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 Trichonema Cruciatum. Channel- 

 Leaved Trichonema. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Triandria Mokogynia. 



Generic Char a tier. 



Spatha bivalvis : valvulis lanceolatis acuminatis integris. 

 Cor. 6-partita jequalis tubo brevifmno. Pit. ere&a, pilofa, 

 brevia. Stigm. 3, bipartita. Setn. plurima, rotunda. G. 



Obs. BuJbit s conicus baft oblique femitruncatus, radicem defcendentem 

 trajjam carnofam demittens. Scapus teres jub fiorejcentla f aphis fubterraneus ; 

 jamprimum Jub fruclificationee terra proveniens, furfum in ramus binosfemi- 

 ierefes, folio longiori Jlipulatos, bipartitus. Vid. Bot. Rep. tab. 170. quet 

 jpeaes adhucdum fori f era fcapum jamemifit. Ramus alter Jape deficit. Genus 

 Croco maxime ajfine. G. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms, 



TRICHONEMA cruciatum; foliis fubtetraquetris utrinque 

 tricoftatis : cofta media elcvata lafiore, 

 coroliis ere&is : laciniis acutis recurvo- 

 patentibus, antherisftigmataasquantibu?. G. 



IXIA cmciata, Jacq. ic. rar. 2. /. 200. Coll. Suppl.. p. 16. 

 Wild. Sp. PL 1. 197. 



IXIA Bulbocoditm, var. 7. coroliis rbfcis. Tbunb. Diffl 3. 



IXIA rofea |3. ' Herb. Bank/. 



Dr. Dryander, by a manufcript note in the Hort. Kcw, 

 of the Bankfian library, has mod didinclly fettled the dif- 

 ference between the Ixia rofea of the Cape (publifhed already 

 in this work, No. 265, by Mr. Curtis, under the name of 

 Ixia Bulbocodium) and the real Ixia Bttlbocodium i an Euro- 

 pean fpecies. To the firft our plant approaches very clofely, 

 but we follow Jacquin in making it a diftinft fpecies, as 

 we believe it to be ; befides fome difference in the form of the 

 leaves and Item, the fpathe of this is more membranaceous, 



the 



