oblongis, antheris conniventibus fligmata fub- 

 aequ?mibus. G. 



{«) Gracillima^ foliis linearibus anguftiffimis non marginatis j 

 fpatha tubum fuperante. G. 



IXIA gracilis. Salijb. Prod. Hort. 37. n 22. ? 



(j3'j Capil'aus; foliis rartilagineo-marginat is, ramulis 1-3 floris 

 racemofo-digeflis; fpatha tubum iuperante. G. 



IXIA capillaris. Linn. Suppl. 92. Thunb. Dijf. 12. /. 2./. 2. 

 prod. 9. Man. £j>y?. Vegetab. 84. Gffltf/. tyy?. AW. 109. 



mud. sp. pi. 1. 201. 



IXIA lan<ea. Jacq. Coll. Suppl. 13. Ic.rar. 2. 281. Nee vero 



Thunbergii. 

 (7) ^aZ/Va _; robuftior, ramis multifioris, fpatha tubo fub- 



aequata. G. 

 IXIA aulica. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 57. G^f/. Syjl. Nat. 109, 



#•?//</. 6>. PI. 1. 207. 

 W hcarnata ; praecedentis magnitudine, tubo et fauce ex cy- 



lindrico angufte turbinatis fpatha multo longioribus, 



limbo hypocrateriformi-patente. G. 

 IXIA incarnata. Jacq. Coll. Suppl. 13. ic. rar. 2. /. 282. IVilld, 



Sp. PL 1. 201. 



Outer valve of the fpathe fubtruncate, ftreaked with three 

 brown riblike veins ending in three fhort teeth. Segments of 

 the corolla ftriped with three longitudinal darker coloured 

 veins. Our variety has frequently a {lender hair-like one- 

 JWered branch, giving the ftem an appearance of being 

 forked. In a fucceeding number |3 and <F will be given in one 

 plate, y we have never feen in bloom, but in the Bankfian 



Herbarium 



