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 Ixia Radiata. Nodding-Flowered Ixia. 



Gfa/} ok^ Order. 



T R J A N DRJ.A M O X O G Y N I A. 



Generic Char-after, — Vid. No. 566. 



Specify Character and Synonyms. 



IXIA radiata; foliis fiftulofis deorfum vaginanter teretibus 



exinde compreflb-plams Iincaribus, fpathis adprefiis, 



corollis certiuis : limbo retrofJexo, ftigmaiibus flexuofo- 



torris depcndentibus longis. G. 



IXIA radiata. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. i. 280. C0U.Suppl.15. Willd. 



Sp. PL v. 1. 202. cxclufo Ixia fetacea in Syn. 

 GLADIOLUS recurvus. Thunb. Dijf. p. 9. n. 3. depidfis fy- 

 nonymis. prod. 8. Herb. Linn, maim jilii fubferiptus, Jed 

 a Gladiolo recur vo patris prorfus alienus. 

 IXIA jijhdofa. Bo t. Rep. tab. 59, ejus Recenf. Ixia radiata. 

 & 4pg*ft<i foliis anguitioribus limbo fubnutante uniformiter 



albo. G. 

 JXIA angufta. JVilld. Sp. PL 1. 202. bidicifque ' univerf. in 



coll. Jacq. apudfnppl. 

 -*XIA linearis. Jacq. coll. 4. p. 183. ic. rar. t. 279. ubi Icon 

 bulbum jam vetujhtm tunicis numerous plurimo or dine fu- 

 perfirutlis obieclum fifth ) a Hayne apud. 'Term. Bot. 

 tab. 5. //; radicationis exemplo mutuatum. G. 

 \y) Caricina foliis angufiiffimis fcapo capillar!. G. Herb. Bank/1 



What has been faid of the buib in the article of Ixia falcata, 

 Y°* 5^8, will apply to this ; obferving, that when we fpeak of 

 the fize of a bulb it is meant without its tunics, otherwife all 

 Qefcription of it as to fize and form would be ufelefs, as thefe 

 often increafe according to the age of the plant, and vary, ac- 

 cording to this increafe, in outward appearance ; but the bulb 

 oeing produced yearly within them is generally nearly of the 

 a me f lze> tne ]J one perifhing either in part or altogether. 

 Reaves 3 — 4, gradually longer, fiftular, round till they are 

 Pureed for the cmiffion of the fcape, from thence they are 



flattened, 



